Susan Flanagan is a freelance journalist willing to work for hire (for individuals or companies) writing and/or editing documents.

Her first published work appeared in a book called My Inside Self (Jesperson, 1979). In 1991 Susan completed a Bachelor of Journalism at King’s College in Halifax and has worked for radio (CBC), TV (CBC, NTV), newspapers and magazines. Her written works have appeared in Doctors’ Review, Atlantic Progress, Atlantic Business, Saltscapes, The Hockey News, The Telegram, The Seniors’ News and The Cloverdale Reporter. Susan contributed a bi-weekly column to The Newfoundland Herald until August 2004 when she moved to British Columbia. Since arriving in British Columbia Susan has completed two novels. The first, entitled Forty-eight Degrees, is a story of love and deceit set in Newfoundland and St. Pierre. The second is a young adult novel, called Select Availability. It deals with the kidnapping of an eleven-year-old boy on Vancouver Island. Police are then led on a wild goose chase through the interior of British Colombia seeking geocaches, hidden buckets placed by the kidnapper and retrieved with the help of coordinates and a handheld global positioning system.

Susan has also done extensive editing for other members of the Ram’s Head Writers’ Group.

She completed a Bachelor Degree in French and German at Memorial University (1989) in St. John’s. Her travels have taken her to Ibaraki, Japan where she taught English as a Second Language for the Federal Ministry of Education for two years with the JET Program. Susan has also worked or studied in France, Germany, Australia and Quebec.

In 1995, she started Flanagan’s Fancy Inc., a tour company specializing in motivational speaking corporate relocations. Within two years, the company had branched out to include 48 Degrees, a division created to respond to the demand for corporate media training, emergency preparedness training, press conference preparation and writing company profiles.

Susan currently lives in Cloverdale, B.C. with her husband and four children.