Randy Susan Meyers

Randy Susan Meyers

The drama of Randy Susan Meyers' internationally bestselling novels is informed by over twenty years working with criminal offenders and families impacted by emotional and physical violence. 

The Widow of Wall Street, described by PW as “An engaging and sharp reflection of the rapid changes in marital dynamics over the course of the 20th century, as well as a cautionary tale about the dangers and allure of ambition in the heyday of Wall Associated Press called the novel “compelling.” Previous novels, The Murderer’s Daughters and Accidents of Marriage were finalists for the Massachusetts Book Awards, who wrote the Massachusetts Council of the Book, who wrote, “The clear and distinctive voice of Randy Susan Meyers will have you enraptured and wanting more.” The Boston Globe called Meyers’ second novel, The Comfort of Lies “Sharp and biting, and sometimes wickedly funny when the author skewers Boston’s class and neighborhood dividing lines, but it has a lot of heart, too.” Choosing Accidents of Marriage as a People “Pick of The Week,” the magazine wrote, “This novel’s unsparing look at emotional abuse and its devastating consequences gives it gravity and bite, while a glimpse into a physically damaged mind both surprises and fascinates.”
 The Murderer’s Daughters, deemed a “Knock-out Debut” by the LA Times was a nationwide Target Book Club pick. Meyers lives in Boston and teaches at Boston’s Grub Street Writers’ Center and at Writer in Progress in Northampton, MA.

Writer’s Groups: Don’t Drink and Read

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“No child could possibly be happy about her father moving out!” The above was said to me at a writing workshop, in a discussion about my then unpublished novel (it eventually became The Murderer’s Daughters.) The ‘child’ in question lived with a selfish, sarcastic, angry mother and an oft-drunk “mooning around” father. In the questioned scene … Read more

How Besteller Lists Are Made, Authors, & A Bit of Crazy

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  “My agent and editor started talking about ‘the list’ from the start, virtually ensuring that I’d consider myself a failure if I didn’t make it. At first, when they talked about it, I didn’t even know what “the list” was—didn’t know there was truly only one ‘list.’ “You must stay drunk on writing so … Read more

Words for Peace

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“I speak not for myself but for those without voice… those who have fought for their rights… their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.” Malala Yousafzai “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to … Read more

A Furious Love

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Alan before

While readying to write about Professor Cromer Learns to Read, I searched for a quote or statistic that would put in perspective the overwhelming job families have caring for brain-injured loved ones, words that said how much we are failing brain injured soldiers returning from war, athletes cast aside after they’ve suffered irreparable damage to their brain, those who’ve fallen, those who’ve been in car accidents—all our mothers, fathers, wives, husbands, friends, partners, and children who struggle to make it back and most of whom will never be the same.

As Cromer says about many things, “all the above is true”, but instead, I’ll offer the words Janet Cromer said to her brain-injured husband each night:

“Alan, the joy of my life is waking up with you each morning. The joy of my life is going to sleep with you each night.”

Before his acquired brain injury, anoxic brain damage (and later dementia

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