Susan Stephenson Email and Phone Number

Life dropped me in Alaska one day which was followed one afternoon aboard the iconic MV Princeton Hall while Kathy Ruddy fumbled with a tiny scrap of paper towel, dropping it into the oil stove to heat the salon, her fingers stiff and frozen from winter in the harbor. From that day, I sailed into countless harbors and anchorages. As the poet said, "My glory was my friends." Bill and Kathy Ruddy generously made the MV Princeton Hall available to many a crew and traveler who did not want to provision for a five or seven-day cruise. Far and wide, word had it that I would gladly provide the dreaded task of menus, shopping, and provisioning. The rest is history except for the three-microphones later part, multiple generations of software, and finally, my YouTube channel. I struggle to get acceptable recordings (Lymes disease) but I feel responsible for sharing what I have seen that so fascinates the world: ALASKA'S INSIDE PASSAGE! I hope the spirit of those pieces carry in spite of perhaps poor focus or flawed voiceovers! Along the way, I completed my book, “FONDLY, BOB,” which bears rather the handsome medallions of the Storytrade Book Awards for “demonstrating exceptional literary craft, excellence, and innovation.” I believe the “innovation” part is because I typeset the book myself. The categories in which I won my awards were the 2024 Storytrade Book Awards “Prodigy Award Nonfiction” category and a finalist in “Motivational/Self-Help”! A word of encouragement (after all, my award is for “Motivational/Self-Help”) would be that as with many/most writers, we bring to the table our “imposter syndrome. I was encouraged to enter in that category in spite of that august award description, and BINGO! Whooda thunk? These are presented on my website, TheStudioSusan.com.