Susan M. Ballard has become known as the story teller. As one person once relayed to me, when he reads her words he feels like he is sitting in the room watching everything take place. Her way with words can take the reader to a time and place one can only imagine. A time when Doc Holliday, Kate and Wyatt Earp learned the boundaries of love and what that love, deep, intense and reciprocated, can do to save a life. Rich with the flavor of early day Tombstone, Ballard's historical fiction tells a story of Kate's love for her dentist companion, the competition for that love that she felt from his closest friend, Wyatt Earp, and her desires as a woman to be loved; even if that adoration doesn't come from Doc. Yes, SM Ballard has done it again. In the tradition of Borrowed Time, Holliday in Tombstone, Death Takes a Holliday and now KATE, Susan Ballard scores another hit with her story telling!! KATE, published by Goose Flats Publishing, the Blue Moon Division, is now available!!.

Susan shares a small ranch in Pearce, Cochise County, Arizona with her husband, Brian. She is a member of the Western Writers of America and the Ranching Heritage Association. Her work, both fiction and non-fiction, has been published in Wild West, Out West, Voice in the Desert, War Journal, Chronicle of the Old West and is a regular contributor to the Tombstone Times.

To find out more about the author visit her website SMBallard.com