Author Profiles
Ohio has a rich literary heritage as well as some wonderful contemporary authors. Learn more about them here! You can sort by various categories and see who has participated in our annual book festival by using the category search on the left, or search by keyword (including partial author names) by using the search field on the right.
Susan Gee Heino
I was always one of those kids constantly writing stories and forcing my parents—and my sisters, teachers, friends, neighbors, and the family dog—to read them. I wrote stories about everything from animals and Star Wars to worms and haunted school buses. One thing was constant, though: there was always a happy ending.
In college, my talents led my into the Theatre where I discovered writing scripts for others to perform was a whole lot more fun than memorizing
someone else’s.…
I was always one of those kids constantly writing stories and forcing my parents—and my sisters, teachers, friends, neighbors, and the family dog—to read them. I wrote stories about everything from animals and Star Wars to worms and haunted school buses. One thing was constant, though: there was always a happy ending.
In college, my talents led my into the Theatre where I discovered writing scripts for others to perform was a whole lot more fun than memorizing
someone else’s. After several years working with improvisational groups, collegiate drama, small community theatres, church drama ministries, and whatever other job helped to pay the bills, I figured it was time to settle down. I accepted the permanent role of preacher’s wife and child herder.
To preserve my sanity, I took my love of happy endings and began to focus on writing romance. In 2008 I won RWA’s Golden Heart ® Award in the Regency Historical category and my first book, MISTRESS BY MISTAKE, was published by Berkley Sensation in 2009. Since then, I have gone on to publish multiple Historical Romances all set in the fascinating Regency time period.
Today I’m living out my own Happily-Ever-After in rural Ohio with an ever-changing menagerie of creatures, my very supportive husband, and the two most adorable –and frighteningly creative– children imaginable. We are all addicted to happy endings, and that seems to be working out just fine.