Passed for dead on Facebook, a novelist of torrid fictions is resurrected

Disbelief.

Then, anger.

Fans of an American novelist were taken aback to say the least when they learned of the writer's unexpected return.

His absence was justified, to say the least: Susan Meachen, the freelance writer behind several self-published romances, was supposed to have been dead two years ago.

Suicide, according to the announcement posted in 2020 on her Facebook page.

But it was not.

The ghost reappeared in early January.

In a message posted on Facebook, in the private group The Ward, Susan Meachen announced that

.

Aware of the effect that her return to the circle of The Ward, which brings together readers and other authors, would have, the novelist mentioned having

anticipating that there would be

In a half-word, she also evokes

died by her own hand.

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The supposed death of Susan Meachen had shocked the circle of her professional acquaintances.

Officially taken over by the writer's daughter – a detail now in doubt – the Facebook page had launched a donation drive for suicide prevention organizations in November 2021 and then more recently, on February 3.

Morbid trickery

The disappearance of the writer had been profitable.

In the more confidential circle of The Ward, the “daughter” of Susan Meachen had promoted the last book of the writer by encouraging the members of the group to pre-order it before its posthumous release and then advertise it, to honor the memory. of the deceased.

An anthology book, published by a collective of authors in response to his death, had also seen the light of day at the end of 2020. Finally, sales of titles published "during his lifetime" soared, according to the progression of the rank of his titles on Kindle.

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Today, after the astonishment of knowing Susan Meachen alive, her duped readers and colleagues feel more than bitterness.

,” a Twitter user got carried away, summarizing the story.

," moped to the BBC Candace Adams, who had signed one of the news from the anthology book released in memory of Susan Meachen.

, also reacted online the novelist Samantha A. Cole, member of the small Facebook community of The Ward.

,” she continues.

Susan Meachen's "return to life" is all the more surprising since some of her colleagues had already exposed the deception.

The novelist's "daughter" oddly made the exact same spelling mistakes as her mother.

And she had been appearing on her public TikTok account since November 2021. Questioned since her return by Candace Adams, Susan Meachen retorted

adding that she had had family problems.

The state of his finances is not known.