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In memory of our beloved Tia. (Nov.
1995-Dec. 7, 2006. Liver cancer) We will miss you always, sweetie. Thanks for
all the love, loyalty and devotion you
showered on us. |
Thanks for visiting. I'm Bonnie and I live in sunny
Florida. Well, sometimes sunny Florida. When we're not
having a conga line of hurricanes chugging along,
slamming us. I'm the author of Egyptian historicals for Dorchester,
and will be publishing paranormals for Silhouette's
Nocturne line I've been writing since childhood, when I penned
adventure stories and poems. After receiving a
journalism degree from the University of Florida, I
worked for several years as a journalist. I left
newspaper reporting behind when I took a job writing for
a large international charity. A few years ago, I
discovered I needed a diversion from the emotional
strains of traveling to poor countries and encountering
horrific suffering. So I began writing romance novels.
THE FALCON &
THE DOVE is my first book. It won the
historical category of the 2001 RWA Melody of Love
contest.
 THE
TIGER & THE TOMB, my December 2003 release,
is an historical that won second place in another RWA
contest. TIGER features Ramses, a fierce
Khamsin warrior of the wind who swore a blood oath to
protect his sheikh with his life. He hides the pain of
having to marry for honor, for his heart dearly wants to
marry for love. Little does he know the mysterious
green-eyed thief who steals from him a kiss and the map
to his ancestor's treasure-filled tomb is the bride
destined for him. THE COBRA &
THE CONCUBINE, my third historical from
Leisure, takes place half in England, half in Egypt. It
features a heroine who was enslaved to an evil sheikh as
a child and an English nobleman who purchases her as his
concubine after she rejects his marriage offer. Cobra is
followed by
THE PANTHER &
THE PYRAMID, my 2006 release, and
THE SWORD & THE
SHEATH, released March 2007.
Why romance novels?
I've been reading romance novels since
childhood. Some of the first authors I read
were Victoria Holt, Dorothy Eden, Mary
Stewart, to name a few. I've always enjoyed reading romance novels
as an escape. Two years after my mom died of
cancer, I started writing them as an escape.
During the day, I keep busy working as a
journalist for a large international
charity. My travels have taken me to Haiti,
Nicaragua and other poor countries. Writing
romance novels provides a healthy balance to
some of the horrible suffering I've
witnessed. Forget the rules!
FALCON came about in the
summer of 2001 after I listened to some very
wise advice by author Susan Elizabeth
Phillips given at a romance writer's
conference. She told everyone to chuck the
rules and write what you love. I listened. After picking up a National
Geographic article on "The Pharaohs of the
Sun," I became intrigued with the mystery
surrounding Akhenaten and his worship of the
sun god, Aten. Although his first wife,
Nefertiti, was well-known, little was known
about Kiya, a minor wife. Seems she
mysteriously disappeared and her name was
erased from a temple called the Maru Aten.
Why? No one knows. And so I created the legend... and the
book...
TIGER followed FALCON, simply
because I adored Nazim/Ramses so much and he
needed his own story. So I gave this
"warrior of love" a tale of his own, set
partly in the barren wildness of Egypt's
Arabian Desert. The gold mine in TIGER is
based on an actual gold mine worked during
the days of the pharaohs. But the "secret of
one hundred kisses" Ramses employs on Lady
Katherine is a Khamsin tradition I invented. Contrary to what some readers have told me,
the Khamsin are NOT an actual Egyptian
tribe. They are pure myth, birthed from my
heart and a desire to create a warrior tribe
who embrace ancient Egyptian mysticism and
tradition. The research...
Most of my research was conducted at the
library and on the Internet. I am very
grateful to the good librarians at the
Broward County Library. And I promise, I
will never, ever, ever be late again with
books... Ok, I promise to try! |
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