Diana Palmer

Author · 287 books

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. Diana Palmer is a pseudonym for author Susan Kyle. (1)romance author Susan Eloise Spaeth was born on 11 December 1946 in Cuthbert, Georgia, USA. She was the eldest daughter of Maggie Eloise Cliatt, a nurse and also journalist, and William Olin Spaeth, a college professor. Her mother was part of the women's liberation movement many years before it became fashionable. Her best friends are her mother and her sister, Dannis Spaeth (Cole), who now has two daughters, Amanda Belle Hofstetter and Maggie and lives in Utah. Susan grew up reading Zane Grey and fell in love with cowboys. Susan is a former newspaper reporter, with sixteen years experience on both daily and weekly newspapers. 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 and her husband have one son, Blayne Edward, born in 1980. She began selling romances in 1979 as Diana Palmer. She also used the pseudonyms Diana Blayne and Katy Currie, and her married name: Susan Kyle. Now, she has over 40 million copies of her books in print, which have been translated and published around the world. She is listed in numerous publications, including Contemporary Authors by Gale Research, Inc., Twentieth Century Romance and Historical Writers by St. James Press, The Writers Directory by St. James Press, the International Who's Who of Authors and Writers by Meirose Press, Ltd., and Love's Leading Ladies by Kathryn Falk. Her awards include seven Waldenbooks national sales awards, four B. 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. 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. 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. She was named to two honor societies (the Torch Club and Alpha Chi), and was named to the National Dean's List. In addition to her writing projects, she is currently working on her master's degree in history at California State University. She hopes to specialize in Native American studies. 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. Her hobbies include gardening, archaeology, anthropology, iguanas, astronomy and music. In 1998, her husband retired from his own computer business and now pursues skeet shooting medals in local, state, national and international competition. They love riding around and looking at the countryside, watching sci-fi on TV and at the movies, just talking and eating out.

Series

Books

Silver Bells

Cattleman's Choice

Diamond in the Rough

Married by Christmas

Cattleman's Woman

Colorado Country

Texas Born & Smokin' Six-Shooter

Lady Love

Fearless

Christmas Cowboy

A Matter of Trust

The Rancher & Heart of Stone

Men of the West

Long, Tall Texans

The Texas Ranger

A Lone Star Hero

Man of Ice

Blessings in Disguise

Dangerous

Coltrain & Marshall

Texas Honor

Wyoming Tough and Wyoming Fierce

The Cowboy And The Lady

Long, Tall Texans

Emmett

Long, Tall Texans

Cowboy True

The Case of the Confirmed Bachelor

The Winter Man

Trilby

Nora

The Founding Father

Lawman

Night of Love

Long, Tall Texans (Volume 1)

Sweet Enemy

Invincible

The Hart Brothers

Texas Tycoon & Hidden Pleasures

Enamored & Claim Me, Cowboy

Tough to Tame

Bound by a Promise

The Winter Soldier

The Rescue

Lord of the Desert

Blaze of Glory

Callaghan's Bride

Lacy

A Rancher's Kiss

Once In Paris

Fit for a King

The Rawhide Man

Noelle

Colorado Cowboy

Texas Proud

The Texas Ranger

Wyoming Proud

Blaze Of Glory

Taming a Texan

Love's Legacy

Monarch of the desert (Flower Comics Special MIRA) (2004) ISBN

THE TEXAS RANGER/DESPERADO

Nelson's Brand / Lonetree Ranchers

Unlikely Alliances

Texas Born

Hoodwinked

Soldier of Fortune

Long, Tall Texans

Camino del altar; Un hombre sin piedad

Long, Tall Texans

The Snow Man

Untameable

Texas Tough

A Texas Christmas

Maggie's Dad

More Than Words

If Winter Comes

Boss Man