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Susan Meier has been the employee of a major defense contractor, a columnist for a small newspaper, and a division manager for a charitable organization, as well as a legal secretary, office manager, receptionist, waitress, bingo worker and ice cream sales person. The information she gained from these experiences has broadened the scope of her writing, but more than that her jobs introduced her to a wide variety of people who serve as blueprints for her characters. She has published over thirty romance novels with Harlequin and Silhouette.

Though she has given up her outside employment in the hope of fulfilling her dream of writing a New York Times Bestseller, she raised three children with her husband Michael while she worked outside the home and wrote. Because of this, Susan regularly gives workshops on time management and goal setting. She firmly believes that goals provide the motivation that propels a persistent person to stardom, but she also believes in balance between work and play - evidenced by her truly terrible golf game and her on-again, off-again suntans!

Susan has been an active member of the Pennsylvania writers organization, Pennwriters, having served as President, Treasurer, Area Representative, Bylaws Committee Chair and Elections Chair. She is Pennwriters' 1999 Meritorious Service Award winner. She is also a member of RWA and New Jersey Romance Writers of America.

Susan is also one of eleven children and many of her books reflect family themes. Because she has over twenty nieces and nephews, children are always popping up in her stories. Many of the funny scenes relating to children in her books are based upon real experiences with her children or her nieces and nephews. She's dying to find a scene to showcase her two-year-old nephew David's recent request for a fat roll -- which actually turned out to be a pretzel!

She was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania and continues to live in Pennsylvania.

Susan Meier