Susan Sloate

Susan Sloate is the author or co-author of 26 published books, including FORWARD TO CAMELOT: The Final Edition (with Kevin Finn), STEALING FIRE and REALIZING YOU (with Ron Doades). Her 26th book, SCENES FROM A SONG, is already receiving laudatory reviews.

The original 2003 edition of FORWARD TO CAMELOT was a #6 Amazon bestseller, took honors in three literary competitions and was optioned by a Hollywood company for film production. STEALING FIRE went to #2 in its category on Amazon on publication and remained a Hot New Release for three months. It was also honored in the 2014 Readers Favorite Book Award Competition. REALIZING YOU pioneered the self-help FICTION genre and remains a reader favorite.

Susan is also the author of 17 young-adult books, both fiction and non-fiction, including MYSTERIES UNWRAPPED: THE SECRETS OF ALCATRAZ, which led to her appearance on an Alcatraz special on The History Channel in 2009. She has written books for five girls' fiction series, as well as five Y/A biographies. Her Ray Charles biography, FIND ANOTHER WAY!, won the silver medal for Multi-Cultural Nonfiction in the 2007 Children's Moonbeam Book Awards. She edits the popular KYLE & COREY book series for middle-grade mystery author Joe Stephens.

She has run two political campaigns and founded a recent Writers Workshop for aspiring playwrights and screenwriters in her hometown outside Charleston, SC.