BRoP: 2013 Giveaway Hop Day 4–Bonnie Milani

BRoP Year in Review 2013As 2013 comes to a close, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on some of the joys and triumphs of the year. To that end, we bring you the 2013 Blog Ring of Power Year in Review Giveaway Hop!

We’ve teamed up with this past years’ BRoP interviewees to bring you 22 days of “year in review” guest posts and 20 fabulous giveaway prizes! Each day we’ll share a new guest post on the year in review from a previous BRoP interviewee and you’ll have another opportunity to enter the giveaway—so get hopping!

And be sure to enter the giveaway at the end of this post!

DAY 5: Bonnie Milani

Home world cover Final-RGB-01 web use copy-1 BonnieMilani-1Now…what have I been up to since my BRoP interview? Well, being a benefits broker in my day-life, ObamaCare pretty much answers that one. There’s a tremendous amount of research and explanation involved in switching every individual insurance policy written in the past three years over to an ObamaCare-compliant plan. So that pretty much accounts for my days. And evenings. And more than a few nights… On the bright side, though, I’ve been able to use my writing skills to help out others by providing a summary write-up of the law’s key terms and applications for various writers’ groups and others. I’ve gotten truly heart-warming feedback from it so I know I’ve at least helped ease some of the confusion for my fellow writers.

74e45afb3c5e8531d8d45c32ad073bca20c3f470Book-wise: Home World‘ is plugging along. In addition to distribution in the US, Canada, and the U.K., my publisher has orders from Australia, New Zealand and even India. Closer to home, I’ve been able to place signed copies at Mystery & Imagination Bookshop (aka Bookfellows on Amazon). That’s one of the last magical SFF/mystery niche bookstores where you stop in for a browse and leave with a family of kindred spirits. It’s a place where you can bump into The Names: (think Niven & Pournelle, Harlan Ellison, Tim Powers, James Blaylock, George Clayton Johnson, Dennis Etchison, Peter Atkins, and Guillermo del Toro)  so I’m horrendously excited to have ‘Home World‘ on their shelves.

Writing-wise:  I’ve just posted ‘Trades‘ on Smashwords. It’s a short (well…short for me) sci fi noir story full of hard-boiled men and dangerous women hiding dark secrets – with a solid dose of wry humor and just a bit of romance thrown in.

ABOUT BONNIE MILANI — Bonnie has taken what might be called the sandwich approach to writing. She started writing early, winning state-wide writing contests in grammar school, publishing an environmental fairy tale under the aegis of the NJ Board of Education in college. After earning her M.A. in Communication at Stanford, Bonnie freelanced feature articles for East Coast newspapers and regional magazines, from Mankind and Peninsula to Science Digest as well as how to articles for the late & much lamented fanzine Speculations. She stopped writing completely after marriage while building a pair of businesses with her husband. It was only with the successive deaths of each member of her family that she reclaimed her love of story-telling. Home World is the result.

Today, Bonnie lives with her husband of thirty-six years in Los Angeles. She is still a full-time benefits broker, specializing in employee benefits for entrepreneurs and micro-businesses. You can find Bonnie on Facebook.

And be sure to check out her September 2013 interview with the Blog Ring of Power:

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

And now the giveaway!

BRoP Year in Review 2013 prizes

 

Winners will be chosen from among eligible rafflecopter entries (chosen by rafflecopter) and receive a prize of our choice (from the list below). We’ll do our best to give the print books to those who don’t have an e-reader, but we can’t make any guarantees, so please be aware when entering that you are most likely going to win an e-book. Entering is easy, just use the rafflecopter below!

Enter here: a Rafflecopter giveaway

Prizes:

ebook copies of Render (A story of Aligare) by Heidi Vlach (3 copies)

ebook copy of Home World by Bonnie Milani and ebook copy of Trades by Bonnie Milani

ebook copy of Nefertiti’s Heart by A. W. Exley

$25 Amazon Gift Card from T. J. Loveless

paperback copy of Going Thru Hell by T. J. Loveless

ebook copy of Medusa’s Desire by E. B. Black

signed hardcover first edition of In Retrospect by Ellen Larson

paperback copy of Bad Apple by Kristi Petersen Schoonover (2)

paperback copy of Skeletons in the Swimming Hole by Kristi Petersen Schoonover (2)

ebook copy of Grave Intentions by Lori Sjoberg

copy of Henrietta the Dragon Slayer by Beth Barany (print for U.S. or ebook for Int. winner)

$10 Amazon gift card from Terri Bruce

ebook copy of Twinned Universes by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

ebook copy of Entwined Courage by Tracy Lane

ebook copy of Kindar’s Cure by Michelle Hauck

signed paperback of Ice Forged by Gail Martin

ebook copies of “Taste” “Reaping Me Softly” & “Unreap My Heart” by Kate Evangelista

ebook copy of “Romancing the Bookworm” by Kate Evangelista

Follow the Blog Hop!

Michelle Hauck – December 2nd @ Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

Heidi Vlach – December 3rd @ http://www.vickilempweavil.com

Anne E. Johnson – December 4th @ Terri Bruce

Bonnie Milani – December 5th @ T.W. Fendley

A. W. Exley – December 6th @ Emily LaBonte

Gail Martin – December 9th @ Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

Tracy Lane – December 10th @ http://www.vickilempweavil.com

T. J. Loveless – December 11th @ Terri Bruce

E. B. Black – December 12th @ T.W. Fendley

Ellen Larson – December 13th @ Emily LaBonte

Kristi Petersen Schoonover – December 16th @ Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

Lori Sjoberg – December 17th @ http://www.vickilempweavil.com

Beth Barany – December 18th @ Terri Bruce

Lauren Jankowski – December 19th @ T. W. Fendley

Jennifer Allis Provost – December 20th @ Emily LaBonte

Kate Evangelista – December 23rd @ Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

Juli D. Revezzo – December 24th @ http://www.vickilempweavil.com

Terri Bruce – December 25th @  Terri Bruce

T. W. Fendley – December 26th @ T.W. Fendley

Emily LaBonte – December 27th @ Emily LaBonte

Sandra Ulbrich Almazan – December 30th @ Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

Vicki Lemp Weavil – December 31st @ http://www.vickilempweavil.com

 

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  1. You’ve definitely been busy, Bonnie!!! Having your book at Mystery and Imagination definitely sounds like a feather in your cap! Congrats on all your successes and here’s hoping you have a great 2014!

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