Parris Afton Bonds


Parris Afton Bonds is an American historical romantic fiction novelist. She is the co-founder of Romance Writers of America.
Bonds started her professional writing career in the early 1970s with her first sale to Modern Secretary magazine, and in 1981 Time magazine called Bonds one of the many women who supplement their family income by writing romance novels. Her predominant genre is historical romance, but her works include other genres such as westerns, murder mysteries, sagas, and international thrillers. Bonds is a regular on bestseller lists and has been published in more than a dozen languages. ABC's Nightline heralded her as one of the three bestselling authors of romantic fiction in America.
She co-founded both Romance Writers of America, of which she was the first Vice President, and Southwest Writers Workshop. The Parris Award was established in her name by the Southwest Writers Workshop to honor published writers who give outstandingly of their time and talent to other writers. She has donated her time, teaching creative writing to female inmates and school children, both of whom she considers her captive audiences.
Bonds is named after Paris, Kentucky, where she was conceived, and the River Afton in Scotland. She was born in Tampa, Florida, and grew up in Oak Cliff, outside Dallas, Texas. Legendary Locals of Oak Cliff features Bonds in its chapter, "Creative Legends and Locals."
She is the author of more than fifty books and the mother of five sons, two of whom were born In Mexico City, where she lived in the early 1970s. Currently, she resides in Querétaro, Mexico. Writers who influenced Bonds early on were Dorothy Dunnett, Rafael Sabatini, Sergeanne Golan, Frank Yerby, Daphne du Maurier, Samuel Shellabarger, Jan Westcott, and Edna Ferber.

Works

A list of some of the works by Parris Afton Bonds.

Books

Blue Bayou - 1986 / / Blue Moon - 1985 / / The Calling of the Clan - 2016 / / ASIN B01N660FWIThe Captive - 2013 / / ASIN B00GQ0BN22Dancing with Crazy Woman - 2013 / / ASIN B00C2C1RNIDancing with Wild Woman - 2013 / / ASIN B007C7WOPIDeep Purple - 1984 / / Dream Keeper - 2014 / / ASIN B00KC52J4SDream Time - 2014 / / ASIN B00K8O8FKUDust Devil - 2013 / / ASIN B00C53PH76The Flash Of The Firefly - 2013 / / ASIN B00CWI33O8For All Time - 1992 / / Indian Affairs - 2013 / / ASIN B008JLF4U8Kingdom Come: Temptation - 2013 / / ASIN B00H9VCJG6Kingdom Come: Trespass - 2015 / / ASIN B00S8G0WWOLavender Blue - 1983 / / ASIN B00GLEXN58Love Tide - 1980 / / Made For Each Other - 2013 / / ASIN B007Y0694UMan For Hire: Book II - Midsummer Madness Trilogy - 2013 / / ASIN B00LVI15HWMidsummer Midnight - October 1985 / / Mood Indigo - 1988 / / No Telling - 2014 / / ASIN B00OFHDSG2Renegade Man - 2013 / / ASIN B007Y0688MRun To Me - 2013 / / ASIN B007QEA8FKSavage Enchantment - 1979 / / The Savage - 1995 / / Snow And Ice - 1987 / / ASIN B00RSIDPNGSpinster's Song - 1992 / / Stardust - 1983 / / ASIN B00T5IW006Sweet Enchantress - 2013 / / ASIN B00HIR06X4Sweet Golden Sun - 1978 / / The Wildest Heart - 2014 / / ASIN B00NKQ9VCYWanted Woman - 1987 / / Widow Woman - 2013 / / ASIN B007SXUT80Wind Song - 2013 / / ASIN B007R8UUGW

Novellas and anthologies

  • "Written in the Stars" in Valentine Sampler - Anthology|Valentine Sampler - 1993 / /
  • "Ravished!" in Silhouette Summer Sizzlers - Anthology|Silhouette Summer Sizzlers - 1989 / /
  • "At First Sight: A Novella" - 2017 / / ASIN B06XTHWC4V
  • "The Latest and the Greatest" - 2014 / / ASIN B00OMENP66