Meet Children's Author, Suzanne Lieurance
Writer, Suzanne Lieurance brings a wealth of experience and insight to the craft of writing for children. Suzanne's creative writing techniques and skills bring dramatic historical events to life and her thorough research mines fascinating details that make history relevant to young readers.
Suzanne has written three nonfiction books for Enslow publishers, "The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and Sweatshop Reform", "The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster" and "The Prohibition Era". These books are excellent spring boards to support social studies curriculum. Some of her other books include, "Shoelaces", Children's Press, "Pennies", a Rookie Reader book published by Children's Press, "A Child's First Tooth" and "A Children's First Pet". In addition to her busy writing schedule Suzanne is also an instructor for Institute of Children's Literature. She also teaches writing workshops online for Coffeehouse for Writers. Suzanne also is a contributor to Smart Writers.com. and "Family Fun" magazine.
Please visit her informative website and read her books for excellent examples of good writing and some real good information. http://suzannelieurance.smartwriters.com http://www.coffeehouseforwriters.com/wri...
1.SR: Suzanne,is there anyone from your childhood who influenced, inspired or encouraged you in your writing endeavors?
SL: My parents read many, many books when I was a child. I remember going to the library with my mom and coming home with armloads of books that she would stack on a table next to her bed so she could read them at night, as well as other books she would read to me. In the evenings, my father was always on the living room couch with a book in his hands. So, books always seemed pretty important to me. Then, my fifth grade teacher used to let us write plays and act them out in class. I wrote a few plays (I had no idea what I was doing, of course) and my friends and I acted them out and the class loved them. I got hooked on the applause. Later, in high school, I wrote stories and so did some of my friends, and we would read them aloud to the rest of the class before school started. It was amazing how interested everyone was in our stories. I felt that writing held a certain kind of magic.
2.SR: How did you get interested in writing and writing for children?
SL: I've always loved to write (as you found out from my answer to your previous question). I started writing things for children after my two sons were born
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