Introducing squidangel Susanna Duffy aka susannaduffy
Susanna starts out her introduction so well, I’ll just leave it up to her from here on out 
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How exciting! An interview! Heavens, I hardly know where to start – things have just happened so fast for me on Squidoo that I can hardly keep up. I’d scarcely recovered from the thrill of making the 100 Club when, out of the blue, I had a Lens of the Day followed soon after by another lens scoring a Purple Star award. In between the LOTD and the Purple Star I woke up one morning with Angel wings.
I keep pinching myself to make sure I really AM awake. See what I mean about exciting?
Why are you a squidoo lensmaster?
One day back in September of 2006, I chanced upon Squidoo and joined up to see what it was all about. I made two pretty dreadful lenses and then promptly forgot all about them. They would have stayed there forever, awful examples of lens creation, if a friend had not emailed me the address of a lens about Ancient Greece. A fabulous lens! (You guessed it, the lens was by GreekGeek ) Straight away I saw what could really be done with a lens.
So in August of 2008 I found my account again. Surprisingly it was still active after after 2 years, and I jumped in to make some lenses I wouldn’t be ashamed to show my friends. I put in some hard yakka for a full month. Now it’s something I enjoy afresh each day.
Q: What is your favorite lens?
My own favourite is How to Host a Roman Murder
I enjoyed making that one, I was smiling as I put it together. A Roman Party is wonderful fun for grown-ups in real life and I have some perfectly hysterical memories of murders round my dining table.
Q: What lens of yours is most under appreciated?
That must be my lens on Demeter
It’s my favourite Greek mythology lens but has more to it than that.
As I say in the introductory module, myths can be read as symbols, and can be used as working templates for modern times. Demeter is relevant, if you read past the supernatural, for women right here and now.
What lens of yours is most popular?
Would you believe 2000 year old recipes? It’s my Ancient Roman Cooking lens.
If you fancy some dormice for supper, I have just the recipe for you. Perfect for when you Host a Roman Murder
What’s one thing you see lensmasters doing that doesn’t work – and why doesn’t it?
Not proof-reading. I’ve seen some lenses that start off in a delightful fashion when suddenly- zoom – a big fat typo! Then there will be sentences wrongly spaced, text jammed together and no room for any words to breathe much less any sense to be made from the mess. Jumbles like this are always pasted and left ‘as-is’. They ruin the lens.
What’s your most important squidoo promotion method?
My blogs. I have a handful of blogs, each one on a different topic.
I link to a lens with a post on something similar to the content of that lens, and I use feeds both in, and out of squidoo. FaceBook is a good place to drop a lens. But not with the robot!
Which lensmaster(s) have helped you most?
Susan52 for her jolly companionship and sturdy shoulder on the journey to the 100 Club. And GreekGeek, of course, for giving me that kick-start.
For help overall
Joan4 (for her To-Do list)
thefluffanutta (for everything)
Tracey_M (for graphics)
And for entertaining me, drifter0658
3 Comments »
seegreen said :
May 8, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Susanna is one of my favourite lensmasters. There are a handful of lensmasters who I always stop to read when they post in the forums because I know it will be worth it, and she is one of them. (So are you Spirituality). I enjoyed reading the interview.
Treasures By Brenda said :
May 9, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Nice to learn a bit more about Susanna. Seems like you have some great friends!
AJ said :
May 10, 2009 at 3:37 am
Whever I am visiting the SquidU forum, I always make a point of looking at comments left by Susanna. They are always to the point and more often than not she makes me smile with her dry wit.
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