Susan C. Yarina has been writing since the age of three when she would stand in her favorite room of the house-the sun room-and scrawl big loopy circles on paper (as seen at right). She would then hand the paper to bystanders and demand that they read her story. She positively didn’t like her brother’s readings, thought maybe her sister’s were okay, but mostly loved her mother’s and her adored Aunt Marty and Aunt Lottie’s interpretations best of all. She’s been writing ever since.
 Fulfilling a lifelong dream, Susan writes at home full time now, and is happiest pottering about in her pajamas, bringing characters who demand it to life by capturing them and dashing them down on the written page. Even when these characters make their demands in the middle of the night, Susan faithfully gets up and writes them down, making her husband a little sleep deprived at times. Being the darling husband he is, though, he supports her in every way and even smiles and encourages her when she buys shameless numbers of books.
Susan’s six romances are available in most any electronic format and in print. Susan is a great proponent of e-books and believes the medium will reach today’s "computer kids" and entice them into the world of books. She loves speaking on the subject of digital books as "the wave of the future" and recently spoke about them to a group of students at Arizona State University. The students were enticed by the idea of carrying all their textbooks in one e-book reader and eagerly gobbled up the latest news in this changing-as-you-read medium.
Susan Yarina’s award winning romance time travel novels set in present day and late 1800’s Arizona smack of the "real thing." That might be because besides being an author, she is a registered nurse and a rancher. Susan is proud to acknowledge that you can find TimeRider and TimeQuest for sale permanently in Superstition Mountain Museum in Apache Junction where they’re valued for their historic value and realistic depiction of the Apache.
In addition to her fiction, Susan also has a non-fiction short story in the hardback Warner book Feathers Brush My Heart called A Cardinal Sign. The short stories in Feathers tells of gifts mothers give their daughters after they pass away. It is a marvelous collection of evidence that the unique bond mothers and daughters share, passes beyond this life, and is as varied as the mothers and daughters themselves. Feathers makes a great Mother’s Day gift to someone special.
Susan lives with her husband Joe-now that her children Martin and Natalie are grown- and her menagerie of horses, dogs, cats and a large variety of wildlife in the foothills of the mighty Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix, where they laugh, love and live.
~Happy Reading and Happy Trails |
