Tales From The Golden State of Mind
Ms. Sullivan's Most Recent Project
Ms. Sullivan's creative writing style is poised at the event horizon of purple prose. She wrote her first novel at the age of 12, which she kept a secret, and nurtured her artistic talents through the visual arts until the flame to write ignited once again. After getting her B.A. in fine arts Ms. Sullivan discovered the field of Art Therapy and went on to earn her Master's Degree. As a Registered Art Therapist, and Mental Health Rehabilitation Specialist, Ms. Sullivan has dedicated her life to helping kids and teens in psychiatric treatment programs including girls rescued from being sexually trafficked in a CSEC program. In her last program, where she was a Therapeutic Day Program Coordinator, she provided art therapy as well as created a gardening program. She also created a Theatre Arts Program where she wrote the scripts and directed the plays presented to the program as entertainment. For a few select clients in the Outpatient Therapy Center, she offered equine therapy. It is her experience and knowledge of what these young people go through to heal and move on that brings her characters to life on the page.
Even while running the Creative Arts Therapy program as part of a psychiatric treatment program, writing was never far from Ms. Sullivan's mind. Ms. Sullivan's passage into the life as an author started with her Si-Fi/Fantasy novel,To Face the Rising Sun. This novel is the adventure of two young women, one alien to Earth, the other part alien, and their determination to see each other through their strengths and solve the riddle of the Or'Dara Prophesy to save one's world and the other's life. To Face the Rising Sun is available in local bookstores, on Amazon and as an e-book on Kindle.This novel has led to the creation of The Or'Dara Chronicles. Book two, To Touch the Stone of Dreams is nearly complete, and book three, To Soothe a Savage Beast is in the outline stage with book four still a gleam of imagination.
Now retired, Ms. Sullivan has begun her second career as an author.
Ms. Sullivan's love of mysteries, roses, parrots, and dogs, has led to her writing, The Parrot in the Closet mystery series with Book one, The Mystery of the Blue Suede Shoe.
Suspected of murdering her wealthy grandfather who has created the world's first true blue rose, Veronica Quinn is determined to find out who really killed her beloved grandfather and discovers she is getting help from the two very unlikely forces. Her grandfather's macaw and her young son who not only talks to animals but strikes up conversations with her dead grandfather.
The Mystery of the Blue Suede Shoes is available on Amazon and as an e-book. All of Ms. Sullivan's novels are multi-cultural, and gender and racial inclusive, without profanity, sex, or graphic violence.
Ms. Sullivan's most recent project is, Tales From The Golden State of Mind, a celebration of age. This anthology is of poetry and short stories about aging that are heartwarming and inspirational. Well known and award winning authors from all over the country have contributed to this project including Marshall Karp, who has been a co-author with James Patterson and is a New York Times Best Selling Author. Tales From The Golden State Of Mind is available in local bookstores and on Amazon and Kindle.
On top of writing, Ms. Sullivan dedicates her extra time to her rose garden and her animals. She enjoys horseback riding in the foothills and high mountains near Lake Tahoe. She currently has two horses, an adopted mustang, and a Tennessee Walking Horse. Her kill pen rescue has finally found her forever home with a young, experienced rider. Ms. Sullivan also has three adopted macaws. Her cat, Oliver Twist, came to her home as an abandoned orphan, asking to be fed. She also cares for his buddy, probably his brother, and sometimes visitor, Oscar Wilde.
Sandra K. Sullivan--her experience and knowledge of what real young people go through
to heal and move on is what brings her characters to life on the page.
