Susan May Warren is a RITA and Christy award winning inspirational suspense author with over 100 contemporary and historical romances published in more than 20 languages.

Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and on Binge Reading today Susan May talks about the adventure suspense she writes that takes her characters all over the world. She tells how she got started with her writing isolated in a Russian winter, and about her passion for mentoring beginner writers.

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These are the links for this episode:

The True Lies of Rembrandt Stone (With James L Rubart and David James Warren - a new time travel series.

https://www.amazon.com/The-True-Lies-of-Rembrandt-Stone-6-book-series/

Sky King Ranch Series https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58301634-sunrise

Deep Haven Collection : https://www.susanmaywarren.com/series/deep-haven-collection/

Tricia Goyer, with her Big Sky Montana series.

Lynette Eason Elite Guardians Series hal edrod

Rachel Hauck Heart's Bend Series

Hal Elrod Miracle Morning: https://halelrod.com/

Tari Faris - Christian romance

Ronie Kendig: https://www.christianbook.com/page/fiction/fiction-authors/ronie-kendig

Melissa Tagg: https://www.melissatagg.com/books

Lisa Jordan: Love Inspired series https://lisajordanbooks.com/

Lori Benton: Historicals: https://loribenton.com/

James Hannibal: https://jamesrhannibal.com/

Natalie Walters: https://www.nataliewalterswriter.com/

Where to find Susan May Warren: 

Website: https://www.susanmaywarren.com/

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @susanmaywarren

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SusanMayWarrenFiction

Twitter: http://twitter.com/susanmaywarren

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/NorthShoreSuz

What follows is a "near as" transcript of our conversation, not word for word but pretty close to it, with links to the show notes in The Joys of Binge Reading.com for important mentions.But now, here’s Susan.

Jenny Wheeler: Hello there, Susan and welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us.

Susan May Warren: I'm so happy to be here. Thanks for having me.

Introducing inspirational romance author Susan May Warren

Susan May Warren - Inspirational romance author

Jenny Wheeler: You have got a remarkable backlist, over 100 published books reaching across 20 different series, and that doesn't include the standalones and the non-fiction, and a range of different publishers as well. That is a tremendous span of a career. Tell us how all of this got started.

Susan May Warren: That's a good question. Standing here today, I would have never, ever dreamed that I would be here from where I started. As a writer, everybody has this bug to write. I was always a writer. I wrote my first novel when I was 14 years old, but I never thought I would be a novelist.

I was actually called into missions. I was a missionary for about 10 years with my husband and our four kids. We lived in far east Russia, which is otherwise known as Siberia. It was a very challenging time, but a good time.

During that time, I felt like I was supposed to be writing. I started by writing newsletters and communicating with our supporters back home but eventually stories started to enter into my mind and my heart, and I started to look into writing novels.  

I was a graduate of English at the University of Minnesota, so it wasn't like that was a far leap for me, but I did need to learn how to write a novel.

Susan May Warren got started on her writing in a Russian winter

I started writing novels and I started with a historical tome of Russia. It started in 1938 and went to 1985 or something like that.