Between the Bridges–PD returns!
Book III of the Up Beaver Creek Series is available now from all your favorite booksellers. Having survived the death of her husband, a tsunami, and a rape attempt, PD Soares believes her new life on the Oregon coast is finally settling down. The music career she dreamed of when she left Montana with a new look and a new name is finally getting underway. She has a new home up Beaver Creek, a good job, and possibly a new romance, but it’s 2020, and life is about to take another turn. Or two or three. The whole year is one big riptide, but PD will have to swim her way out of it with a little help from her old friends and a new friend everyone calls The Witch.
Blue Chip Stamp Guitar!
My latest poetry chapbook follows my life of music and the love that never leaves me: my old six-string guitar. For information, visit The Poetry Box.
Coming June 25, 2024: No Way Out of This: Loving a Partner with Alzheimer’s
Sue’s much-older husband, Fred, is a forgetful man. She’s always found that charming. But when his absentmindedness worsens into full-blown dementia, she suddenly finds herself dealing with his illness alone. Struggling to care for Fred and manage their two loveable but incorrigible dogs and still find time to write and play music, Sue constantly faces impossible choices. Tell people about his illness? Let him drive? Put him in an institution? Treat his medical problems, or let him go? Every decision feels wrong—but in the end, their love carries them through it all.
Pre-order now at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Powell’s, and Google Play
Dining Al Fresco With My Dog
Published in April 2024 by MoonPath Press: Poems about dogs, living alone in the woods, and figuring life out one challenge at a time.
Author
Amazon author Central page: https://www.amazon.com/author/suelick
Childlessness: Childless by Marriage, Love or Children: When You Can’t Have Both
Poetry: The Widow at the Piano , Gravel Road Ahead, Blue Chip Stamp Guitar, Dining Al Fresco with My Dog
Novels: Up Beaver Creek, Seal Rock Sound, Between the Bridges, Azorean Dreams
Portuguese Americans: Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California, The Iberian Americans
Life on the Oregon coast: Unleashed in Oregon: Best from the Blog, Shoes Full of Sand
Writing: Freelancing for Newspapers
Blogger
Visit my new Substack, “Can I Do It Alone?”
Teacher and Speaker
I have taught at community colleges, conferences and workshops across the country, as well as online. I am available for readings and talks to writers’ groups and others about my books, writing, childlessness, my dog, the Oregon Coast, living alone . . . Just give me a microphone.
Musician
Speaking of microphones, I have been a professional musician for almost as long as I’ve been a writer. I sing, play guitar, piano, and mandolin and occasionally write songs. After many years as a choir director/accompanist/cantor at Sacred Heart Church here in Newport, Oregon, I have taken my talents to St. Anthony’s in Waldport, as well as anywhere else people will listen.
CEO, Blue Hydrangea Productions
This is the mother company and the imprint for my publishing, teaching, editing, writing and music activities. I chose the name for the massive blue flowers outside my front door which mirror the ones that cover the Azores islands in Portugal from which my mother’s family came.
Click here for the complete Blue Hydrangea book catalog.
Sue Fagalde Lick 
Hi, Sue! I saw your review of my book Rise From The River on Goodreads. I’m in Oregon right now – I’ve been in Waldport since July 16th, will be here until this Saturday, the 30th. Would you like to meet for coffee?
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Hi Kathie. How exciting that you’re here. I love your books. I’m flattened by a back injury but I think it’s getting better. I would love to meet you for coffee. What time do you usually hit Starbuck’s?
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Sue Fagalde Lick,
I’m a childless man. Its not like I never had children of my own. My child is in heaven through a miscarriage. I don’t blame my wife, but I do blame the circumstances of that moment.
It has now lead me down a journey of pursuing parenthood through surrogacy.
It was an emotional hurdle for me knowing that I’m not a father, and people can be insensitive toward me because I’m not a dad. They’ll ask me if I have children, and for the most part I don’t bite back in frustration. It does get frustrating when even people at church say, “Well, you guys aren’t trying hard enough.” Then I have people tell me what a blessing their child is to them, and there’s nothing wrong with that. It does hurt because in a way they are saying I haven’t been blessed.
So people find it oddly amusing that I’m always extremely busy, and I mean very busy.
First it started out with two jobs, and now I’m working three jobs. I’m volunteering to keep myself occupied. Now, I’m also investing too.
People tell me to chill and don;’t work as hard.
But if I quit now than I won’t ever be able to afford the surrogacy. I’ll continue to be childless. I work as a mentor. It is very rewarding. Its not like I’m not giving back and being completely self centered.
I started a journey, and now my wife has decided she is on the same journey with me.
I made some important strides in the last several months–not nearly enough to afford surrogacy, but as time goes on I always try to up my investments. My goal is to reach $100,000 before this year is out. At this rate, it doesn’t look like this will be the year, but I’m not quitting.
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Max,
I’ve never had children of my own either. I get the same response from some
very insensitive people. Why people perceive that as an evil in us beats my two pair.
I hate, loathe and despise Father’s Day. I call it National Chopped Liver Day. Although, I
stayed busy yesterday and didn’t really think about it. I feel like I missed out on a lot.
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Hello Sue! just purchased a signed copy of STORIES GRANDMA NEVER TOLD. A beautiful book but not many signed copies out there.
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That’s wonderful. Thank you..
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Hi Sue! I adored your chapbook the Widow at the Piano. Link to my review https://denisederrico.wordpress.com/2023/09/08/a-chapbook-review-the-widow-at-the-piano/
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Thank you so much. That’s beautiful. And yes, I want to be friends, too.
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