About Me

Welcome

I’m an award-winning writer with a number of careers under my belt, including 20 years as a film industry camera assistant in Los Angeles and Baltimore and 20 years in journalism as a newspaper reporter and editor. I have also taught writing, written speeches and handled constituent services for a county councilman, copy edited a well-known international wine journal and happily shelved books at my local library.

I have written four novels. The latest, “The Troubled Times,” (the life/adventures of journalist Ava Burns) is out to agents, publishers and novel contests. I am currently working on my first memoir “Film/Addict,” a set of interweaving tales from my 20-year film industry career. Please take a look at the Fiction/Memoir page for excerpts of my novels, short stories and links to published work.

In addition, I’m building pages about my Journalism and Film careers, as well as my new avocation, Audio. Take a look. I will be adding new items as I build out the site.

Since starting the blog “Newzcook: smart talk/cheap meals” Dec. 11, 2008, (formerly the Writers’ New Depression Cookbook) as an outlet for my cooking ideas on a journalist’s shoestring budget and writing on topics I’m curious/passionate about, I completed a Master of Arts in Writing at Johns Hopkins University.

I’m rebooting the blog and will be, as before, posting musings on life, writing, politics and the news industry, as well as cheap, creative, quick recipes.

Stick with me, I’m just getting up to speed. Again. Thanks.

Susan C. Ingram

Credits:

• All photos used on the site are by Susan C. Ingram, except where noted
• Painting on Fiction/Memoir page by C. Taylor
• Clip art from MS Word