Susan Connell

Bestselling author and winner of the Golden Leaf Award, Susan Connell, calls south Florida home. Like Janet Evanovich, Cindy Gerard, Leanne Banks and Tami Hoag, Susan started her writing career at Bantam/Doubleday/Dell (now Random House).

The parents of three grown daughters, she and her husband recently spent a winter in an Italian hill town — an experience she calls "a dream come true". She is drawn to exotic locales (Peru, Ivory Coast, New Zealand, Spain and other equally fascinating places. Once a year she takes off with a small group of girlfriends who also enjoy her penchant for adventures — white water rafting, zip lining, and wilderness hiking, to name a few. If you meet her be sure to ask her about her encounter with a Barbary ape while visiting Gibraltar.

You can reach her at authorsusanconnell@gmail.com or visit her website www.susanconnellbooks.comSusan finds creating characters with good hearts and moral challenges is another enjoyable experience. Making her readers laugh is always a pleasure. She says her motto is "Well behaved women seldom make history".