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Susan Uhlig, Author
     Writing for Children

When I was a child, I never met an author, so I couldn't imagine being one.  Instead I went to college and learned about computers.  When my children were little I got interested in books for kids.  I took a correspondence course and eventually sold my first story to a magazine in 1992. I still like computers, but I like writing more!


 

I do most of my writing using a computer.  If I'm not working at home, I take my laptop and work in a library, bookstore or coffee shop.

I do a lot of pre-writing--just thinking about a story--when I lay in bed at night, driving or riding in a car, waiting in a doctor's office.

My husband and I
on vacation last summer.

I like to read historical fiction, fantasy, sci fi, Christian fiction, contemporary novels, middle grade and YA novels, picture books.

Some of my favorite children's book authors are:

Cynthia Voight                  Louis Sachar                  Willo Davis Roberts
Gail Carson Levine            Robin McKinley               Lorie Ann Grover
Frank Peretti                    Sharon Creech                Christopher Paul Curtis
Joan Holub                       JK Rowling                     Tamora Pierce
Chris Crutcher                  Carl Hiaasen                   Janet Lee Carey

Nancy Farmer                  Marion Dane Bauer          Brian Jacques
Diana Wynne Jones
Copyright 2006 Susan Uhlig. All rights reserved.