Sonni Bone comes by her writing quite naturally having served her time
- a fourteen year sentence - as a newspaper feature writer, family page
editor and weekly columnist for the local Penticton Herald
newspaper. In order to balance the daily grind of being a
journalist, Sonni has published her own poetry, children's stories and is
currently wrapping up work on a detective novel where action is set in the
environs of Vancouver.
An avid gardener, especially when it comes to roses, or herbs, or for that
matter, anything that looks pretty and smells good. Sonni Bone can
back up the information in The World of Roses with years of hands-on
experience, underscored by the fact that she formulates a line of her own
exclusive perfumes.
Betty Clark is the quietly efficient organizational strength of this
co-authoring duo. Betty's middle name could well be
"harmony" when one considers the day-to-day demands of her
life. Business manager for a well known Canadian cowboy water
colourist who happens to also be her husband Phil; co-ordinator of
activities for the British Columbia Festival of the Arts; founder of the
Penticton International Auction of Fine Arts; and president of the
Okanagan Mainland Regional Arts Councils.
Somehow amongst all of this busy-ness Betty has managed to raise two sons,
maintain a love for rose gardening and, of course, co-author The World of
Roses. About the only things Betty has had to abandon recently is
her singing in musicals and on-stage Little Theatre work.
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