Susan Taylor Brown
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.
