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Suzanne Woods Fisher

College, marriage and small children...in the midst of those busy years, Suzanne started free lance writing for magazines, most frequently for Christian Parenting Today, part of Christianity Today, International. She eventually became a contributing editor.

Serendipitous, as her grandfather had been one of the first publishers for Christianity Today magazine, started by Billy Graham and his father-in-law, Dr. L. Nelson Bell, back in the 1950s.

Suzanne contributed to the award-winning Praying for the World's 365 Most Influential People by David Kopp (Harvest House), a book chosen to be placed on the breakfast table settings for the National Day of Prayer in Washington D.C.

On the home front, she and husband Steve raised their children (two boys and two girls) in a number of different locations: Houston, Seattle, Hong Kong. Each time, they returned back to California where Steve’s consumer products company was headquartered. One of her favorite memories is sitting in a 44-story high rise in Hong Kong, overlooking the South China Sea, and writing articles—sent via the newly-hatched-and-full-of-kinks Internet—back to Christian Parenting Today or Marriage Partnership or other magazines.

So, after returning back from four years in Hong Kong, Suzanne found she had lost her “writing wind.” There was a lot going on in her family life—her dad was starting to show symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease, her kids were acclimating to life back in the states. The older two were starting to drive (oh dear, oh dear, oh dear); college was looming on the horizon for her eldest. A lot at stake, it seemed.

Out of the blue, Suzanne's niece sent her the book If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland, first published in 1938. Just the needed "oomph factor!" She had an idea for a novel... and just started to write. And write. And write. And re-write.

That story? Copper Star, published by Vintage in June 2007. Its sequel, Copper Fire, will be released in May 2008.

All in all, she’s grateful to the Lord for giving her a love of words, and The Word.

Copper Star

Suzanne Woods Fisher
Vintage Romance Publishing (2007)
ISBN 9780979332746
Reviewed by Kam Aures for RebeccasReads (5/08)

Copper Fire

Suzanne Woods Fisher
Vintage Romance Publishing (2007)
ISBN 9780981559209
Reviewed by Kam Aures for RebeccasReads (3/08)

 

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