Local authors publish first novels

By Mark Ribble

KINGSVILLE — For most aspiring authors, getting your book published is a wonderful achievement.

For Pam and Jim Bondy, it’s a double achievement because they now each have a book published on Amazon.

Pam’s novel, ‘Mother Knows: The Next Pandemic’, is a timely piece about surviving a pandemic.

Jim’s novel is called ‘The Accidental Brotherhood’, about a family camping trip where they stumble into another dimension.

The two works of fiction couldn’t be more different from each other, and that’s okay with the married parents of two grown children.

“We each have our own office where we write,” said Jim. “We don’t look over each other’s shoulder.”

The two have been married since 1974, and Jim recently retired from a health and safety management career in the automotive industry.

Kingsville authors, Jim and Pam Bondy, with their recently published books.

Submitted photo

For Pam, she was in the process of writing another book, when ‘Mother Knows’ popped into her head. So she switched over and concentrated on this story.

“The idea for this book wouldn’t allow itself to be pushed aside, it just had to come out,” she said.

Her story follows Samantha, who is afflicted with a plague-like illness, and decides to go public to warn others of it. This starts a domino effect that is felt world-wide.

Jim’s love for backpacking and hiking inspired his book, and he loosely based the characters on his family, as the story follows a family of four after they discover another dimension and decide to explore it.

The stories are the first published novels by each of the authors and they have plans for more to come.

The Accidental Brotherhood and Mother Knows: The Next Pandemic, are both now available on Amazon in paperback and e-book form.