Underground - Chapter One Posted!

Finally, after some minor glitches with the website (I’m only beginning to speak computer!), the first chapter of Underground, “Too Young,” is available on my website.  You're invited to read it at www.cmgbooks.com/5.html, and to respond to it using the comments feature on this blog.  Thanks to everyone who helped to get this chapter edited and posted.  I hope you enjoy it, and look forward to your comments.

Upcoming Conference

I'm very excited to have the opportunity to attend a writers' conference in Niagara Falls next weekend.  I'll be missing two of my law classes for it, which, for the child of two teachers, is a pretty big deal!  There's been a lot of prep work for this event—not the least of which is having completed several drafts of Beyond Reason, the book I will get the chance to pitch to New York editors and agents. 

Beyond Reason has been a work in progress for four years.  It began as a short story in Carolyn Smart’s class, “Creative Writing in Prose,” and developed into a collection of five.  They follow the lives of two foster brothers through the last fifteen years of the seventeenth century.  The stories are primarily set in southern England, and I was lucky enough to be able to visit most of the locations during an exchange to the University of Aberdeen two years ago.  For a brief synopsis of Beyond Reason, visit www.cmgbooks.com/3.html.  

The collection has been critiqued in its entirety by the Kingston Writers’ Circle, and in part by the Brooklyn Fiction Writers’ Circle and the University of Aberdeen Creative Writing Society.  I also owe thanks to the folks at Effective Editing, who helped me iron out what I hope will be the last of the grammar problems.  

I’ll keep you posted on the results of this conference.

Underground Update

Underground originally started out as a short story.  Told in less than 2500 words, the piece just didn’t seem to give the characters enough time to fully develop.  Thus began Underground the novel.  I’m working on Chapter One at the moment, squeezing in research on historic Kingston, Ontario whenever I can.  I hope to have the first chapter posted within the next week or so at www.cmgbooks.com/5.html.  There's about a page left to write, and then I'll have to edit it all, but it's definitely close.  Check back soon!

Who is CMG?

I am currently a second-year law student, intending to practice in the area of copyright after graduation and licensing.  Between reading cases and studying contracts (mostly when I should be sleeping), I write.  Mainly my focus is on historical fiction, but you’ll find me scribbling away on a variety of topics in a variety of genres.  

 

The three pseudonyms I use—Croft, Morgan, Glynn—each correspond to a different style of writing—realistic, historical fiction, and fantasy, respectively.  You can find my work in journals like Ars Medica, published by the University of Toronto Press, and The Lamp, published by the Society of Graduate and Professional Students at Queen’s University in Kingston.  For a complete list of my publications, or to read synopses of my works in progress, check out

http://www.cmgbooks.com/.

Welcome!

This is the blog of Canadian author Susan Croft, alias G.L. Morgan, alias E.S. Glynn (CMG). 

Here you will find updates on the progress of my current work, and be able to comment on my serial novel, Underground, which is coming soon at www.cmgbooks.com/5.html.  Thanks for visiting and check back soon!