Susan Shapiro
@profsue123.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author of books my family hates and "Instant Gratification Takes Too Long" writing prof now teaching on Zoom.
Happy Thanksgiving! My latest piece, thanks to great Salon editors Joseph Neese Kelly McClure Erin Keane & shrinks who shared their wisdom Justena Kavanagh Diana Kirschner Carlos Saavedra Vélez Vatsal G. Thakkar, M.D. Kristen Underhill Welch & FCW!
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How to step up self-care over the holidays
Mental-health experts offer practical strategies to help make the season calmer and more manageable.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! My latest piece, thanks to great Salon editors Joseph Neese Kelly McClure Erin Keane & shrinks who shared their wisdom Justena Kavanagh Diana Kirschner Carlos Saavedra Vélez Vatsal G. Thakkar, M.D. Kristen Underhill Welch & FCW!
www.salon.com/2025/11/26/1...
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❤️celebrating brilliant new📚by @melissafraterrigo (THE PERILS OF GIRLHOOD) @jcsnuggy (A TEMPORARY DWELLING) @victorpineiro (THE ISLAND OF FORGOTTEN GODS) @clarenceahaynes (THE GHOSTS OF GWENDOLYN MONTGOMERY) @davidmargolick (WHEN CAESAR WAS KING) & @lauriestories Gwen (THE AVIATOR & THE SHOWMAN)!
November 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
❤️celebrating brilliant new📚by @melissafraterrigo (THE PERILS OF GIRLHOOD) @jcsnuggy (A TEMPORARY DWELLING) @victorpineiro (THE ISLAND OF FORGOTTEN GODS) @clarenceahaynes (THE GHOSTS OF GWENDOLYN MONTGOMERY) @davidmargolick (WHEN CAESAR WAS KING) & @lauriestories Gwen (THE AVIATOR & THE SHOWMAN)!
Here's the tape to my inspiring Secrets to Land a Book Deal Panel! youtu.be/NhJRLOAGrMw
Secrets to Landing a Book Deal Panel - 10/25/25
YouTube video by Susan Shapiro
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October 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Here's the tape to my inspiring Secrets to Land a Book Deal Panel! youtu.be/NhJRLOAGrMw
In my inspiring free zoom SECRETS TO LAND A BOOK DEAL PANEL tomorrow Sat 10/25 at 6 pm EST, 11 former students reveal how they recently landed #book deals in 10 different genres #fiction #nonfiction #memoir #essays #kidlit #anthology #selfhelp #biography #shortstories
October 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
In my inspiring free zoom SECRETS TO LAND A BOOK DEAL PANEL tomorrow Sat 10/25 at 6 pm EST, 11 former students reveal how they recently landed #book deals in 10 different genres #fiction #nonfiction #memoir #essays #kidlit #anthology #selfhelp #biography #shortstories
❤️ brilliant new📚by Cleyvis Natera (THE GRAND PALOMA RESORT) Eskor David Johnson (PAY AS YOU GO) Harold Rogers (TROPICALIA) Hyeseung Song (DOCILE) Gayle Kirschenbaum (FROM BULLIED TO BESTIES) Kelly Sullivan Walden (DREAMIFESTING) & Timothy Latterner's THE BOWERY REVIEW comedy magazine!
October 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
❤️ brilliant new📚by Cleyvis Natera (THE GRAND PALOMA RESORT) Eskor David Johnson (PAY AS YOU GO) Harold Rogers (TROPICALIA) Hyeseung Song (DOCILE) Gayle Kirschenbaum (FROM BULLIED TO BESTIES) Kelly Sullivan Walden (DREAMIFESTING) & Timothy Latterner's THE BOWERY REVIEW comedy magazine!
When life gave me 🍋 I pitched the NYT THE SECRET ROOTS OF ROOT CANALS! Thanks to great editor Julia Calderone experts Saul Pressner Michael Sosnay Rico Short & all the doctors who shared smart quotes! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/w...
