


Susannah Willey is the award-winning author of War Sonnets (JUL 2023, Utter Loonacy Press). Awarded a five star “award of excellence” by the Historical Fiction Company, War Sonnets was also awarded third place in the General Fiction Category of its 2022 Book of the Year awards.
Susannah Willey was born in 1952 in the small town of Ira, New York where her family settled over 200 years ago. She received a degree in Instructional Computing from SUNY Empire State College in 1998 and a degree in Instructional Design from Boise State in 2002. She and her partner make their home in Central New York in the foothills of the Adirondacks. A baby-boomer and a first-generation computer geek, nature photography and hiking are among her passions and, like all good grannies, she knits.
Susannah loves to tackle the less explored emotional experiences of war. Her rich family history often serves as the foundation for her historical novels. Her first novel, War Sonnets, was inspired by poetry written by her uncle about his experiences in the Pacific War during WWII. Her upcoming novel follows a Civil War surgeon and is loosely based on the military service of two ancestors.
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Short blurb at bottom:
No matter what side you take in this war, it will end in profound loss."
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Bullets flew, cannon roared, but there was something much more insidious that stalked the battlefield, and Jim had no idea how to treat it.
Dr. Jim Banyon, an ambitious Civil War surgeon, confronts the brutal realities of battlefield medicine. His initial quest for glory gives way to a moral crusade as he recognizes the unseen psychological wounds of war, which the army dismisses as cowardice. Forced to choose between his career and his conscience, Jim must defend the broken soldiers nobody else will, a decision that will cost him everything but his own humanity.
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