November Reader of the month – Susan Skowronski

It’s especially nice to introduce Susan Skowronski as November Reader of the Month. Susan is a Toowoomba author of several delightful books but the one I particularly love is Farmers Kids, a collection of short stories that take you back to times when children made their own fun “OUTSIDE”. I describe Susan’s stories as being exactly like a Darcy Doyle painting in words.

Reader of the month:-

Tell us 5 Random Things about you the person.
1) Still madly in love with my husband and very proud of my lovely family

2) Mad keen on photography especially birds and grandkids

3) Love reading. I taught myself when very young so I could be better than my brothers.

4) Love writing – stories, poems, prayers and articles

5) Strong interest in social justice. Involved with Social Responsibility in Brisbane diocese of the Anglican Church

Favourite Authors – Carmel Rowley, of course. Also Estelle Pinney, John Grisham, Douglas Adams and many others

Where to connect online

Facebook – Susan Skowronski Author

Website – www.susanskowronski.com

Is there something you would like to share with us about your writing and some of the things you enjoy?

My husband says I have too many hobbies. I love patchwork and quilting, appliqué and embroidery, photography and scrapbooking, gardening, making jams and pickles, dried flowers, herbs and fruit.

But especially I love to write, and I love to talk to other writers. I am a member of Fellowship of Australian Writers Queensland and currently editor of their monthly magazine Scope – a great honour as far as I’m concerned as this magazine was first published in 1956 with Judith Wright as Editor. I enjoy the meetings and the fellowship. I am also a member of local writers groups in Toowoomba.

My collection of short stories Farmer’s Kids, which has been used in many schools in Queensland and interstate, tells the adventures of a farming family in the late fifties- early sixties when kids got up to a bit of harmless mischief. I have also published two children’s stories in which children are responsible for rescuing Australian wild life. I have won several writing competitions, including the Association of Writers @ Work Golden Pen Award three times. Some of my work has been included in anthologies, the latest being Words from Toowoomba by Toowoomba Wordsmiths

In the pipeline – another collection of adventures of the farmer’s kids, three more children and wildlife stories with the illustrator and a crime novel. How diverse is that?