How to Avoid a Root Canal
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September 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
When life gave me 🍋 I pitched the NYT THE SECRET ROOTS OF ROOT CANALS! Thanks to great editor Julia Calderone experts Saul Pressner Michael Sosnay Rico Short & all the doctors who shared smart quotes! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/w...
Excited for my free NYU Secrets of Publishing panel Wednesday 9/24 with luminaries: author Mateo Askaripour, agents Kate McKean Landon, Pronoy Sarkar & Matthew Carnicelli, editors Sarah Robbins, Lee Oglesby & Jesse David Register for tickets here: www.nyubookstoreevents.com/.../free-sec....
September 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Excited for my free NYU Secrets of Publishing panel Wednesday 9/24 with luminaries: author Mateo Askaripour, agents Kate McKean Landon, Pronoy Sarkar & Matthew Carnicelli, editors Sarah Robbins, Lee Oglesby & Jesse David Register for tickets here: www.nyubookstoreevents.com/.../free-sec....
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Join P&T Knitwear and PEN America on 9/8 as author Susan Shapiro (@profsue123.bsky.social) reveals the SECRETS OF PUBLISHING, with panelists: Miya Lee, Alia Hannah Habib, Paul Whitlatch, Rachel Kahan, Krishan Trotman, and Rob Cameron. Click for details and tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/back-to-sc...
September 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Join P&T Knitwear and PEN America on 9/8 as author Susan Shapiro (@profsue123.bsky.social) reveals the SECRETS OF PUBLISHING, with panelists: Miya Lee, Alia Hannah Habib, Paul Whitlatch, Rachel Kahan, Krishan Trotman, and Rob Cameron. Click for details and tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/back-to-sc...
New Washington Post piece thanks to Allison Klein & sages: Dr. Diana Doreen Oliver Esther Perel Vatsal Thakkar, Jerry Portwood, Manny Mandel, Kristin Underhill, FCW, Patty Gross & Valerie Wilson Wesley ❤️ readers sharing their own advice! Anything to add? www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
I asked relationship experts what makes marriage last. Here’s what they said.
Advice includes: Love your spouse as they are, not who you hope they’ll be. Talk about sex. Don’t try to win arguments.
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July 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
New Washington Post piece thanks to Allison Klein & sages: Dr. Diana Doreen Oliver Esther Perel Vatsal Thakkar, Jerry Portwood, Manny Mandel, Kristin Underhill, FCW, Patty Gross & Valerie Wilson Wesley ❤️ readers sharing their own advice! Anything to add? www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
Celebrating brilliant new 📚 by Honor Jones (SLEEP) Susan Morrison (LORNE) Jonathan Conyers (I WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE HERE) Regina Porter (THE RICH PEOPLE HAVE GONE AWAY) Henry Alford (I DREAM OF JONI) Cathy Linh Che (BECOMING GHOST) & Phillip Lopate (MY AFFAIR WITH ART HOUSE CINEMA)
June 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Celebrating brilliant new 📚 by Honor Jones (SLEEP) Susan Morrison (LORNE) Jonathan Conyers (I WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE HERE) Regina Porter (THE RICH PEOPLE HAVE GONE AWAY) Henry Alford (I DREAM OF JONI) Cathy Linh Che (BECOMING GHOST) & Phillip Lopate (MY AFFAIR WITH ART HOUSE CINEMA)
❤️ celebrating new 📚 by Honor Jones (SLEEP) Susan Morrison (LORNE)Jonathan Conyers (I WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE HERE) Regina Porter(THE RICH PEOPLE HAVE GONE AWAY) Cathy Linh Che (BECOMING GHOST) Henry Alford (I DREAM OF JONI) Phillip Lopate (MY AFFAIR WITH ART HOUSE CINEMA) Buy-read-post-pitch-review!
