Works by
Susan K. Perry
(Writer)

Fiction

• Novel in Progress (Future Release)
  Susan is currently polishing a novel about a rational woman who has to learn how to let go of everything she loves.

Non-fiction

• Loving in Flow: How the Happiest Couples Get and Stay That Way (2003)
  Based upon the concept of Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s international bestseller, Loving in Flow combines the author’s own experiences with studies of dozens of unusually happy long-term and married couples to discuss how compromise and communication, and being "in flow," are the keys to building solid and long-lasting relationships. Perry uses interviews and recent research to discuss every aspect of a relationship, from the initial meeting through childbearing and beyond. With uncommon candor, she tackles often-neglected subjects such as:

  • Dealing with crazy-making habits

  • Communicating about sex

  • Solving the chore wars

  • Making sense of infidelity

  • Adjusting to the strain of parenthood

  Loving in Flow spotlights the most successful couples and offers readers a practical and positive guide to getting more out of their relationships and helping them sustain a joyous love life that truly flows.

  • Loving in Flow for Singles: How to Become Part of a Happy Couple
    A new e-book adapted from part of Loving in Flow -- available here.

• Writing in Flow: Keys to Enhanced Creativity (1999, 2001)
  Writing in Flow: Keys to Enhanced Creativity is available for purchase directly through DREAMWalker Group ... (Click here to purchase)
  Flow is the sense of inspired freedom that comes when you lose yourself completely in an activity, allowing time, duty and worry to melt away. For writer's, words pour out in a continuous, creative stream. In Writing In Flow, Dr. Susan Perry shows writers how to achieve and maintain a sense of flow in their own work, everything from defining what it is to making it happen--even when facing writer's block. Throughout, more than 75 best-selling and award-winning writers reveal their techniques for enhancing their writing creativity and productivity.
  
  Foreword by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of the New York Times best- selling book Flow.

  • Addresses every writer's core need: to be more creative and prolific

  • Features insights from dozens of big-name writers, including Jane Smiley, Sue Grafton and more.

• Playing Smart: The Family Guide to Enriching, Offbeat Learning Activities for Ages 4 to 14 (1990, 2001) -- Winner Best Nonfiction Award for 1991- Minn. Independ. Publishers Assoc.; Winner Parents' Choice Award; Finalist 1991 Benjamin Franklin Award
  Our new edition of a family favorite has hundreds of fun and educational activities that promote creative thinking, laughter, and loving relationships. From ways to make walking interesting to tips for creating a family book of world records, Susan Perry brings together simple activities that rely on little more than family commitment.
  
  For parents who are looking for ways to enhance quality time, or for those who are looking for new, creative ways to play and learn with their children, Playing Smart provides a treasure trove of activities, resources, and ideas. Included in this revised, expanded, and updated edition are new chapters on the five-senses and geography as well as many new activities. Updated resources and family-friendly Web sites help point the way to more adventures.

• Catch the Spirit: Teen Volunteers Tell How They Made a Difference (2000)
  Catch the Spirit: Teen Volunteers Tell How They Made a Difference is composed of the stories, in their own inspiring words, of 20 teens who found fulfillment while doing something great for their community. The Introduction talks about what makes these kids special, and the Appendix contains tips for making the volunteering experience a positive one, plus many resources. The stories include a boy who collected a million pennies for charity; a girl who gave kids in wheelchairs their first astonishing experience on a softball field; a girl who raised thousands of dollars to help others who, like herself, have cystic fibrosis; and a girl whose mom died of AIDS and who nows speaks to groups of young people about how to be safe.

• Sharing Family Time: Simple Ways to Make the Most of Busy Days (1998)

• Fun Time, Family Time (1996)
  Outlines seven hundred quick and easy ways to promote quality time among families, from starting daily rituals, to cooking together and writing family journals, to organizing meaningful holidays and turning chores into games.

• The Doctors Book of Home Remedies for Children (1994) by Dena K. Salmon, Denise Foley, Eileen Nechas, and Susan Perry
  Have questions about your child's health? Get the answers in this authoritative volume that provides practical, up-to-date advice on more than 100 illnesses and health problems, including:

  • Comforting a colicky baby

  • Managing Asthma

  • Soothing the symptoms of flu

  • Taking the bite out of bee stings

  • Treating television addiction

  Written with common sense and great consideration for the challenges of parenting, here is a resource that concerned moms and dads will refer to again and again.

• The Twelve-Month Pregnancy (1992, 1997) with Barry Herman
  What you need to know before you conceive to ensure a healthy beginning for you and your baby.