Featured Interview With Elena Dorothy Bowman
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Elena Dorothy Bowman, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts a suburb of Boston. During their younger years, Elena and her four brothers, sat at their father’s feet as he read the classics to them each night before
sending them off to bed, with visions of the stories still in their heads and mesmerized by the works of Jules Verne.
Elena is an honors graduate of Fitchburg College and has earned a BS Degree in Engineering and Management.
She has held the offices of State President, Treasurer, and Letters Chairperson of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National League of American PenWomen and is currently President of the Merrimack Valley Branch.
Her credits include: By-line Magazine, regional newspapers, organizational newsletters and has co-written and co-produced a Musical Workshop Production. A software engineer turned author, she has completed eight full-length fiction novels, four non-fiction books,
thirty-three short stores, four novellas, and has presently completed work on a historical fiction novel.
Today, the mother of four, and grandmother of one, writes from her home in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, which she shares with her husband James, their children and their daughter’s three cats.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Elena began writing on her own during her school and college years opting for doing research papers in lieu of tests. When she didn’t like the ending to a movie she saw or a book she had read, she rewrote the endings. It was then that she really settled down into writing in earnest. She wrote the newsletters for several organizations and articles for a National Magazine in which she actually had a byline.
Encouraged by co-workers to branch out into novels, she began her first science fiction novel, Sarah’s Landing–I–Contact, which became the first in a series of four books.
Sarah’s Landing–I–Contact was the first of her novels to be published, which was released as an audio book, winning the APA award for being one of the best new audio books in 2001.
Sarah’s Landing–I–Contact is now under contract with Write Words, Inc., Cambridge Books as are all the books in the series.
Her first Romantic Suspense/Mystery/Thriller The House on the Bluff was published as an e-book with Write Words, Inc., ebooksonthe.net and as paperback edition with their affiliate Cambridge Books, Inc. Two other books in the series, Gatekeepers’ Realm and Adams Point are available in paperback. All Elena’s books are available from Write Words, Inc. ebooksonthe.net and all of her novels are now in paperback under Write Words Inc., affiliate Cambridge Books.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I have so many authors that I like, I can’t really say who is a favorite. Two that comes to mind are David Baldacci and Nelson DeMille. Actually, there really isn’t one favorite genre, although my favorites are science fiction, historical, mystery and paranormal. I guess you could say my father inspired me to write. He used to read to all of us when we were younger and took us to worlds we didn’t know existed.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book Moonlit Bay…is a mystery, paranormal novel. A short blurb follows”
What is in an abandoned building on an uninhabited Island across Moonlit Bay that is surreptitiously invaded by armed, unidentified entities who are helmeted and dressed in black survival suits with breathing apparatus’s attached?
And why did they pick this peaceful unassuming small coastal town of Moonlit Bay, whose population didn’t exceed more than 575 permanent residents, for their clandestine operations?
These are questions that Elliot, Ryan, Penny and Stacie are determined to discover if it’s the last thing they do.
Four young people — Ryan and Elliot, two long time friends who had served together in the U.S. Navy, now members of the Moonlit Bay Police Force, and two young women, Stacie and Penny, who grew up as neighbors in a small mid-western town, soon became fast friends but were not quite ready to take it any further. However, from all outward appearances it seemed as if they had.
The four main characters watched out for one another, especially the men who took it upon themselves to be the women’s protectors. Whenever the women seemed to be in trouble, which was usually the case, they called on their male friends for help. The fact that their two friends were Police Officers only added to their feeling of safety and security in a world so far away from what they once knew as home. As their friendships deepened their love for one another became more than that of siblings…they were falling in love, but couldn’t make up their minds as to with whom.
Due to Penny’s empathy it didn’t take long for all four to become involved in a series of mishaps that became very dangerous and possibly life-threatening.
Thus began a strange, dangerous, and unnerving journey for the four young people. It would take them through a series of kidnappings, imprisonments, and the assistance of an unusual ally to escape from their cells and gain their freedom.
Determined to discover who their kidnappers were, they ran into more barriers than they expected. It was only when a more seasoned Detective, who had been on the Force longer than anyone else, heard their story and in spite of its seemingly impossible probability, caught his interest and decided not only to help them but to see their quest to the end.
All five set out on an unusual journey that would take them to the edge of reason and beyond. They became involved with a life form they couldn’t believe existed and a group of intruders that were never actually defined as to who they really were — whether human or alien.
Intruders whose disappearance under a catastrophic eruption without revealing their true identity left them in a quandary as to where they came from and what would happen next.
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