In September 2020, the online community of self-published romance writers was rocked by a Facebook post announcing that author Susan Meachen had died by suicide.
To her readers and fellow authors, Meachen had seemed like another writer hustling to make it big in the grueling, potentially lucrative world of indie romance. The author of more than a dozen books with titles like His Wicked Way and My Crush, Meachen had amassed a small but...