Diana Palmer (author)


Susan Kyle, née Susan Eloise Spaeth is an American writer who was known as Diana Palmer and has published romantic novels since 1979. She has also written romances as Diana Blayne, Katy Currie, and under her married name Susan Kyle and a science fiction novel as Susan S. Kyle.
Before writing fiction, she was a journalist for sixteen years under her birth name. Now, she has over 150 books in print, more of them translated and published around the world. Her novel Diamond Girl was made into a movie that was released in 1998 for television.

Biography

Personal life

Born Susan Eloise Spaeth on December 12, 1946, in Cuthbert, Georgia, United States. She was the eldest daughter of Maggie Eloise Cliatt, a nurse and also journalist, and William Olin Spaeth, a college professor. She and her younger sister, Dannis Spaeth, were raised in Chamblee, Georgia, where Susan graduated from Chamblee High School in 1964. She grew up reading Zane Grey and fell in love with cowboys.
On 9 October 1972, she married to James Edward Kyle, with whom she had one son, Blayne Kyle in 1980. Their son married with Christina Clayton, they are both graduates of Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia, and live in Tennessee, and they have a daughter, Selena Marie Kyle, born in February 2009 and a son Donovan Edward Kyle born in September 2012. While thinking for a new story she remembered one of her friends from the past who had an amnesia after a car accident, which gave her a hint for a new twist.
At 54, she went back to college, inspired by her husband who quit his job to pursue his diploma in computer programming. She graduated summa cum laude from Piedmont College, Demorest, Georgia, in 1995 with a major in history and a double minor in Archaeology and Spanish. She was named to two honor societies, and was named to the National Dean's List. In addition to her writing projects, she was working on her master's degree in history at California State University where she plans on specializing in Native American studies.
She was a member of the Native American Rights Fund, the American Museum of Natural History, the National Cattlemen's Association, the Archaeological Institute of America, 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.

Writing career

She was a former newspaper reporter, with sixteen years experience on both daily and weekly newspapers, including The Gainesville Times and the now defunct Tri-County Advertiser in Clarkesville, Georgia, before began to write novels seriously. She began selling romance novels in 1979 to MacFadden Romance under the pseudonym Diana Palmer. In 1980, she wrote The Morcai Battalion, a science fiction novel as Susan S. Kyle, continued under the pseudonym Diana Palmer 28 years later. From 1982 to 1990, she wrote by Dell Publishing seven novels under the pseudonym Diana Blayne. In 1984, she sold a novel by Silhouette Books under the pseudonym Katy Currie. She also used her married name, Susan Kyle, from 1988 to 1995 to sell seven romance novels to Warner Books.
Now, she only used her most popular pseudonym Diana Palmer and writes for three New York publishing houses: Mira Books, Silhouette Books, and Fawcett Books. She has over 150 books in print, more of them translated and published around the world.
Her novel Diamond Girl was made into a movie, released in 1998, for television.

Awards

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 Romance Writers of America awards. In 1998, a Japanese Harlequin reader poll gave her Silhouette Desire novel, The Patient Nurse, its favorite book of the year award. She was 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. She had also been awarded the Romantic Times 1992-1993 Career Achievement Award Winner for series storyteller of the year. She had also been invited to speak at Romance conventions; Palmer presented a session topic, Moving from Series Romance to Mainstream Romance, at the 9th annual Harriet Austin Writers Conference in 2002. In 2012, her alma mater, Piedmont College gave her the award of Distinguished Alumni for her contributions to the field of literature.

As Diana Palmer

Single novels

  1. Wyoming Tough
  2. Wyoming Fierce
  3. Wyoming Bold
  4. Wyoming Strong
  5. Wyoming Rugged
  6. Wyoming Brave
  7. Wyoming Winter
  8. Wyoming Legend

    Whitehall series

  9. Lacy
  10. The Cowboy and the Lady
  11. Darling Enemy

    Friends and Lovers series

  12. Friends and Lovers
  13. Rage of Passion

    Big Spur, Texas series

  14. Heather's Song
  15. Passion Flower

    Soldier of Fortune series

  16. Soldier of Fortune
  17. The Tender Stranger
  18. Enamored
  19. Mercenary's Woman
  20. The Winter Soldier
  21. The Last Mercenary

    Rawhide and Lace series

  22. Rawhide and Lace
  23. Unlikely lover

    Blake Donovan series

  24. Fit for a King
  25. Reluctant Father

    The Men of Medicine Ridge Series

  26. Circle of Gold
  27. The Wedding in White
  28. Diamond in the Rough
  29. Will of Steel

    Long, Tall Texans Series

  30. The Founding Father
  31. Calhoun
  32. Justin
  33. Tyler
  34. Sutton's Way
  35. Ethan
  36. Connal
  37. Harden
  38. Evan
  39. Donavan
  40. Emmet
  41. Regan's Pride
  42. That Burke Man
  43. Redbird
  44. Coltrain's Proposal
  45. Paper Husband
  46. A Long Tall Texan Summer
  47. Christmas Cowboy
  48. The Princess Bride
  49. Beloved
  50. Callaghan's Bride
  51. Love with a Long, Tall Texan
  52. Matt Caldwell: Texas Tycoon
  53. The Texas Ranger
  54. A Man of Means
  55. Lionhearted
  56. Man in Control
  57. Lawless
  58. Cattleman's Pride
  59. Renegade = One Night in New York
  60. Carrera's Bride
  61. Boss Man
  62. Outsider
  63. Heartbreaker
  64. Lawman
  65. Winter Roses
  66. Iron Cowboy
  67. Fearless'
  68. Heart of Stone
  69. Heartless
  70. The Maverick
  71. Tough to tame
  72. Dangerous
  73. Merciless
  74. True Blue
  75. Courageous
  76. Protector
  77. Invincible
  78. Texas Born
  79. Untamed
  80. Defender
  81. Undaunted
  82. Unbridled
  1. His Girl Friday
  2. Hunter

    The Case of the Most Wanted series

  3. The Case of the Mesmerizing Boss
  4. The Case of the Confirmed Bachelor
  5. The Case of the Missing Secretary

    Night of Love series

  6. Night of Love
  7. King's Ransom
  8. Secret Agent Man
  1. Maggie's Dad
  2. Man of Ice
  1. Once in a Paris
  2. Paper Rose
  3. Lord of the Desert
  4. The Texas Ranger
  5. Desperado
  1. The Morcai Battalion -
  2. The Morcai Battalion: The Recruit
  3. The Morcai Battalion: Invictus
  4. The Morcai Battalion: The Rescue
  5. The Morcai Battalion: The Pursuit

    Men At Work series multi-author

The Morcai Battalion Series

  1. The Morcai Battalion -
  2. The Morcai Battalion: The Recruit
  3. The Morcai Battalion: Invictus

    Lovestruck! series multi-author

Single Novels

Single Novel