Biography

Susan Lanning, author of Harper’s Bluff, The Danesboro Line and other suspense and mystery novels, is an English teacher from Ohio, having retired in Arizona with her husband Bruce. She is the mother of two children and grandmother of five.

Susan started writing in her thirties when she was a stay-at-home mom. She loved to read but was often disappointed in the novels. So, instead of complaining about others, she decided to write one herself.

She felt her first attempt was lacking but enjoyed the experience so much she wrote another, meanwhile reading everything she could get her hands on about the craft. With each book she wrote, she felt she grew as a writer. To date, Susan has written 15 entire novels and half a dozen partials. And since the writing was more fun than trying to get published, she concentrated on the former.

Susan has now published two of her novels with iUniverse. She’s sold a number of copies and has gotten excellent comments back on her writing, making her feel that it was all worth while. She is working on her new mystery series that takes place in Arizona – in between gardening and having fun with her grandchildren. “Doing what you love keeps you young,” she says.

Upcoming novels to be published are Suffer a Witch about a town that still believes in witches – and in burning them at the stake, and Day of the Beast, the story of an evangelical minister who actually cures people, but at a horrible price.