Author Bio
We all have things we love. I could sit and watch hummingbirds for hours. TV becomes less important to me every year. I still have my favorite shows but they are fewer than ever.
I am a writer and we writers have a tendency to not be able to turn our minds off. One way I can block out the world for an hour or two is to read or listen to a book.
When I was younger, I would take a lot of time to pick out just the right novel. Now, I look at the cover, it has to tickle something in my brain, the title, and I read the blub. If I get through those three things, I check out or buy the book.
I rarely come across a book I don’t like. Granted, some are better than others but I ususally read them. The only time I don’t finish a book is when I realize I don’t care what happens to the characters. It doesn’t happen often.
I’m primarily a mystery writer. I write them with two goals in mind. First, make my characters resemble people I meet in my daily life. All the people I know are not beautiful, have straight white teeth, speak perfect English and have money.
My friends and the people in my life have flaws, therefore, my characters have flaws.
Secondly, I don’t want anyone to be able to figure out who the killer is until I tell them at the end.
About me: I live on a farm in the beautiful Ozarks. I don’t farm, rarely garden anymore, spend way too much time in front of a typewriter or with a pencil in my hand.
I won the American Poetry Award at age sixteen and a literary award before I turned twenty-five (my sister was the editor of the magazine at the time). I won he Poetry Award all by myself.
I had two of the most beautiful girls in the world. My oldest died too young of breast cancer. My youngest is still the love she has always been.
I have five grandchildren ranging in age from sixteen to twenty-two. I love spending time with them. The three youngest and I love to go metal detecting and magnet fishing.
They are each special in their own way.
At the present time, I have two series out, The Arizona Summers Mysteries and the Kate Nash Mysteries. I’ve written a couple of kids books and a couple outside my genre.
At the present time I am working on book 15. It will have some magical elements and I am excited to get it out.
Feel free to converse with me about my writing or your writing at susankeenebooks@gmail.com
