IBPA Think Tank 2025

Susan May Warren is the CEO and Founder of Sunrise Media Group and an acclaimed novelist with nearly 2 million books sold. She’s lived all over the world (including Russia), and has penned over 100 novels, writing across genres such as contemporary and historical romances, romantic suspense, and thrillers. Susan’s works have achieved USA Today, ECPA, and CBA bestseller status, won numerous awards  and have been translated into eight languages. She’s a renowned writing coach, founder of Novel.Academy, and author of the popular writing method, The Story Equation. She lives in Minnesota and Florida, has 2 messy labradoodles, loves good wine, travelling and hanging out with her husband, 4 kids and their spouses and her 4 grandchildren.
She loves to talk about trends in publishing, innovation, marketing, and anything related to business and publishing.