Who is Susan Meachen, the romance novelist, who has come back to life years after ‘suicide’?

Nearly three years back, Susan Meachen’s “death” was mourned by everybody in her on-line “book world”. Now, the similar neighborhood is enraged.

Why? Because, apparently, she is alive.

In what appears acquainted to the plotline of Gone Girl and scores of different motion pictures the place a personality fakes their very own dying, Meachen allegedly performed the same trick in 2020, solely to ‘resurrect’ herself this yr.

Who is Susan Meachen and the way did her “death” come to mild in 2020? How did she come “alive” now? Why had she faked her personal dying? We clarify.

Who is Susan Meachen?

Tennessee-based Susan Meachen is an indie author who describes herself as the “author of perfectly flawed romances”, reported USA Today.

She based the Facebook group named The Ward – which consists of self-published romance and erotica authors who promote inexpensive e-books and print-on-demand paperbacks, particularly on Amazon, as per Slate journal.

How Susan Meachen’s ‘death’ got here to mild

In September 2020, it was in The Ward group the place the information about Meachen’s dying by suicide was revealed in a submit by somebody who claimed to be her daughter, reported BBC.

Tributes poured in with everybody condoling Meachen’s “death” on the submit.

Soon after, rumours began spreading that the creator had been bullied by some folks in “the book world”, which triggered finger-pointing amongst the on-line group for months.

“I personally was harassed by another author who loves to create drama, claiming I was one of the authors who bullied Susan and drove her to suicide,” Samantha A Cole, a fellow indie creator, informed Rolling Stone.

A month after her alleged dying by suicide, a submit was constructed from Meachen’s account that received tongues wagging.

Responding to folks’s questions on exercise from the lifeless creator’s account, Meachen’s “daughter” wrote, as per Rolling Stone, “Sorry thought everyone on this page knew my mom passed away”.

“Dead people don’t post on social media I’ve been on this account for a week now finishing her last book, my wedding gift from her,” she additional added.

Another submit urged followers on Facebook not to report the official account of Meachen, which Rolling Stone says was “likely to avoid its memorialization and maintain access”.

According to BBC, for 2 years, the e-book neighborhood members marked Meachen’s dying anniversary, and likewise organised fundraisers and e-book auctions to honour her reminiscence.

Not everybody was satisfied

Cole, a retired police officer, informed BuzzFeed News that some neighborhood members had suspicions about Meachen’s dying, however they stored quiet for concern of being “torn apart”.

Author Candace Adams, who has been a part of Meachen’s on-line writing group since 2019, mentioned the doubts elevated after a few of them observed a grammar mistake in posts made by Meachen’s “daughter” from the author’s account after her alleged dying.

“Susan had a very strange spelling error. Whenever she would write ‘supposed to’, she wouldn’t write that, she would write ‘post to’,” Adams informed BBC.

It is additionally believed that Meachen created one other identification by the title of TN Steele to preserve a presence in the e-book neighborhood, say experiences.

‘Dead’ creator comes back to life

It appears Meachen has determined to return to the residing world.

In a submit on 2 January 2023 on the Facebook group, Meachen wrote, as per USA Today, “I debated on how to do this a million times and still not sure if it’s right or not. There’s going to be tons of questions and a lot of people leaving the group I’d guess. But my family did what they thought was best for me and I can’t fault them for it. I almost died again at my own hand and they had to go through all that hell again. Returning to The Ward doesn’t mean much but I am in a good place now and I am hoping to write again. Let the fun begin.”

The submit left her fellow neighborhood members, followers and mates shocked, confused and offended.

“I was horrified, stunned, livid, and felt like I’d been kicked in the gut and the chest at the same time. I’m still sick to my stomach and it’s gotten worse,” Cole wrote in her now-viral submit about the dying hoax.

As per Rolling Stone, Cole requested Meachen about what was occurring after her comeback submit, to which the Love to Last a Lifetime creator replied: “Nothing. I simply want my life back. My family was in a bad place and did what they thought was best for me.”

Stunned at the occasions that unfolded final week, Cole informed BBC, “To me it’s something that happens in fiction”, including, “I will never be able to completely wrap my brain around whatever she might have been thinking because people just don’t do this”.

Hitting out at Meachen over the dying hoax, Cole informed Rolling Stone, “Suicide is not something to make a joke about or claim it happened for attention. Almost everyone knows someone who committed suicide or attempted suicide, and there are many people who have tried to kill themselves and are grateful they failed or continue to struggle to fight their demons.”

As per Adams, the information of Meachen faking her dying has “destroyed what once felt like a safe and supportive community”.

“Everybody kind of feels like now they can’t take care of each other because they don’t know what’s real and what’s not,” BBC quoted her as saying.

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