Bonnie MacBird, BSI (Art in the Blood) and ASH (The Professional Enthusiast), was born in San Francisco, educated at Stanford, and now lives in London and Los Angeles.
A fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle since age ten, she’s active in the Sherlockian community in both the UK and the US, and lectures regularly on Sherlock Holmes, writing, and creativity. A longtime veteran of Hollywood, MacBird has been a screenwriter (original script for TRON), an Emmy-winning producer, a playwright, studio exec (Universal) and actor.
MacBird attributes her enjoyment in capturing ‘voice’ to both her acting and screenwriting experience and her music training as well. She teaches a popular screenwriting class at UCLA Extension, which approaches writing for film using techniques of other art forms.
In her Sherlock Holmes novels, she aims to accurately portray the brilliant detective and his friend as closely as possible to Doyle, yet expanding the original shortform fiction to full-length novels. Art in the Blood features a child who has disappeared and a bloody art theft, and touches on the theme of the perils and blessings of the artistic temperament. Unquiet Spirits features a murdered girl, a threatened scientist and a haunted whisky estate, while considering the dangers of not dealing with the ghosts of one’s past. The Devil’s Due brings Holmes to the edge of evil in order to combat a devilish multiple murderer.
Visit her at www.macbird.com