Author Susan Kehoe
A trip to Ireland was all it took to reignite a lifelong passion for writing, and author Susan K. Kehoe hasn’t looked back.
“I used to write when I was a kid,” the London, England native recalls. At age nine, her family moved to Canada, settling in Toronto, and eventually writing took a backseat to life. Retiring from a 40-year career in nursing Kehoe moved to the Belleville area in 1995 and settled into a quiet lifestyle involving gardening, dabbling in painting, and introspection.
In 2014 came the bus trip to Ireland which would change her world completely. The 14-day trip circumnavigated the entire island – the rich culture, the exquisite landscapes, the troubled history were laid before Kehoe like a grand invitation. And she discovered upon her return home that she had so many questions, and her solution was to begin to write. 
Her first book, “Ireland: Snapshots in Time” (2017), is a collection of ten short stories of historical fiction, each set in a different era, and tackling events spanning from 400 AD (“The Celtic Hero: The Making of a Warrior”), through 1651 and the siege by Oliver Cromwell (“The Last Violin”), 1837 (“The Famine: One More Day”), to present day (“The Bus”, which was inspired by her own trip).
Each story is a testament to countless hours of research. “I wanted all the details to be correct – the era, the clothing, weather and geology. I wanted to set the scene for the reader to be right there, in the middle of the story,” Kehoe says as she describes her process.
The process worked so well that she found herself writing three more books, novels based on completely different subject matter. “Nuggets” (2019) is a coming-of age tale set in the Caribou Gold Rush in 1860’s British Columbia, and was followed by the romance/suspense “Tango” (2022), which takes the reader from Kentucky to Argentina. Her most recent offering, “Viking Storm” will be launched “when it’s ready”. 
These days, Kehoe enjoys attending speaker’s events, meeting new people, and likely working on her next book.
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