Susan Klaus, noted Sarasota author, will talk about Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing at Selby Library, Sarasota, Tuesday, March 3. The meeting begins at 6 pm, is free and open to visitors and members.
The brief talk, followed by a Q&A session, will be helpful for writers of many genres, from aspiring authors to those published.
Susan Klaus is an author of fantasy and thrillers and has been in Amazon Top 100 authors of Mystery/Romance. Tor Books published her fantasy, Flight of the Golden Harpy in 2014. It won the Silver President Award for Best Fantasy. The sequel, Flight of the Golden Harpy, Waylaid was released in 2016. Both novels won the Royal Palm Literary Award for Best Fantasy and are Amazon Bestsellers for Epic Fantasy. The third novel in the trilogy will be published in 2020.
Secretariat Reborn, the first Florida thriller in the Christian Roberts Series, was released by Oceanview Publishing in 2013 and merited the Silver President Award for Best Adult Florida Fiction and is an Amazon Bestseller. The sequel, Shark Fin Soup won the RPLA for Second Best Unpublished Thriller and the Silver Presidential Award for Best Action/Suspense. Wolf in the Crosshairs, the third novel, was released Oct. 2019 and merited the International Thrill Writers award for Best First Sentence.
Klaus is president/founder of the Sarasota Authors Connection Club with 200 members. For nine years she was the radio host for the Authors Connection Show with 18 million listeners. She was born in Sarasota, and resides in Myakka City, on a 40-acre farm where she has bred and raced Thoroughbred horses and now raises rodeo bulls.
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On the Web: https://www.sarasotafictionwriters.com/
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