Susan Diane Black Blackmon
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Susan Diane Black Blackmon

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In 1976, I fell in love with genealogy. I have my eighth-grade History teacher to thank for that. She assigned an autobiographical project requiring me to complete a pedigree chart. "The Tale of the Beautiful Princess - Or Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Me, But Were Afraid to Ask" resulted in two A+ grades. Over the next forty-six years, I amassed a collection of thousands of photographs and documents related to my family heritage. Most importantly, I spent countless hours listening to my MamMaw (grandmother) and my great-aunt tell stories about my ancestors. During that time, I compiled several books on genealogy and "published" them at the local print shop. In 2015 I published my first set of books through Amazon and the second set in 2017. In September of 2022, I completed a book that had been the dream of a cousin. He had always wanted to write a book based on Civil War letters he inherited from his great-grandmother by way of an aunt. The letters and other memorabilia "lived" in a pillow case inside a chair cushion for many years. My cousin passed away before he could realize his dream, and I had the honor of presenting these 158-year-old treasures in a format allowing the entire family to enjoy them. Hot on the heels of publishing this work came my sixtieth birthday. Turning sixty may have been the reason I allowed my older sister to shove me out of my wheelhouse of genealogy and into writing the book Emma. Older sisters can be pretty bossy, and this one has a sharp stick that she likes to poke me with, metaphorically. She kept encouraging me to try my hand at writing a book. I intended to write a short story based on our great-grandmother and a few events in her life. I had planned on a handful of pages, and it would be back to my next genealogy project. Two weeks later, I presented her with a 264-page rough draft of Emma. She read it, insisted I let other family members and friends read it, and the next thing you know, here we are. I enjoyed writing Emma so much and received such positive feedback about the book that I have completed the second volume in the Heritage Series, Celey. Who could have known that a Junior High School History assignment would turn into a passion for genealogy which has become a love of writing historical fiction novels?
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