How We the People
Came to Be
Bonnie Lee Hyde was watching the
news one night and saw a story about a man who entered
the Senate building and shot a guard before he was
apprehended. That got her thinking, what if …
… What if he wasn’t
insane?
… What if he was part of
an organized rebellion?
… What if the rebellion
was formed to counteract an unjust government?
“My mind started racing,” Bonnie
recalls. “Before I went to bed that night I plotted out
my characters, their place in the book and how the book
would go together.
"It’s been said that Novelists have
some kind of forethought about things that can happen in
the future. “Personally, I’m not really sure. I get
ideas from everywhere I go.
"Maybe we do have that insight. I
kept in touch with politics and
I see things going
cockeyed. I’ve always been a bit of a closet politician
anyway.”
Bonnie Lee
Hyde started writing her book in 1986
Writing on legal pads with pencil,
which is the classic writing style of authors of the
past, she would
sit in her neighborhood restaurant for hours. The
waitresses keep filling her coffee cup as the ideas
flowed. Blocking out all the distractions around her,
she just wrote. It was not uncommon for Bonnie
to go in for breakfast and still be there at lunchtime.
Bonnie’s working style was
productive. “I had close to 1,000 pages before I entered
it into a computer. I liked writing on legal pads, in
longhand because I could take my work everywhere I
was going. I was even able to jot down ideas while
waiting for appointments.
“I had no idea how many long hand
pages it would take to write a book. After developing
500 pages from long hand notes I discovered I better
make this story a trilogy or else I’d have a 1,000 page
book.
So I changed the end to make it a
cliffhanger and I kept writing.”
After finishing the second book
Bonnie Lee Hyde went back and rewrote the first one. She
had to change many of the ideas she originally thought
of.
When she sought out a publisher, Bonnie quickly learned that the major
national publishers will only work with new writers if
they are referred by another author in their stable or
by a literary agent.
After
writing a ton of letters to agents and receiving enough
rejection letters to paper a room she grew tired of
it.
“Political thrillers are not a
genre that agents are generally interested in. So I
wandered into a publishing workshop and learned about
self publishing,” Bonnie recalls.
“A year later, at another
conference, I shared a table with a small publisher who
asked me if I’d thought about self publishing. He told
me about the services his company provided and gave me
his card.
“About six months later, I decided
to go with his company, Mystic Publishing, and he
published my first book.”
In June 2007, almost 20-years
after she wrote the first page in longhand, Bonnie Lee
Hyde was holding the first copy of her book, We The
People.
Readers say We The People
is a quick read, engaging and good. They can’t put it
down. The main question that always comes up is,
“when is the sequel coming out?”
In March 2009, the sequel to We
the People was published. Now, We Hold These
Truths is available to purchase through Amazon or
from the Author.
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