June 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
❤️ celebrating new 📚 by Honor Jones (SLEEP) Susan Morrison (LORNE)Jonathan Conyers (I WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE HERE) Regina Porter(THE RICH PEOPLE HAVE GONE AWAY) Cathy Linh Che (BECOMING GHOST) Henry Alford (I DREAM OF JONI) Phillip Lopate (MY AFFAIR WITH ART HOUSE CINEMA) Buy-read-post-pitch-review!
Honored to have a piece in Zibby Owens' Substack ON BEING JEWISH NOW launched by her anthology (18 weeks on USA Today's Bestseller list!) inspired by pieces by Nicole Bokat, Ruth Bonapace, Amy Klein Judy Batalion, Brenda Janowitz Alix Strauss & others! onbeingjewishnow.substack.com/p/wounded-i-...
Wounded I Am More Awake
A brush with Covid brought me closer to spirituality
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May 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Honored to have a piece in Zibby Owens' Substack ON BEING JEWISH NOW launched by her anthology (18 weeks on USA Today's Bestseller list!) inspired by pieces by Nicole Bokat, Ruth Bonapace, Amy Klein Judy Batalion, Brenda Janowitz Alix Strauss & others! onbeingjewishnow.substack.com/p/wounded-i-...
Here's my new @washingtonpost.com Mother's Day piece thanks to my great editors & Hope Edelman, Vatsal Thakkar, Carlos Saavedra Velez, Justena Kavanagh, Juan Gaddis, Jackie Roberts, Haig Chahinian & FCW for sharing their wisdom!
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
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Guest column | If Mother’s Day makes you blue, consider these coping strategies
Many people without children, in nontraditional families, or whose mothers have died or aren’t close to them have a hard time with the holiday.
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May 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Here's my new @washingtonpost.com Mother's Day piece thanks to my great editors & Hope Edelman, Vatsal Thakkar, Carlos Saavedra Velez, Justena Kavanagh, Juan Gaddis, Jackie Roberts, Haig Chahinian & FCW for sharing their wisdom!
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
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On April 22, NBCC member @profsue123.bsky.social will be moderating the Secrets of Publishing panel, featuring @aliahanna.bsky.social, @katemckean.bsky.social, Pronoy Sarkar; Emi Ikkanda, Krishan Trotman, and Lester Fabian Braithwaite, at P&T Knitwear in New York at 6:30 p.m:
Secrets of Publishing Panel
Hosted by Susan Shapiro, & presented in partnership with PEN America
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April 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
On April 22, NBCC member @profsue123.bsky.social will be moderating the Secrets of Publishing panel, featuring @aliahanna.bsky.social, @katemckean.bsky.social, Pronoy Sarkar; Emi Ikkanda, Krishan Trotman, and Lester Fabian Braithwaite, at P&T Knitwear in New York at 6:30 p.m:
❤️ celebrating brilliant new 📚 by Michelle Adams (THE CONTAINMENT) Edgar Gomez (ALLIGATOR TEARS) Kevin Nguyen (MY DOCUMENTS) Peter Trachtenberg (THE TWILIGHT OF BOHEMIA & former students Michelle Jungmin Bang (SUN & SSUKGAT) & Alyson Gerber (THE LIAR'S SOCIETY) thanks to Posman Books!
April 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
❤️ celebrating brilliant new 📚 by Michelle Adams (THE CONTAINMENT) Edgar Gomez (ALLIGATOR TEARS) Kevin Nguyen (MY DOCUMENTS) Peter Trachtenberg (THE TWILIGHT OF BOHEMIA & former students Michelle Jungmin Bang (SUN & SSUKGAT) & Alyson Gerber (THE LIAR'S SOCIETY) thanks to Posman Books!
Happy Valentine's Day! My latest in @washpost.bsky.social mixes ForgivenessTour with 5Menwhobrokemy❤️ www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
Guest column | When love isn’t in the air: How to move past a broken heart
No matter how long ago the damage happened, it’s never too late to reframe the story and consider forgiveness.
