A little about Suzy

The short version: Wife. Mother. Retired Teacher. Native Texan. Sweet Tea Drinker. Stress Cleaner. College Football Fanatic. True Crime Obsessed. Cookie Baker. Devoted Anglophile. Broadway Lover. Rugby Watcher. World Traveler. Oxford Comma Defender. 100% Virgo. Robert Wagner Fangirl.​ 

The long version: According to Suzy's mom, it started in first grade with a poem about a bubble. Suddenly she was a writer! In third grade she fell hard for Judy Blume. By fifth grade, she was writing stories under the sophisticated pen name, Lucky Lemon Lollipop. In high school, she crafted her own version of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, which her sophomore English teacher printed off and taught as a companion piece for many years. By her senior year of high school, she was hooked on iambic pentameter and trying her best to emulate Chaucer. ​Then college and marriage and motherhood happened...and writing was moved to the proverbial back burner. Yet as she approached her forties, the need to be creative again began to consume her. She sat down one day, without an inkling of direction, and started writing. Before she knew it, she'd written a 280K word epic novel!​ Yeah, right. Like anyone's interested in publishing that. ​So, she's spent the last few years writing appropriately sized novels and novellas that focus on love stories. She found success on two global reading apps - Wattpad and Yonder - where her romantic comedy, Chasing Mr. Crown, was a hit, amassing over 2 million reads. In 2022, she signed two publishing contracts with The Wild Rose Press and was invited to join the prestigious Tall Poppy Writers - the only cross-genre, cross-publisher, female author collective of its kind.

Suzy lives in Houston with her husband. She loves spending time with her adult children and is always dreaming about her next travel adventure. She's a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and retired from public education in 2022 after teaching for 26 years. ​​

To learn more about the Tall Poppy Writers, visit www.tallpoppies.org.​ To join Bloom, the Tall Poppies readers group on Facebook, visit www.areyouinbloom.com.