Site updated: February 15, 2010
Castaway Island: A boy and his two sisters find an abandoned lifeboat, climb aboard, and go out with the tide. They end up on a deserted island and have adventures before being rescued.
A Martian Story: A short story about a little Martian girl who's not quite like others her age. What could be the reason?
Marra's Promise (coming soon): A girl and her sister are captured by slavers and taken far away to another planet, where Marra must figure out how to keep her promise to bring her little sister safely home to earth again.
Not Quite Left Behind (coming soon): Life during the Tribulation from the eyes of a 12-year-old girl who was "left behind." I wrote it 30 years before the famous Left Behind Kids series. I guess I should have done something about this story much sooner.
The Stars Know the Way (coming much later): Five children accidentally end up on an experimental spaceship headed for a planet circling the star, Sirius--8 light years away. They are stranded on the planet until rescued. (This book is hand-copied into a hard-bound book of blank pages, so it will take a while to type).
If you want to read some of the stories I wrote as a kid and young teen, click on the links below:
generously lets us hang out at her stables and take pictures of "Taffy" and "Dixie" (the pinto horse, Patches, in Andrea Carter and the Family Secret).
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Click the graphic to hear an interview with KNEO about San Francisco Smugglers:
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I speak at schools, young author conferences, and homeschool groups. If you are interested in learning more about that, click here:
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I started writing stories when I was about ten years old. I never intended to become a published author. I just liked writing stories for myself and for my younger sister, Julie. Once I began sharing my stories outside my family, enough people encouraged me to submit to publishers. They wouldn't let me give up! With the publication of the first book in my Circle C Adventures, Andrea Carter and the Long Ride Home, I discovered that is really is more fun to share my stories with others then to keep them to myself.
I have a degree in elementray education and love to teach. I taught in Christian schools before I began home schooling. After twenty years, I've
"Wholesome Books for Kids"
Susan K. Marlow
Find out what I was like as a kid in this fun interview by Crystal Laine Miller: Kids Who Grew Up to Write for Kids. Just click on the photograph below!
finished home schooling but find myself "back in the saddle" as I help out other home schooling families, including my grandchildren. I teach writing workshops for kids, speak at schools about the writing process, am a freelance editor, enjoy my eight grandkids, and . . . write stories, of course.
I've had a lot of fun writing the Circle C Adventures. In this picture I'm enjoying some time with Star ("Taffy"). I wish Star were mine, but he belongs to my friend Vicki, who
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Click on the graphic to listen to an interview with me from BlogTalkRadio about writing and publishing:
I'm a member of SCBWI
Click on "Taffy" to gallop over to Andi's blog!
Stories I wrote as a kid . . .
