Stroking the pen is Susan’s first love. She started writing poetry when she was ten, followed by lyrics when she was thirteen. When she was seventeen, she won an honorable mention in a national lyric writing contest. In the nineties, she published poetry in small press magazines and won first place and honorable mentions in several short story contests. She has published stories in three Redwood Writers anthologies and in a magazine titled Adventures for the Average Woman.
Susan has also written non-fiction, including numerous articles for the REAP Record, a newsletter for paralegals. One of her legal articles has been published in the Bar Journal, a publication for attorneys. She has also published an article in the National Notary magazine. Fr three years whe was the newletter editor for the Redwood Writes group, of which she has been a member for nearly two decades. She has also ghostwritten for content writing services.
Susan is currently working on a paranormal novel about a young woman whose life takes a catastrophic turn and pushes her into facing the psychic abilities she was born with. Besides her current novel-in-progress, Susan has also written a psychological thriller that she plans to dust off in the near future.
Susan has also worked for many years as a paralegal investigating cases, making sense of facts, and writing a plethora of legal documents for attorneys. She says that her paralegal career has helped her to hone her fiction writing skills.
Besides writing, Susan enjoys creating digital artwork, acrylic painting, reading, gardening, and spending time with her husband and their dog and cat. She has also been working on her family history for several years and is a member of the Lake County Genealogy Society where she is part of an ancestral writing group. Susan married in 2019, so most of her writings at this website are under her former name, Susan Littlefield.
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