Susan K. Beatty

Who says you can't begin a new career after middle age? Certainly not Susan K. Beatty. She is passionate about finding courage through faith and grit, particularly through the trials of breast cancer. Her daughter is a metastatic breast cancer "thriver" and has been an inspiration for her writing. Susan retired from a full-time job in 2017 and is now pursuing a novel-writing career. Her first novel, "Faces of Courage," debuted May 2021. Susan is the author of "An Introduction to Home Education" (AKA "California Homeschool Manual"), was the assistant director of the SoCal Christian Writers' Conference and is the president of her local ACFW-OC Chapter. She is a professional writer/journalist. Susan is proof you can begin a fiction writing career at any age.

Before starting her career as a fiction author, Susan K. Beatty was a veteran homeschool mom who co-founded Christian Home Educators Association (CHEA) of California with Karen Woodfin Middleton in 1982. Susan served on the CHEA Board of Directors and as CHEA’s general manager until 2017. She and her husband have graduated all of their children from homeschool as well