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FASHION She’s currently working on a new novel,

MODEL a romantic comedy about a young model

to in Hollywood in the 1980s.

AUTHOR

from Asheville, where they both grew is an adult paranormal romance set
up—she retired from acting and dec­ in her fictional town of Hogback whe­
lared herself a full-time writer. re lots of folks seem to have a sec ret,

and Smit ten with Kittens in the De sert
Susan McNabb began her unusually long Susan wrote “Tryon Diary”, a weekly is an adult contem po ra ry romance
newspaper column for the Tryon Dai- set in Phoenix that includes a family
Hollywood career as a model, and now she ly Bulletin, “The World’s Smallest Dai ly of feral cats Susan encoun tered in her
Newspaper”, in which she chronicled new desert life.
writes about it. Her latest book The Opposite her adjustment to small-town life
in North Carolina after living in Los In January of 2021, Susan put on her
of Famous, A Hollywood Memoir is a collection Angeles. nonfiction hat again and pub lished

The Opposite of Famous, A Holly-
of hilarious essays about her three decades She published her first book in Tryon, wood Memoir as Susan McNabb.
a vampire romance called Drop She tells true and funny be hind-
in Los Angeles working as a model, commercial Dead Gorgeous, as Suki McMinn. Her the-scenes stories about her life

hot leading man is a model in L.A. in Hol lywood — how she started
actor, film extra, and in various other jobs, who bites. While in Tryon, she also modeling, moved from North Caro-
published two volumes of her news­ lina to California as a young wo man
including stand-in, photo double, and road paper columns as Susan McNabb: with nothing but a dream, built a li fe

Tryon Diary and The Complete Tryon working in front of the camera but
manager for Halloween icon, Elvira, Mistress Diary. also taking other industry-rela ted
jobs, and then traveled with Elvira all
of the Dark. Susan’s husband got a new job over the country as her road ma na ger.

that took them to Phoenix, Arizona, She met all kinds of people and fell
in 2015. Missing her little mountain in love with a young come dian who­
town, she created the “Hogback Series” se career sky-rocketed with his hit TV
of novelettes. Set in a fictional North series, Seinfeld.
hile living in Los Angeles, Su- While still working in front of the ca- Carolina town, The Vampire of Wal­
W san rubbed elbows and other mera, Susan began writing at the age ler County and Christmas in Waller Now, Susan is still in Phoenix, but
bo dy parts with many interesting of forty-nine and fell in love with You can visit Susan at: Coun ty are cozy mysteries that fol- spends her summers in the cool
men, including Jerry Seinfeld for eight it. She started writing fanfic tion https://susanmcnabb.com/ low the adventures of a young vam pi­ moun tains of Tryon when she can.
roc ky years. Now, she’s happily mar­ and soon found herself creating ori­ or on Facebook, Instagram, or re adjusting to his new circumstan ces. She’s currently working on a new no­
ried to a man she met in high school ginal fiction as Suki McMinn. Twit ter. She’s also easy to find Susan’s brother, artist Corey McNabb, vel, a romantic comedy about a young
and splits her time between Phoe nix, as Suki McMinn. Sign up for her painted her characters and created model in Hollywood in the 1980s.
Arizona, and the tiny town of Tryon, In 2011, when Susan and her hus band newsletter at the book covers for the series. She loves to write what she knows
North Carolina, in the foothills decided to move from Hollywood https://susanmcnabb.com/ best. She also still publishes a “Tryon
of the Blue Ridge Mountains. to Tryon — just down the mountain https://sukimcminn.com/ Susan also published two short sto- Diary” column in the newspaper when
to get her latest news. ries while living in Phoenix. The Iris she can.

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