About

Susie is a full-time freelance writer/author. After the success of her first book, “The Veterinarian’s Wife, a Memoir” (2022) Susie has published a new book, "Something I Said" (2023), a collection of weekly columns she has written over the past several years for her local newspaper, The Newnan-Times Herald. Her columns range from cooking to humor to important conversations and opinions about people and the world around us. They have been so popular with readers she put them in book form for a larger audience to appreciate. Both books are available on Amazon and everywhere books are sold.
She has also been published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Herstryblg.com. She is a member of The Author’s Guild, Atlanta Writing Club, Georgia Writers Association, and 3-Hearts Writing Group.

Find her on:
website: www.susieberta.com
facebook.com/SusieBertaWriter
instagram.com/susiebertawriter

Her children are grown, her husband is a retired veterinarian, and she is retired from a long career as a professional vocalist/performer, having sung for many years with Maestro Robert Shaw and the Grammy-winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Chamber Chorus, touring Europe with the chorus. She performed in many venues, including Atlanta's Fabulous Fox Theatre in "The Music Man," and the Rialto Theater where she wrote and starred in her one-woman show, "All Grown Up." Later, as an empty nester she earned a BFA degree in Art.
She will never retire from writing.

Featured Work

The Veterinarian's Wife

2021

Why was there a calf in our bathtub, and a pig in my car? Who was the leggy blonde we rescued from a pseudo psychiatrist who abused, then abandoned him after which he became the 4-legged love of my life? What happens when a wife and mother spins all the domestic plates: marriage, children, career, depression, therapy, a return to school late in life, aging, grandchildren, and retirement while her husband focuses on a career requiring life and death decisions every day?

As the wife of a veterinarian, I have so much to tell from my perspective. I’ve written a memoir full of personal essays, snapshots in time. My stories are an inside peek at the veterinarian’s world and that of his wife. And who doesn’t love stories with animals? Along with the animals are reflections of our personal lives. They engender laughter, tears, joy, despair, insight, anger, and wonderment. We have experienced fully human, impactful lives, full of triumphs and losses, professional and personal, his, mine, *and* ours.

How did we manage together? We couldn’t be more different: he is a rugged outdoorsman and workaholic; I am a city girl with refined tastes and a singing career. He cares nothing about clothes. I have a walk-in closet full. He is quiet. I performed for a living. I toured Europe with the Atlanta Symphony, while he took our boys mud-boggin’ at the county raceway. He has no sense of aesthetics. I have a degree in art. If it weren’t for me, he says, we’d be living in a block hut with dirt floors. I say over my dead body. How did we make it through fifty years together? How did we support each other? What happened when we lost our way for a while? How did we save our marriage? Why are we happy? What did each of us sacrifice and compromise in favor of our careers, marriage, and children?

And really, why *was* there a calf in our bathtub, and a pig in my car?

Other Works

  • Something I Said

    2023