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Here's the lineup of what's on the horizon from Susan Hickman, Ph.D.

Driving Your Characters Insane (Coming 2026)

Driving Your Characters Insane shows novelists how to write psychologically realistic characters who live on the edge of mental disorder—without clichés or caricature. Using real psychological frameworks translated into practical craft tools, this book reveals how patterns of fear, mood, perception, personality, and trauma shape how characters think, feel, and act on the page.

Writers learn how to dial traits up or down for believable conflict, deeper interiority, and stronger storytelling. The result: characters who feel human, complex, and impossible to forget.

Driving Your Characters Insane (Course)

Driving Your Characters Insane Companion Course is an added resource designed to enhance writer's practice of the tools introduce in the book. Through structured lessons, examples, and practical exercises, writers take a hands-on approach for intentionally dialing psychological traits up or down to create believable conflict, richer interiority, and sustained character arcs.

Expanding on the Points to Ponder sections of the book, the course focuses on application—helping writers move from insight to execution—so their characters feel human, complex, and compelling on the page.

Best Little Books (Coming 2026-27)

"Best Little Book" Series. These little books are designed to focus on practical, learnable skills that strengthen how you think, regulate emotion, and respond to challenges. Each book targets the core skills missing beneath a specific struggle like anxiety, low mood, chronic anger, decision-making difficulties or self-doubt—so you can build clarity, steadiness, and confidence from the inside out.

If you're looking for brief, down-to-earth guides with straightforward steps you can easily follow, then you'll love this series. Join our email list and we'll let you when these start hitting the shelves.

Example of Best Little Book series on a stand
Example of Best Little Book series on a stand
Waking Worlds (Coming 2027)

When Martha Dahomey vanishes from Dahomey Park—abducted in broad daylight—Sheriff Owen Wilds knows this is no ordinary kidnapping. Now, with her husband injured and no clear trail to follow, Owen is pulled into a search that grows darker—and stranger—by the hour.

As the investigation unfolds, Owen uncovers signs of a hidden organization operating far beyond the limits of small-town Tennessee, one with roots that stretch backward through history and forward into realities not yet written. The closer he gets to Martha, the more the rules of the world begin to bend, and the more Owen realizes that what he’s facing isn’t just evil—it’s vast, patient, and watching.

With time slipping away and forces closing in from every direction, Owen must decide how far he’s willing to go—and what he’s willing to risk—to save the woman he never stopped loving.

Sheriff looking into supernatural portal
Sheriff looking into supernatural portal
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