After an injury forced Suz off the scaffolding and into a recuperative vacation from her decorative arts business, she pulled out an old manuscript she'd started and shelved years before. Intrigued, she needed to know what happened to the characters and reclaimed her abandoned dream of writing fiction. 

 

Settling on a sub genre is difficult for Suzanna. She writes contemporary heroines who find themselves influenced by the past, sometimes to the point of traveling there. But a common thread in all her work is strong heroines and heroes who face untenable choices, forced to choose the wrong things for all the right reasons. Her love stories are always driven by long-held family secrets with lots of angsty sexual tension.

 

Also known as Susan J. Bickford in her native Nashville, she's a four-time Golden Heart® Finalist and happiest plotting new characters' adventures and worlds while covered in paint, brush in hand. When not writing and painting, you'll find her at her shop, The Painted Dragonfly, an eclectic emporium in historic Nolensville, Tennessee. A member of Music City Romance Writers and their current treasurer, she's happy to have embraced the creative life after leaving behind a career as corporate lobbyist and government affairs manager for a Fortune 300 company.