Dear Reader, Love Susan Wingate

Dear Reader…

I think the main character in HOW THE DEER MOON HUNGERS, MacKenzie Fraser might say, “Hey. Why do you want to read about me? I’m just a kid. Sure. I just lost my little sister, Tessa to a drunk driver who ran over her. And sure. Mom and Dad’s marriage might fall into a raging dumpster fire of love and loss but I’m not much different than any other sixteen-year-old kid out there in today’s world. Life is rough. Deal. With. It. Right? Or not. I’m no Dalai Lama. What do I know? I don’t have any answers. In fact, it seems like all I have are the big Qs, you know? Wait…you too? Well, and totally, now, from me to you…I hope you get your head on. I truly do. You seem like a nice person.”

What I might say is that writing HOW THE DEER MOON HUNGERS made me a better person. I hope that doesn’t sound trite. But the writing of Deer Moon made me more aware of things, of people I take for granted, like friends, like my family, like my husband.

Taking someone for granted seems like it should appear so enormous in one’s mind, as though when you’re doing it, there should be a big neon sign in great hulking letters screaming at you: Hey Stupid! This here life is fleeting and you’re not special! Quit being a chump! Be nicer!

That’s a lot of exclamation points. But you get what I mean. And those big neon signs never appear. Because taking someone for granted is much more subtle and invasive than a billboard. Hell, even a stop sign. Taking a person for granted weasels in and, before you know it, you’re saying and doing stupid things that when you think back on what you’ve said and done, you realize that you’ve been awful and selfish person and can only, at this point, ask for their forgiveness. Because what if they walked out the door right this second and got hit by a car? What would you say then? The answer? Absolutely nothing.

Telling the people in your life that you love them every single day is of the utmost importance. It will make them happy. And telling Bob I love him makes me less of a jerk. In fact, I’m sure I should be telling him right here, right now that I love him more than anything in the world.

So, with that, thank you dear reader for reading HOW THE DEER MOON HUNGERS. I’d love your opinion of Mac’s story. God bless you and with much love, Susan Wingate.

About the Book

For those who enjoy reading books like Where the Crawdads Sing and My Sister’s Keeper
MACKENZIE FRASER witnesses a drunk driver mow down her seven-year-old sister and her mother blames her. Then she ends up in juvie on a trumped-up drug charge. Now she’s in the fight of her life…on the inside! And she’s losing.
HOW THE DEER MOON HUNGERS is a coming of age story about loss, grief, and the power of love.

HOW THE DEER MOON HUNGERS Won “Best Fiction” in the 2020 Pacific Book Awards.

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About the Author

Susan Wingate is a #1 Amazon bestselling award-winning author of over fifteen novels. Susan writes across fiction and nonfiction genres and often sets her stories in the Pacific Northwest where she is the president of a local authors association. She writes full-time and lives in Washington State with her husband, Bob.

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