Ask the Author: Bonnie Randall
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Bonnie Randall
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James; I own it, but I've been saving it...sort of like the way you save the best part of the dessert till last so you can really savour it & feel treated.
Bonnie Randall
Places - far more than people - inspire me to write. I'll see a locale that strikes me as beautiful, disquieting, or downright scary, and an immediate plot will blaze to life in my head - complete with characters who *must* live in these amazing places. For a deeper dive into the settings that have inspired my fiction, follow this link to my blog article: 'Enchanted Areas: Where Setting Meets imagination' https://www.bonnierandallstories.com/...
Bonnie Randall
I have currently just finished a short Christmas story featuring the characters from my upcoming novel 'Within The Summit's Shadow'. This quick Xmas tale, set after the action in 'Within The Summit's Shadow' (hence it's title: 'I'll Be Home For Christmas', Within The Summit's Shadow 1.5) features my hero Andrew being challenged to go caroling by his nemesis - a delusion he refers to as The Dead Boy. Read it for free here:
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Bonnie Randall
I've recently completed and polished my newest novel, The Summit's Shadow, a romantic ghost story with a high-concept twist. I am querying it out to literary agents this week. Wish me luck!
Bonnie Randall
As a clinical addictions counselor I can say (anecdotally albeit not scientifically) that trauma is certainly the basis for all addiction. I can also attest, with reasonable confidence, that trauma is, in turn, the root of all other mental illness and disturbance as well. With that in mind I considered my disgraced RCMP officer, Andrew Gavin - his life of anxiety, paranoia and delusions - Andrew sees a shadowy figure he refers to as The Dead Boy - and I thought.....what trauma did Andrew experience? The death of both parents, certainly. Being the incumbent guardian to his younger sister? Yep. But then I discovered he'd also bore witness, as a teen, to his best buddy's suicide, and I really sat up and took notice. Then Andrew told me that he was *the reason* his friend Peter shot himself in the isolated mountain woods, and I was hooked....
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