Suzanne Selfors's Books
Aug.21.2012
Emmeline Thistle, a dirt-scratcher's daughter, has escaped death twice-first, on the night she was born, and second, on the day her entire village was swept away by flood. Left with nothing and no one, Emmeline discovers her rare and mysterious ability-she can churn milk into chocolate, a delicacy more precious than gold.Suddenly, the most unwanted girl in Anglund finds...
May.10.2011
When Homer Pudding receives a mysterious note emblazoned with the letters L.O.S.T., he knows the moment he has been waiting for has arrived. It is time to meet the Society of Legends, Objects, Secrets, and Treasures and become a true adventurer.With his best friends, Dog, at his side, everything seems to be going as planned...until an unexpected opponent challenges Homer's...
Apr.01.2011
Thirty-six Pacific Northwest authors came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage in Seattle. The result? Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices, a truly inventive story that surprises at every turn of the page. All profits will benefit literacy programs. The story: Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop...
Jan.04.2011
As the daughter of the bestselling Queen of Romance, life for sixteen-year-old Alice Amorous should be pretty good. But ever since her mother was secretly hospitalized for mental illness, Alice has been forced to maintain a brave front--lying to her new crush, Tony, answering fan letters, forging her mother's signature, telling the publisher that all is well. Now time is running...
Nov.09.2010
When Katrina spots a homeless guy sleeping in the alley behing her grandmother's coffee shop, she leaves him a cup of coffee, a bag of chocolate-covered coffee beans, and some pastries to tide him over, never expecting this random act of kindness to turn her life upside down. The adorable vagrant, Malcolm, is actually a guardian angel on a break between missions, and now he won't...
May.01.2010
Meet Homer Pudding, an ordinary farm boy who’s got big dreams—to follow in the footsteps of his famous treasure-hunting uncle. But when Uncle Drake mysteriously disappears, Homer inherits two things: a lazy, droopy dog with no sense of smell, and a mystery. Why would his uncle call this clumsy dog his “most treasured possession?” And why did he put a gold coin on the dog’s collar?...
Mar.01.2009
Everything changes when ten-year-old Isabelle discovers that she is the heir to Fortune’s Farm, a wondrous place where the last vestiges of magic grow. For as long as she can remember, she’s longed to escape her home in Runny Cove, a village where it never stops raining, and where she is forced to work at Mr. Supreme’s Umbrella Factory.
Journeying across the ocean, Isabelle...
Feb.05.2008
17-year-old Mimi Wallingford has a life most girls dream of-complete with the starring role in her family's production of Romeo and Juliet. But acting is not her dream and she's fighting for the right to trade her script for a scalpel and become a doctor.
14-year-old Juliet Capulet has lived a lonely life-imprisoned by the feud that consumes her family and by her iron-fisted mother...
Sep.01.2007
Boom Broom doesn't think his life could get any worse. Ever since his mother was swept away by a twister, his family has gone crazy. They refuse to leave the house and Boom and his sister Mertyle are looked after by Halvor, the Viking descendant who rents the room over their garage.
When Boom finds a baby mermaid who seems to grant unlimited wishes, he thinks his luck has turned...
About Suzanne
I started writing at age 39, the very morning I sent my youngest child off to school. And I can't seem to stop. I love it. It's one of the most satisfying and terrifying experiences of my life. It started with dark, ancient world historicals for adults but a...
Causes Suzanne Selfors Supports
Heifer International