A literary chameleon of Harlequin medical romance and southern tales

Kicking off Season Two is Susan May, who spills the secrets in our next episode of Quixotic Heights Podcast. She dishes out steamy romance stories for Harlequin, but not just any romance... medical romance! Susan May also writes under the names Susan Carlisle and S. Carlisle May.

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Susan’s love affair with books began in the sixth grade, after she received a poor grade in math on her report card. (She still doesn’t like math.) Not allowed to watch TV for the next six weeks until she brought the grade up, she filled her extra time with books.

After her first child was born, she gave some thought to writing. However, it fell by the wayside after her daughter was born, and it was pushed even further away when her second son appeared. By the time Nick, her final son and fourth baby in five years, arrived, it had become out of the question. Nick really put a kink into her writing. He was born with a heart defect and had to have a heart transplant when he was only two. It took over three years for life to settle down enough before Susan could even think about writing his story.

Like other wannabe writers, she piddled around with it and nearly talked it to death, that is, until she joined a writing group. One of the all-time worst spellers and particularly stinking at grammar, she worked hard, determined to tell Nick’s story. After numerous rejections, she finally sold Nick’s New Heart. That was the first of her almost 50 books. She has other nonfiction books - A WWII Flight Surgeon’s Story and Daily Inspirations from the Unflappable Substitute. She has also written over 35 romance novels for Harlequin.

She is currently working on an account of how she traveled around Europe with her four teenage children and a romance for an entire summer. She enjoys reading, sewing, and traveling. And James Bond.

https://susancmay.com/

https://www.susancarlisle.com/

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