Prescott Author Publishes Second Novel

PRESCOTT – Local author, poet, and musician Susan Matley, known best locally as western singer Cimarron Sue, is celebrating the publication of her second novel. Matley released her first sci-fantasy novella, Small-g City, through Colorado micro-press Wolfsinger Publications in 2015. The second book in the series, Big-G City, provides a behind-the-scenes look at the City of Mount Olympus, the setting for her new novel.

Matley has always loved creative writing, but began writing with the intent to publish in 1996. She began writing love stories but noticed an increase in sales when she began writing in the speculative-fiction genre. These days she writes in an unlikely pair of genres – either sci-fi/fantasy or western history.

“I’ve always liked what’s called ‘sociological science fiction.’ It’s a sub-genre that’s less concerned with technology/space opera and more concerned with human relationships and the world,” Matley said in a previous interview with The Times. “My early influences were C.S. Lewis’s Narnia Chronicles, the old ‘Twilight Zone’ television episodes, and lots of stuff in between,” she said.

Matley has had many short stories published in print and online anthologies. She sold her first short story, “I Saw Him Kissing Another Man’s Wife,” to True Love Magazine in 1997. Wolfsinger Publications published her short story, “Unintended Consequences,” in July.

Big-G City is available in print and e-book formats and can be purchased at http://www.susandmatley.com/big-g-city/. For updates on readings, signings, and contests visit http://susandmatley.com.

About Big-G City:

“Five years after the close of Seattle-based small-g City (the first book in the series), Veronica Zeta has succeeded her father, Zeus, as CEO of worldwide corporation Olympus, Inc. She embarks on an ambitious program of corporate reform, but, when best business practices fall short, deploys a top-secret power passed on to her by Zeus. Veronica Soon discovers The Power comes with a brutal price.

Will Veronica survive her dream job? Can Zeus, Ex-Lord of the Universe, cope with his reduced status? And what of Ralph, retired from his structureling duties in Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct? The answers lie in the City of Mount Olympus, capital city of the immortals known as Big-G City.”