Best selling southern author, Susan Reinhardt is known for her gift of weaving wit, humor and heart into serious topics and infusing them with wisdom. She has been praised for creating unforgettable, quirky characters who linger in readers’ minds.

Her debut novel, CHIMES FROM A CRACKED SOUTHERN BELLE, won the ‘Best Regional Fiction’ award in the 2014 Independent Publishers Book Awards contest. She’s also a #1 Amazon bestseller. This novel was a top summer reading and book club pick. Susan’s books are popular with book-clubs specific to women’s fiction and romantic comedies.

She also writes non-fiction humor. Her titles include NOT TONIGHT HONEY: WAIT ’TIL I’M A SIZE 6, praised by Publishers Weekly as ‘fun and fresh’ and  ‘filled with lyrical prose.’ Booklist lauded her work as ’ranging from side-splitting to achingly poignant.’ She’s been compared to a modern-day, southern-fried Erma Bombeck or Dave Barry.

Susan Reinhardt is a former syndicated columnist for Gannett Newspapers and has written for national publications where she won multiple awards.

She lives in the gorgeous Blue Ridge Mountains, near Asheville, North Carolina, and is on her second husband.