EA Bundy Author BIO
My Confession: "I have a Really Active Imagination, and always have."
My laptop gives me the freedom to describe the stories and worlds I envision. Although my novels probably say more about me than I can tell you here, some people may be curious and want to read this part. I must warn you that
it is impossible to separate my life from my writing.
it is impossible to separate my life from my writing.
YOUNG PEOPLE ABROAD TO THE BRITISH ISLES (YPA for short)

YPA was my first book in the series of that name. It details the adventures of American youths traveling in foreign countries, mostly to Europe. The YPA tour groups combine students from around the United States. In the second volume of this series, tentatively titled Young People Abroad: The Bridger Memorandum, I brought together Haley from TPC with characters from some of my other stories such as Country Cousin in the Wild Woods.
⬅ That is me in the very right of the photo, with a necktie no less!
In actuality, I traveled under very similar circumstances to the characters in these stories when I accompanied middle school students during several summers on educational tours. (As in the photo) Of course, we did not actually meet royalty or have encounters with––but I digress. Before too long, I'll have an excerpt available, but until then, look at some of the other book samples.
A FIVE-PAGE STORY FOR OUR RETIRING LIBRARIAN BECAME–

I wrote a five-page story for our retiring librarian about an eccentric gentleman named Grandfather Longnapper. Matt and Mimi are his grandchildren, and their names were courtesy of a young friend of mine. The concept of the novel was a hidden room of special books in the school library. It contained volumes with magical power to transport their readers to any place imaginable, past, present or future. That initial short story soon became the middle grade novel, Matt and Mimi in the Middle Ages. Grandpa Longnapper transformed to become Professor Longstrider, an archaeologist at somewhere like the University of Oregon. I decided to use some Middle English dialog occasionally, but could not locate a suitable dictionary and ended up creating my own from the works of Chaucer. I’m still working on that novel. In the meantime, Cornelia Funk published Inkheart, which had a similar concept about stories coming alive, and even before that there was the classic, The Never Ending Story.
I knew this would be a series and even before finishing the middle ages novel, I began the sequel, Matt & Mimi Among the Incas. During one summer, I traveled to Peru to do research for that book, which is also still in progress. Currently, there are 5 of these Matt & Mimi stories I'm working on. So—a five-page story started an entire series of books : )
WRITING METHOD
I have been strongly influenced by the book On Writing. Before reading that book, I struggled to fit into a "writer's box" that did not work for me. I seldom know what will happen in my novels ahead of time. Therefore, outlining each story isn't feasible. On Writing helped me to give myself permission to be who I am as a writer; I was so grateful when I found it. And yet, at the same time, I know my style of writing is not for most people. There is value in outlining because it can keep one focused so the story doesn't ramble and become incoherent. MY CURRENT METHOD is this—in any given week I rough draft portions for several different works in progress, and do editing on still others. I am totally random in that way, but it seems to work for me. Members of my critique group have asked how I keep everything straight. I really don’t know. It is just how I function.
WHY HAVE I WRITTEN SO MANY BOOKS WITHOUT
TRYING TO GET MOST OF THEM PUBLISHED?
The answer is simple, but the result is complex. I had completed The Pigeon Catcher and sent queries to publishers and agents while I was in the process of rough drafting two sequels and a prequel, plus working on Country Cousin in the Wild Woods. Then I read an interview of an author who had signed a multi-book deal. He expressed concern because he had to publish each book in the series as he completed them (a logical situation). His fear was that he would get to, let’s say, book five and realize there was something really exciting he could have done in that book, but in order to make it work he would need to change something major in book one of his series—now in print and unalterable. I had never thought about that problem before. The more I pondered, the more it bothered me.
MY ANSWER TO THIS DILEMMA
was to rough draft as many books in the series as possible before seeking publication of my first book, now long-since completed. During the process of fleshing out The Pigeon Catcher series, I started writing Young People Abroad to the British Isles. Wouldn’t it be interesting to pull Haley out of her setting in The Dalles, and throw her together with other kids from Oregon and around the United States on a trip to France? Yes, so that's what I've done, which became The Bridger Memorandum.
YES, BUT--
That meant another whole series to be rough drafted, and before I knew it, I wanted to add two youths from Country Cousin in the Wild Woods to my travel books, so there were more volumes to draft. You already know I’m planning to bring Sean from The Not-Witch into the travel series to meet Haley—so by now you probably get the idea. My books tend to become series and those tend to interconnect as well. The good news is that I am far enough along with those various series and the initial books in each one are edited to my satisfaction, so that the publishing phase has begun. Now the problem is getting them into print in a timely manner. The first eight are now in paperback:
The Pigeon Catcher, Henrietta H. House (February, 2012) and Captain Dreade (October 2012). Then came Spider Wars and Phillip Marrow, Jr. The Private Eye (in the start of the new year, 2013). And also in 2013 (March, I think) Country Cousin in the Wild Woods became a paperback novel. In 2014, Wild Horse Girl appeared, which is a sequel to Country Cousin. That was also followed in 2014 by Dark-Dreams Girl, a prequel to The Pigeon Catcher. If you would like to order any copies, just click STORE up in the navigation bar and then follow the link(s). The first two are also available on the KINDLE.
Happy reading!
This website is where we will keep track of the ongoing publication process.
Cheers!
EAB
The Pigeon Catcher, Henrietta H. House (February, 2012) and Captain Dreade (October 2012). Then came Spider Wars and Phillip Marrow, Jr. The Private Eye (in the start of the new year, 2013). And also in 2013 (March, I think) Country Cousin in the Wild Woods became a paperback novel. In 2014, Wild Horse Girl appeared, which is a sequel to Country Cousin. That was also followed in 2014 by Dark-Dreams Girl, a prequel to The Pigeon Catcher. If you would like to order any copies, just click STORE up in the navigation bar and then follow the link(s). The first two are also available on the KINDLE.
Happy reading!
This website is where we will keep track of the ongoing publication process.
Cheers!
EAB