Susan Sherman is co-creator of two mega hits for The Disney Channel, That’s So Raven and Raven’s Home. During her ten-year tenure in TV, she worked on such shows as Boy Meets World, Clueless and Alright Already. Eventually, she traded the writer’s room for the world of publishing—a decision born out of complete creative exhaustion (i.e. bored to death).
Susan’s debut novel, The Little Russian, was named a "Great New Read in Fiction" by People magazine, followed by If You Are There. Her latest work, Joy on the Moon, equal parts cozy locked-door mystery and a satire of literary culture arrives in Summer 2027, published by Counterpoint Press.
The Little Russian tells the story of Berta Alshonsky, who revels in childhood memories of her time spent with a wealthy family in Moscow—a life filled with salons, balls and all the trappings of the upper class—very different from her current life as a grocer's daughter in the Jewish townlet of Mosny. So when a mysterious and cultured wheat merchant walks into the grocery, Berta's life is forever altered. She falls in love, unaware that he is a member of the Bund, The Jewish Worker's League, smuggling arms to the shtetls to defend them against the pogroms sweeping the Little Russian countryside.
Set in the early 1900s, If You Are There follows young Lucia Rutkowski who, thanks to the influence of her beloved grandmother, escapes the Warsaw ghetto to work as a kitchen maid in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the bustling city of Paris. Too talented for her lowly position, Lucia is thrown out on the street. Her only recourse is to take a job working for two disorganized, rather poor married scientists so distracted by their work that their house and young child are often neglected. Lucia soon bonds with her eccentric employers, watching as their work with radioactive materials grows increasing noticed by the world, then rising to fame as the great Marie and Pierre Curie.