
About Bonnie
Bonnie is best known as the author of an ongoing bestselling series of Sherlock Holmes Adventures for HarperCollins.
But her long and accomplished artistic career spans three decades. After receiving her BA in Music and an MA in film from Stanford University, she took a development job at Universal Studios, and quickly was promoted to one of the main story editors for feature films. There she did acquisitions and script development for Universal Pictures, and her evenings were spent covering comedy and theatre for the studio.
She left to write the movie TRON, then sold numerous other screenplays to various studios and indies. Her own production company Creative License later won three Emmys and eleven Ciné Golden Eagles for creative documentary and scripted work.
Bonnie taught screenwriting for ten years at UCLA extension, numbering among her students several now famous producers and writers.
As a performer, she studied Shakespeare at Oxford and Shakespeare & Company and acted in numerous Los Angeles productions as well as in a touring company bringing Shakespeare to schools. She also writes and directs theatrical events and videos.
Bonnie has narrated audiobooks professionally for SkyBoat Media, and narrates the prologues in her Sherlock Holmes books.
After thirty years in the entertainment business in Los Angeles, she now lives in London with her husband, computer scientist Alan Kay, where she writes, acts, paints, sings in a choir and volunteers for the Crime Writers’ Association and the Sherlock Holmes Society of London.