She began selling romances in 1979 as Diana Palmer. Susan and her husband have one son, Blayne Edward, born in 1980. Since 1972, she has been married to James Kyle and have since settled down in Cornelia, Georgia, where she started to write romance novels. Susan is a former newspaper reporter, with sixteen years experience on both daily and weekly newspapers.

Susan grew up reading Zane Grey and fell in love with cowboys. Her best friends are her mother and her sister, Dannis Spaeth (Cole), who now has two daughters, Amanda Belle Hofstetter and Maggie and lives in Utah. Her mother was part of the women's liberation movement many years before it became fashionable. She was the eldest daughter of Maggie Eloise Cliatt, a nurse and also journalist, and William Olin Spaeth, a college professor. Susan Eloise Spaeth was born on 11 December 1946 in Cuthbert, Georgia, USA. In my spare time, I sleep.Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.ĭiana Palmer is a pseudonym for author Susan Kyle. I write romantic suspense for HQN books, mass market and series contemporary romance for Harlequin, and science fiction novels for Luna Books. I am a person of faith, but I respect all religions and all cultures. Writing books is more than a job to me, it's my life, next to being a wife, mother and grandmother.

I traveled a lot when I was more mobile than I am now, and I never met a person I didn't like. My father was a college professor, so my sister and I grew up not quite understanding what prejudice was. I was always the kid who was out of step with the rest of the world, and I still am. If it's electronic, and non-lethal, I probably have one. I love iguanas and most other animals, and am the biggest geek on earth. In between reporting jobs, I had a son, Blayne, my greatest creative achievement. I worked for over 16 years as a newspaper reporter on both weekly and daily papers. I was born in south Georgia(USA), graduated from high school in Atlanta, married my husband, James, in Habersham County, and graduated from Piedmont College(Demorest, GA) summa cum laude in history with minors in anthropology and Spanish in 1995.

Lawless by diana palmer