I Had to Laugh, My Bio

The experts in publicity all say you have to have a bio page. I am enough of an expert to know you have come here to read my fiction. Here are the facts, everything is nested beneath FREDERICK WENTWORTH, CAPTAIN on the menu in the header. This page gives you the jist of the series and links to pages with each novel’s synopsis and links to the indexes for each. Before each novel is published you are welcome to read them chapter-by-chapter for free. I will leave the complete novel up for a short time and when I publish, POOF, it disappears.

I hope you will enjoy reading, and also purchase a book when it is available. I need a way to keep my serious Wentworth addiction from putting me in the poor house.

As for the experts and what they say, here’s my bio:

The unofficial title of this blog is: “I Had to Laugh.” It is my contention that in practically all areas of life if you don’t laugh you’ll start crying and never stop. Hence the name.

I grew up in North Idaho, joined the United States Air Force at 18–Jimmy Carter and I served our country together–and I married at 19. My country, in its wisdom, determined they needed my female person in the aircraft maintenance career field more than they needed any actual skill. I was an unspectacular aircraft mechanic and a pretty good wing training geek. Those were the days when computers took up acres and still had less computing power than my antiquated flip phone. (I now have a smartphone as this was written nearly a decade ago.) I left the service when Reagan was inaugurated. It figures that I joined just in time for the Carter military decimation years and left just as another president was trying to restore some respect.

The Husband and I moved to Missouri to be near his family. We stayed for seven years, having two kids in the process. Then, in 1989 we moved to Portland, Oregon to help start a church. I met many great people along the way, one of the best was Laura Hile. Our kids grew up together and we learned to write together. In the course of writing, I met Pamela Aidan.

We are all still friends and still writing together. We are all older, wiser, and just as opinionated.

Now I write novels with the hopes of making a living. My philosophy of writing is:

Serious literary art tends to be honest; as such, it often confront realities–the search for love, the ugliness of evil, the futility of life without God, the mysterious splendors of ordinary life. ~ Gene Edward Veith, JR.

The fascinating modern age in which we live makes that a possibility.

From my lips to God’s ears.

Take care–Susan Kaye