She didn’t start writing until about five years ago. Now, Bailey author Susan Mahan has two books nominated for awards.
“Chrissie’s Run,” written under the author’s pen name, S.A. Mahan, is a finalist in the 2014 Dante Rossetti Awards Young Adult Novel Competition.
Mahan also found out that her children’s book, “The Baby Sea Turtle,” is one of three finalists ifor the 2015 Colorado Book Awards for Children’s Literature .
“I never thought I was any good,” Mahan said in an interview with The Flume. “I just kept writing though.”