“The well springs of the creative life are deep inside each of us” - therefore, we must “tap” into that river.The single most important question a novelist should ask is: “What does my character want?” That thing will then become the driving force of the book.The quality of a writer’s work directly correlates to how much the writer pays attention.Sue’s website features some timeless insights on her writing. Sue’s newest book, Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story, co-authored with her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor debuted September 8, 2009, appearing on numerous bestseller lists, including the New York Times Bestseller List
A compilation of inspirational stories, spiritual essays, and meditations, it has been translated into several languages and has over 200,000 copies in print. Sue’s second novel, The Mermaid Chair, has sold nearly 2 million copies since its publication by Viking in the Spring of 2005.įirstlight, a collection of the author’s early writings, was released by Guideposts Books in 2006 and Penguin in 2007. The Secret Life of Bees has sold more than 6 million copies, spent over 2 ½ years on the New York Times bestseller list and been published in 35 countries.
The novel tells the story of fourteen year old Lily, who runs away with her black housekeeper in 1964 in South Carolina, and of the sanctuary they find in the home of three beekeeping sisters. She was born in Albany, Georgia, and raised in the tiny town of Sylvester, Georgia.When her first novel, The Secret Life of Bees was published by Viking in 2002, it became a genuine literary phenomenon. Sue Monk Kidd is a writer, novelist and memoirist.
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