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February 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Happy Valentine's Day! My latest in @washpost.bsky.social mixes ForgivenessTour with 5Menwhobrokemy❤️ www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
You can still register for my exciting zoom Secrets of Book Publishing panel tomorrow WEDNESDAY 1/22 AT 7 PM EST with amazing editors, agents & authors. Email me at Profsue123@gmail.com if you need a free student comp
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January 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
You can still register for my exciting zoom Secrets of Book Publishing panel tomorrow WEDNESDAY 1/22 AT 7 PM EST with amazing editors, agents & authors. Email me at Profsue123@gmail.com if you need a free student comp
www.eventbrite.com/e/secrets-of...
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Here's my zoom SECRETS OF LANDING A BOOK DEAL PANEL thanks to David Levine, Jennifer Cable & former students with brilliant new books out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3wF...
Secrets of Landing a Book Deal: Jan 6 Zoom Panel
YouTube video by SWINY
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January 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Here's my zoom SECRETS OF LANDING A BOOK DEAL PANEL thanks to David Levine, Jennifer Cable & former students with brilliant new books out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3wF...
At least I got a (hopefully) humorous piece out of the deal - and a few more good Unhooked reviews on Amazon thanks to Robert Lee Brewer & Amy Jones at Writer's Digest! www.writersdigest.com/getting-publ...
Unhooking in the New Year: Finding Someone Has Taken Your Book
Author Susan Shapiro shares her experience of dealing with a new book that looked and sounded strikingly similar to her own, including her initial reaction and eventual resolution for the new year.
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January 15, 2025 at 7:03 AM
At least I got a (hopefully) humorous piece out of the deal - and a few more good Unhooked reviews on Amazon thanks to Robert Lee Brewer & Amy Jones at Writer's Digest! www.writersdigest.com/getting-publ...
Check out The @nytimes.com oped FOR MANY OF US, JAN. 6 NEVER ENDED by Aquilino Gonell my hero coauthor of American Shield: The Immigrant Sergeant Who Defended Democracy (on CNN & MSNBC tomorrow) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/o...
Opinion | What I Saw on Jan. 6 Still Haunts Me
Donald Trump is promising to pardon Jan. 6 rioters. But we can’t let him rewrite history.
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January 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Check out The @nytimes.com oped FOR MANY OF US, JAN. 6 NEVER ENDED by Aquilino Gonell my hero coauthor of American Shield: The Immigrant Sergeant Who Defended Democracy (on CNN & MSNBC tomorrow) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/o...
Happy to hear my piece in The Girlfriend was in their best of the year roundup thanks to Shelley Emling! www.thegirlfriend.com/health/the-o...
The One Lifestyle Tweak That Helped Me Lose A Ton Of Weight
It's so simple but so effective.
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December 28, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Happy to hear my piece in The Girlfriend was in their best of the year roundup thanks to Shelley Emling! www.thegirlfriend.com/health/the-o...
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Our first episode was with the inimitable @profsue123.bsky.social. @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social, Brianna Avenia-Tapper, & @ajfields.bsky.social talk with Susan Shapiro about infertility, publishing, & Sergeant Aquilino Gonell's American Shield.
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Did I marry the wrong person? Talking infertility with Susan Shapiro
Holly Rizzuto Palker, Brianna Avenia-Tapper, and Amanda Fields talk with Susan Shapiro, an award-winning writer and professor.
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December 9, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Our first episode was with the inimitable @profsue123.bsky.social. @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social, Brianna Avenia-Tapper, & @ajfields.bsky.social talk with Susan Shapiro about infertility, publishing, & Sergeant Aquilino Gonell's American Shield.
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Excited for my free zoom publishing panel this Saturday with luminary editors, agents & authors. To RSVP, email me at Profsue123@gmail.com
November 13, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Excited for my free zoom publishing panel this Saturday with luminary editors, agents & authors. To RSVP, email me at Profsue123@gmail.com