Susanna Solomon

Paris Beckons

I'd visited Europe with my parents as a child, as a tourist, years ago, but when I went back to Paris in my mid sixties, I hardly expected to run into them again, long gone, my mother holding my hand as we looked over at the Seine, my father extolling me to pay attention to Art when I visited the Picasso Museum. This is the derivation of my fourth book, Paris Beckons, a collection of short stories set in Paris.

Here's what the reviewers say:

Evocative and personal, heart-wrenching and illuminating, Susanna Solomon’s Paris Beckons showcases 34 stories revealing what lies beneath our deepest fears and memories. Poignant and for those with pasts that refuse to remain buried.

Cara Black, author of the award winning Aimee LeDuc Mystery Series

Often heart-rending, sometimes surreal but always intriguing, Solomon’s A Night Train to Paris transports the reader to amazing places in and around Paris and in and around the human heart.

JT Morrow

Susanna Solomon’s fantastical musings reveal a clandestine Paris of temptation, imagination and unease—ghostly “Shakespeare & Company,” time-bending “The Clock,” Twilight-Zone-esque “The Teddy Bear,” and Oscar-Wilde-reminiscent “Hello, Human.” Other tales derail the mind’s comfort zones—risky soul-searching in “Among My Own Kind,” braving Parisian streets as a first-time motorcyclist in “Julia,” and communing with a Musee D’Orsay sculpture which thinks outside the box in “The Dancer.” Deft, whimsical, with the hovering shadow of a domineering father, these stories rank among Solomon’s best.

--J.Macon King, Mill Valley Literary Review. Author of Circus of the Sun, and Drinking with a Dead Cat.

My other books include a novel, Montana Rhapsody, the story of a pole dancer, a farmer and a river, and two collections of short stories, inspired by actual sheriff's calls in the West Marin newspaper, the Point Reyes Light.

My second collection of short stories, More Point Reyes Sheriff's Calls, was released in 2016. A reprint of my first collection, Point Reyes Sheriff's Calls, first printed in 2013, continues to sell well.

Hot off the Airwaves. You can hear me reading stories from Point Reyes Sheriff's Calls on iTunes on KRCB's "Word by Word" hosted by Gil Mansergh on episode 17. And you can hear me reading "Homecoming" from the 10th annual Redwood Writers Anthology. Here are the links: ..https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/march-2-2014-sebastopol-documentary/id514744798?i=274438468&mt=2

and https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/10th-annual-redwood-writers/id514744798?i=352226929&mt=2

For interviews with my characters, short story excerpts, author biography, and a gallery of photos about Montana and Point Reyes and Paris, please visit my website at:

susannasolomon.com.

When Susanna read her first short story about the day nothing happened in West Marin, called "Sheriff's Calls", to a packed house at Pints 'N Prose in Fairfax, California, the house exploded with laughter. Now, onto something, she used the sheriff's calls entries in the "Point Reyes Light" as inspiration for more. Susanna asks, "How can I run out of material with the intriguing people of West Marin, California as my inspiration?" Her collection of short stories, entitled "Point Reyes Sheriff's Calls", has been published December 2013 by HD Media Press.

Her success with short story writing came as a complete surprise after over twenty-five years of struggling with writing novels and memoirs.

When she's not writing, she's running her own electrical engineering business.

For samples from Point Reyes Sheriff's Calls, an interactive map of photos of where in Point Reyes her stories take place and more about Susanna, visit: www.susannasolomon.com