In 1998, her husband retired from his own computer business and now pursues skeet shooting medals in local, state, national and international competition. Her hobbies include gardening, archaeology, anthropology, iguanas, astronomy and music. She is a member of the Native American Rights Fund, the American Museum of Natural History, the National Cattlemen's Association, the Archaeological Institute of Amenca, the Planetary Society, The Georgia Conservancy, the Georgia Sheriff's Association, and numerous conservation and charitable organizations.

She hopes to specialize in Native American studies. In addition to her writing projects, she is currently working on her master's degree in history at California State University. She was named to two honor societies (the Torch Club and Alpha Chi), and was named to the National Dean's List. In 1995, she graduated summa cum laude from Piedmont College, Demorest, GA, with a major in history and a double minor in archaeology and Spanish. Inspired by her husband, who quit a blue-collar manufacturing job to return to school and get his diploma in computer programming, Susan herself went back to college as a day student at the age of 45. Dalton national sales awards, two Bookrak national sales awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award for series storytelling from Romantic Times, several Affaire de Coeur awards, and two regional RWA awards.

Her awards include seven Waldenbooks national sales awards, four B. James Press, the International Who's Who of Authors and Writers by Meirose Press, Ltd., and Love's Leading Ladies by Kathryn Falk. James Press, The Writers Directory by St. She is listed in numerous publications, including Contemporary Authors by Gale Research, Inc., Twentieth Century Romance and Historical Writers by St. Now, she has over 40 million copies of her books in print, which have been translated and published around the world. She also used the pseudonyms Diana Blayne and Katy Currie, and her married name: Susan Kyle. 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 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. Susan Spaeth was born on December 11, 1946.

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