AOL chat: Rhonda Thompson
Tuesday, January 14, 2003Ronda Thompson will be the Writer's Realm guest on Tuesday, Jan. 14,
from 9-10 PM ET in The Printed Word chatroom, keyword: books. You
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Please come and bring your friends with you!!
About the book:
Call of the Moon
Jason Donavon walked in darkness, seeking release from his curse. It
had the power to destroy everything-to take his humanity. In a world
where he no longer belonged, he felt eyes watching him. Someone or
something even more sinister than himself stalked the night. But
there was beauty in the night as well. The woman who materialized to
save him from the forces of darkness seemed from another age, another
world-but her mysterious eyes held answers to all the questions he'd
been too afraid to ask. She took him to her world, to the wilds of
the North, to the forests. Yet in a place of such primitive ancestral
customs, where nature ruled supreme, Jason knew greater dangers
awaited. He would be forced to battle the beast within, fight his
love for a woman forbidden, and discover whether salvation would come
from resisting the seductive light of the moon-or in surrendering to
it.
About Ronda:
(in her own words)
The written word fascinates me. That probably has something to do
with the fact that for many years, I couldn't understand the written
word, or make beans out of what I read. I realize now that I had
dyslexia as a child, and my son is dyslexic, also. Thank goodness
we've come a long way since my schooldays, and he was diagnosed as
being dyslexic in the second grade. With help, he's making progress
faster than I ever could.
As other children learned in school, I sat, staring at the
blackboard, watching those letters all dance around. Then my mind
would wander, and I'd be off on some grand adventure. One of my
teachers in grade school once rapped her ruler on my desk to get my
attention. She asked, "What are you going to do for a living when you
grow up, Ronda? Sit around and daydream all day?" Well, the joke is
on her, because that is exactly what I do for a living. In later
years, I did learn to read, and understand what I read, and as a
result, I found wonderful new worlds to escape into. Add my love of
reading, my fascination for the written word, and my imagination
together, and I don't think I could have become anything but an
author. My first published novel, ISN'T IT ROMANTIC?, published by
LionHearted Publishing in the spring of 98, was a finalist in the
Reader's Choice Awards for best single title contemporary of the
year, and has since been converted into screen play. I hope to see my
story on the big screen one day. Another novel of mine, In Trouble's
Arms, published by Leisure books, has also been optioned for a movie.
Fingers crossed we will see this one premier as a made for television
movie in the near future. Since I became published in 1998, I have
released a total of eight books, one novella and have contracts for
future novels. This has long been a dream of mine, and a very
fulfilling one. If I can give another half the pleasure I have
received over the years from reading, then I am satisfied with my
writing accomplishments. I've been married for years to the same
wonderful man. We have two children, three dogs, and live in Texas,
which has much to do with my love for writing western historical
romances. I also like to challenge myself by writing books in all
genres of romance. The imagination has wings, and in my opinion, no
one should clip them. I never know from one day to the next, where
those wings might take me.
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