Author Suzanne Fox at her home in Vero Beach. She began her career in a small way. “Anybody who would pay me a dollar to write something, I was all over it,” she recalls.
For the past 28 years Suzanne Fox has maintained body and soul as a professional writer. She has succeeded as much by her ability to adapt to the whims of clients and changes in the literary market as by her talent as a wordsmith. Not only has she written for money and for love, she has written about money and about love – everything from finance to pulp romance. Her work has been published, among others, by Harlequin, Simon & Schuster and Berkley Penguin Putnam. Now, after years of writing for others, she is publishing her work under her own imprimatur, BookStrategy, as well as through commercial publishers.
Suzanne insists that the various genres and styles in which she has written only seem disparate. Under the facade of her diversity is the theme of change, movement and transformation. “That’s also the theme of my life,” she says. “It’s about having the attention, the courage and the inner growth to allow my work to change, to ebb and flow. To even allow my ostensible career at times to change.”
The literary butterfly that Suzanne would become grew up a caterpillar in Caldwell, N.J., the child of native New Jerseyans. Her parents met at her father’s family’s clothing store in Newark, where the future Mrs. Fox had come to work. They married, and Suzanne’s dad took a job as the office manager for a large law firm in Paterson. Her mom worked odd jobs to help make ends meet.
Suzanne says that her parents’ work ethic was one of the most important influences of her childhood. Born in 1955, she and her twin brother, Andy, were the couple’s first children; another daughter, Vicki, came six years later.
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