Other books by Susan Baur

The Edge of An Unfamiliar World: A History of Oceanography and On Almost Any Wind: Both published under married name of Susan Schlee.

The Dinosaur Man: Tales of Madness and Enchantment From the Back Ward (1991), NY: HarperCollins,

Confiding:A Psychotherapist and Her Patients Search For Stories To Live By. (1994) NY: HarperCollins,

The Intimate Hour: Love and Sex in Psychotherapy (1997), NY: Houghton Mifflin Company.

The Love of Your Life: What We Learn In the Grip of Passion (2001). Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks.

The Turtle Sisters, a series of four self-published books for children. (published between 2010-13)

Hoping to be a novelist from the age of fourteen, I started writing imitation James Bond adventures when I was supposed to be doing my homework, substituting a much-improved me for "Bond, James Bond." When that went nowhere, I tried my hand at a bodice-ripper, then fell back on an imagined first-person account of the bombing of Hiroshima. No one had told me, "Write what you know."

In college I took every writing class available but the truth was I didn't know enough about anything to write a book on it. So I became a journalist. Covering meetings and miscellanea, I learned to write fast on just about any topic. Graduating to features, I had the luxury of spending up to three days on a piece. Living in Florida and writing articles on a research submarine led me to oceanography. I became what was called a trade non-fiction writer. My specialty was investigating dark areas that no one knew much about like the deep sea--or the human psyche.

When I wrote a book on the history of hypochondria--how that painful anxiety has been viewed over the centuries-- i was told that the book was good BUT, I wasn't an expert. I returned to school, got degrees in psychology, published the book, and became a psychologist who, of course, wrote books. When I wrote one on passion, I met Peter who lived some 40 miles away from me on Cape Cod. He introduced me to ponds and turtles and that's where Swimming With Turtles begins.

The third of the four Turtle Sisters books, this one follows The Turtle Sisters of Cape Cod Pond, The Turtle Sisters Learn the Best New Trick and precedes Mrs. Painted Turtle Disappears. To order, please go to theturtlesisters,com

Watching the creatures who had populated the hidden world of ponds for thousands of years was like watching a magic show. I plunked myself down in a front row seat and waited for miracles.