Susan appeared on MYSTERY QUEST: ALCATRAZ, RESIDENCE OF EVIL, on The History Channel, on Wednesday, November 4, 2009.
Go to YouTube for a 3-minute trailer of the show (Susan appears in two places in the trailer) The link is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RFS46DH88w
Go to www.historychannel.com and click on MysteryQuest to see an archived segment of the show.
Susan also appeared at The Carolina Writers Conference on April 17, 2010 in Wadesboro, NC. She spoke on the evolution of an idea into a finished book (using CAMELOT as an example) and in a second presentation on how to turn your book into an Amazon bestseller.
Susan's novel, STEALING FIRE, for the second time,
earned a semi-finalist spot in the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
(ABNA) contest. Hers was one of 500 novels chosen out of 5,000
submitted.
Signed copies of Susan's RAY CHARLES: YOUNG MUSICIAN book for the CHILDHOODS OF FAMOUS AMERICANS series (Simon & Schuster) are selling briskly at Jackson's Drugstore in Greenville, Florida, childhood home of Ray Charles. This promotion was arranged in conjunction with the mayor of Greenville, to honor its most famous citizen.
FORWARD TO CAMELOT won Honorable Mention in General Fiction at the 2008 Beach Book Festival! This is the third literary competition in which CAMELOT has been honored.
In October 2007, Susan's children's biography for Bearport Press, titled RAY CHARLES: FIND ANOTHER WAY!, won a silver medal in the MOONBEAM CHILDREN'S AWARDS (Multi-Cultural Non-Fiction). The Moonbeam Awards are a division of the IPPYS, which awarded CAMELOT an honorary mention in 2004 for Visionary Fiction.
In May 2007, Susan chaired the first-ever EAST COOPER AUTHORS FESTIVAL, a program she founded to bring professional authors to local schools. Seventeen schools, from primary through high school, participated in this remarkable event, which reached almost 11,000 students in one amazing day.