Brown, Susan Taylor

Susan began her writing career with newsletters and publicity for local businesses, and then moved on to freelancing for newspapers and regional parenting publications. Her first fiction sale, a short story sold to Visions magazine, evolved into a young-adult novel, Flirtation Waltz, published by Cora Verlog (Germany) in 1990. Her second young-adult novel, Listen to the Gypsy, appeared in 1991. Since then she has published a number of easy readers, most recently The Very Patient Pony (Writer's Press, 1988).Her picture book I Pray with My Eyes Open? (Hyperion Press, 1999) soon followed. More than one hundred of Susan's articles and stories have appeared n magazines for children and adults. She has been Writer-in-Residence for the San Jose Alternative Schools At-Risk program. In addition to writing, Susan does motivational speaking on topics such as taking risks and having the courage to follow your dreams.