Hi, and Welcome to my website!

I'm Susan Williams Beckhorn and I write for children because, when I was a kid, books meant everything to me. I just figured someday it would be my turn to tell my own stories.

I love to visit schools and share what I do with kids. I would have been thrilled to have an author or illustrator visit my school. It would have made me feel that my dream was possible.

Introducing...

Moose Eggs, or Why Moose Have Flat Antlers
Release Date: September 1, 2007

Two earnest but not very well informed friends attempt to find and incubate moose eggs so that Moose can have some youngsters to raise. No surprise that they are not successful. The characters are bumbling but well-intentioned fellows who get themselves into scrapes that all work out okay in the end. This is a charmingly imaginative explanation of how Moose got his big, flat antlers; droopy nose; and wide hooves.

Great News!

I will be part of the faculty for the Highlights Foundation Chautauqua Conference July 12-19 2008. This is a dream-come-true for me. I attended as a star-struck young writer, with my first short story (Why Raccoon has a Black Mask and a Ringed Tail) just published in Cricket Magazine, in the summer of 1994. I returned again in 1998. My journal from that year says: During Patty Gauch's (Senior Editor, Philomel Books) talk about character, I realized that a writer must have the same qualities as his/her protagonist: strength, originality, sassiness, determination, and the ability to grow. I can't say enough about the Chautauqua conference. If you have to pay the whole shot, it's worth every penny, and if you can't, the foundation is VERY generous with scholarships, so don't be shy, come join us!

http://www.highlightsfoundation.org/

More News!

Wind Rider will be published in paperback next fall with a beautiful new cover, and will be published in Germany as well as the USA. It also recently went "down under" with a great review in Horsetalk, Australasia's Equestrian Directory: www.horsetalk.co.nz/reviews/.