Meet Susan K. Marlow

Who knows kids and what they want in a book better than a teacher, home-schooling mother of  four with ten grandchildren, and an avid reader?

Who can resist a heroine who would rather ride her palomino mare, Taffy, than go to school? A spunky young gal who runs down the new schoolteacher in a wild horserace down the Main Street of Fresno, California?

Author Susan K. Marlow has captured the hearts of readers from preschool through senior adult with five best-selling series characterized by “horses, adventure, and the Old West.”

The Circle C Beginnings, Circle C Stepping Stones, Circle C Adventures, and Circle C Milestones take place in the mid-1800s on a cattle ranch near Fresno. The Goldtown Adventures series for boys 8-12 is also set in central California, but during the waning days of the gold rush. 

Susan says: “I can’t remember when I wasn’t writing, but only for myself. My first book, The Stars Know the Way, was a sci-fi adventure of five kids lost in space and painstakingly inscribed in a hardback book with blank pages my grandfather brought me home from the dump when I was a young teen. Decades later, my former college writing teacher (who became my mentor) encouraged me to contact Kregel Publications concerning Andrea Carter and the Long Ride Home. We are celebrating its 10^th anniversary with a new, expanded version.”

Susan and her husband, Roger, are active in their church in Tonasket, Washington, fifteen miles from their fourteen-acre homestead in the Okanogan Highlands. In addition to speaking at conferences and in schools, now that Roger has retired from school administration, each spring and summer he and Susan travel. 

Truck filled with book boxes, Roger and Susan hit the home-school convention trail. Not only do they offer wholesome books at reasonable prices, they often meet Susan’s fans, who faithfully follow her on her website and blogs. For more information, including full book descriptions, go to www.SusanMarlow.com

When asked, “What is your single best advice to writers regardless of their age?” Susan replies, “Read, read, read, and write, write, write! Try to remember the five essential elements of a good fiction story: strong characters, an interesting setting, an intriguing story problem, exciting plot events, and a satisfying solution.”