Interview: Susan Wingate, Author of Spider Brains: A Love Story

Most recently, Susan Wingate’s novels, Spider Brains and Drowning each reached Amazon Bestseller status in 2012. Drowning won the 2011 Forward National Literature Award for Drama. She would love for you to read her books. You can find them all under the tab on this site labeled “Books.”

Ms. Wingate has written 11 novels, two short story collections, a few plays, one screenplay and tons of poems. Her latest 2011 novel Drowning  (contemporary women’s fiction), won 1st place in the 2011 Forward National Literature Award and also won a finalist award for the category of Women’s Fiction/Chick Lit in the 2011 International Book Awards. A vibrant public speaker, Susan Wingate offers inspiring, motivational talks about the craft of writing, publishing, and marketing, and how to survive this extremely volatile (e-)Publishing industry. She presents these lectures for private groups and at writing conferences, libraries and bookstores around the country.

Readers can learn more about Susan Wingate by visiting the following link:

Website ~ Facebook ~ Twitter ~ Amazon Page

Could you please tell us a bit about your book? The story? The characters?

I'd love to. Well, if one were to bake the story Spider Brains into a cake, they should sprinkle in Charlotte’s Web, toss in one Jellicle Cat, then stir in a little Spiderman—but as a girl and not in that goofy latex outfit! A tale of hope, transformation, transition and inspiration.

After her father’s death last year and, now, in the throes of a gnarly teacher’s whim, a small black arachnid bites fifteen-year-old Susie Speider on the finger. The bite sends her nights into fantastical dreams about taking revenge on the teacher who, ultimately, holds her college aspirations in the palm of her cold calloused hand. But after Susie figures out the dreams are real, she begins visiting the teacher regularly… as the spider! And, oh, by the way! Who is that boy spider munching on flies, hiding over there in the corner?

Article Author: April Pohren

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