Susan Reiss trained as a concert pianist then worked as a television writer/producer for many years. Her work received a New York International Film Festival Silver Medal, the Cine Golden Eagle, three Telly Awards, and Emmy nominations. 

Since moving to St. Michaels on the Chesapeake Bay to write, the natural beauty, history, and yes, maybe some quirky local characters, have inspired the six books in her dual-timeline historical fiction and murder mystery IN TIME series that also has a dash of romance.  

In 2016, she was named Scribe of the Eastern Shore.

The first five dual-timeline books in the IN TIME series connect present-day characters with those living in the complicated and confusing period of the Civil War as it was lived on the Maryland Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.  The stories were inspired by historical research, letters, diaries, and oral histories.

Then in 2024, one of her favorite librarians introduced her to the true stories of pirates who sailed the Chesapeake Bay attacking British ships in the mid-1700s and the Revolutionary War. And the book, Treasures in Time., was written as the first in a mini-series about the birth of the United States.  Divided in Time is the second book in that mini-series. 

Books in the IN Time series have ranked in Amazon's Top 100 Bestsellers in Historical Fiction.  The series also won the Bookfest Gold Medal for Best Fiction Series.