| Bekki is the proud mother of four wonderful sons, and a wife of a very patient man. If there were a ‘tolerant’ award, her guys would win it hands down. While they now reside in the Midwest, she dreams of returning to Arizona. She loves the Chicago Cubs, Minnesota Vikings, movies, music, and reading. Her favorite description of herself is 'predictably unpredictable', but she's very much a frustrated perfectionist. As a youngster, when the library couldn’t acquire new books fast enough to feed Bekki’s hunger for fresh and new reads, she reread them all. She soon became bored. She hungered for depth and complete characters with relationships where women weren’t afraid to stand up for themselves, both in and out of the bedroom. So, she began writing her own stories. Bekki's Writing Timeline Bekki began her writing career as a closet writer in 1976. Primarily writing teen stories and poetry. Daring to be different, she wrote what was in her heart and soul and that included passion, sex and other taboo topics not allowed in her household. 1980 brought a new twist in Bekki's writing. She penciled her first adult romance. While it was fun to write, it's gone. One day she dug it out to type it into the computer. She ripped it from the notebook and never saw it again. It's a mystery since she doesn't throw anything away. While she does recall the gist of the story, the genre and the characters, she's not sure she'll try to recreate it. Wow - a huge gap here. What happened? "Life happened", and that's all she'll say. In 1992, she woke one morning with the urge to write a story of a young woman who'd been raped. Writing in her spare time, she penciled the first draft and put it aside as an idea for another had to be penciled. From there, her family grew and they changed locations. Mid 1994, while her husband was away on a temporary assignment, she took her writing from the closet. For the next two years, she rewrote Nightmare's Love, Patience, wrote Realignment of Unity and began The Fraudulent Colonel. Circumstances led them to move again in 1996, where necessity required her to find work outside the home. Her writing was once again put aside, though she made attempts to work on it. Finally, in 2005, she said enough, cut back the hours of her paying job and began to edit, rewrite and polish these stories so she can finish the drafts of the remaining in the Three Friends Trilogy and English Love. However, in 2006, her writing took a turn. She realized The Fraudulent Colonel contained the perfect setup for a second story. Excited, she continued the saga of the lives of the members of the 53rd radar unit, titled - Crossed Circuits and out of it came Camouflaged and Explosive to complete a trilogy of three enlisted women. And, so as not to leave anyone out, she plans to write a story titled Green and Greed Iced staring the ex-husband from Realignment of Unity. Everyone deserves to find their soul mate, especially someone you love to hate. 2007 brought on many changes for Bekki. She tried her hand at writing novellas. In the process, she found anything under 30,000 wasn't possible for her to do well. She prefers her characters to have well-rounded lives. So, she spent ten months working on A Psychic Hitch and finally received a contract twelve months after she first wrote it. Thrilled, she went through Last Glass of Wine, a story she'd written in the summer of the same year and sent it off. Both are currently available through Siren Publishing. Then much to her surprise, when she went through files to see what else she had nearly ready to go out, she realized she had a four story series going, starting with A Psychic Hitch and Last Glass of Wine. They'd all been started as stand- alone pieces, but the connection between them were uncanny. She's hoping to have the two remaining stories in the series, now titled Servin' It Up, soon. Currently, Bekki has several other projects in the works. Two contemporary paranormals, she hadn't intentionally wrote, but her characters said, "Hey, what if we do this and go this way?" She said, "It's your life, show it to me." So, she's proofreading and tweaking Jewel of the Sun's BLOOD DESTINY, a story of a spiritual triad bringing together two people that were done with love. Second is, Ghostly Passions of the Forest, a tale of two former lovers at odds over her past indiscretion with a girlfriend and a civil war ghost who believes she's the woman who had died waiting for his return. She'll keep everyone informed of any contracts that come along. My personal viewpoint: The depths Bekki's stories take you will amaze you. She heavily researches every aspect and will research again as she edits just to make sure she's portraying accurate pieces. Her characters will jump off the pages and become so real that you'll find yourself thinking about them as you would your best friend. You'll become enthralled, emotionally involved, aroused, and hopefully by the end, sigh with satisfaction that the story ended as it should have. On a more personal note, she's holed up in the mid-west with a man she's been married to longer than she was ever single. As her nest empties, and her four sons move on to find their own path, she's finding her house is still predominately male; just of the four-legged kind. Aside from writing, Bekki loves to read romance, listen to music of most genres, and watch movies. She can drive a person mad with watching the same movies over and over, or listen to the same song hours on end. Remember when they used to show It's A Wonderful Life like a million times between Halloween and New Years? Well, she never missed it. Then they brought it out on video - what were they thinking? The woman is tireless when it comes her favorite movies and this one is her all time favorite - next to Field of Dreams. We just learned to roll our eyes, and leave her to them. Then there is her outdoor nature, where she likes to fiddle with gardening - she loves her roses; toss a line in the water, camp and watch sports. And of course, spend time with me - her alter ego who shall remain nameless. |
