Susan Grant is a

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veteran, pilot, and bestselling American writer who has won numerous awards, including the Romance Writers of America RITA Award.

Biography

Grant was born in New York. She graduated from the

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in 1982, the third class to include women, and was commissioned as an officer in the

. She attended pilot training at

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and stayed on for three more years as a flight instructor pilot in the T-37. Her next assignment was to

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, flying T-43s as a command pilot. Upon her honorable discharge from the Air Force in 1989, she went on to work for

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as a pilot, flying

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s, and

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s (current position). She began writing in 1997 and is now the author of many award-winning, best-selling novellas and novels, including ''Contact'', which won the 2003 Romance Writers of America RITA Award. She lives in

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Bibliography

Star series

* ''Star Raider'' (previous title ''The Star Queen'') (prequel, novella) * ''Star King'' (RITA finalist) * ''Star Prince'' * ''Star Princess'' (previous title ''Star Rogue'') * ''Star Champion'' (previous title ''The Champion of Barésh'') (RITA finalist) * ''Star Heroes'' (contains the novellas ''Star Puppy'' and ''Star Hero'')

2176 Freedom series

* ''The Legend of Banzai Maguire'' * ''The Scarlet Empress''

Otherworldly Men series

* ''Guardian Alien'' (previous title ''Your Planet or Mine?'') * ''Royally Mated'' (previous titles ''My Favorite Earthling'' and ''Royal Recruit'') * ''Cyborg and the Single Mom'' (previous title ''How to Lose an Extraterrestrial in 10 Days'')

Borderlands series

* ''Warleader'' (previous title ''Moonstruck'') (RITA finalist) * ''Hunting the Warlord’s Daughter'' (previous title ''The Warlord's Daughter'') * ''Raider Born'' (previous title ''Sureblood’')

Sky Mates series

* ''Hawk'' * ''Falcon''

The Lost Colony series

* ''The Last Warrior''

Stand-alone novels

* ''Contact'' (RITA winner) * ''Once a Pirate'' * ''The Day Her Heart Stood Still'' (novella)

Anthologies

* ''Mission: Christmas'' (featuring the novella “Snowbound With a Prince”) * ''Mysteria'' (featuring the novella “Mortal in Mysteria”) * ''Mysteria Lane'' (featuring the novella “The Nanny From Hell”) * ''Mysteria Nights'’ (bundle of ''Mysteria'' and ''Mysteria Lane'' anthologies)

References

External links

Susan Grant's Web pageSusan Grant’s Books
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