Susan Spann & 100 Summits
This time, a special conversation with former Writer of the Year Susan Spann—currently immersed in a non-fiction project in Japan.
Susan is in the middle of a personal journey, one she is documenting for a book based on her ascents up the 100 highest summits in the land of rising sun.
The adventure is based, in Susan’s own words, on the desire to stop doing what was safe and what was expected of her.
Well, mission accomplished.
But the planning and work to move from California to Japan hit a major hurdle when Susan was diagnosed with cancer. Undaunted, Susan forged through months of cancer treatments and even visa issues and today is travelling all over Japan conquering summits and recording her climbs for the book.
Work on the non-fiction book is also helping with her fiction—Susan’s award-winning mystery series features sixteenth-century ninja detective Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo.
One quick note: at about three-minutes into this interview we lost a few words from Susan due to the Skype connection or something but stay with it, you should be able to piece together what Susan is saying.
Susan Spann’s website
Intro music by Moby Gratis
Interlude music by Dan-o-Songs
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Host Mark Stevens: http://www.writermarkstevens.com
Thank you so much for inviting me, Mark! I loved getting to talk with you about Japan and the 100 Summits!