Susan Arnout Smith
Screenwriter | Playwright | Author
About Susan
Susan Arnout Smith is an internationally published novelist, and a third generation Alaskan now living in San Diego.
She was an essayist for NPR Weekend-Edition Sunday, helped build the Alaska pipeline, and worked as a TV broadcast anchor.
Susan’s written movies for television and award winning plays. She’s shadowed beat cops, spent five weeks above the Arctic Circle in a native village and gone on a search for God.
A story she covered as a reporter about two missing children became the seed of her first thriller, THE TIMER GAME.
Bookloons
THE TIMER GAME: “Explosive, exciting, terrifying.”
Philadelphia Inquirer
THE FROZEN LADY: “Brilliant.”
The Hollywood Reporter
‘Different’ “The best of the best”
Publishers Weekly
OUT AT NIGHT: “A nail-biting premise”
The Sunday Telegraph
THE TIMER GAME “Nails the reader to the pages” (Italian translation)
Library Journal
OUT AT NIGHT: “Brilliantly human character.”
Evening Sun
Separation Rapid: “One of a kind show”
The Hollywood Reporter
Dying to be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story: “Thoughtful and thought-provoking.”
The Bay City Times
THE FROZEN LADY: “Deserves a place on the best seller list.”
Richmond Times-Dispatch
OUT AT NIGHT: “Heart pounding suspense”
Armchair Reviews
THE TIMER GAME: “Edge of the chair thriller. ”
