Joe Bonadonna

Specializing in heroic fantasy, sword and sorcery, space opera, sword and planet, horror, and children’s books, Joe has published a number of short stories and novels, and has authored five (unsold) screenplays. At one time he was a board member of the Chicago Screenwriters’ Network, where he lectured on the history of science fiction, horror, and fantasy in films, as well as on writing screenplays. A retired rock and roll guitarist and songwriter from the Golden Age of 1964-1984, he was born and bred in Chicago, IL, where he still resides. Besides writing, Joe is an avid reader and owns an extensive collection of films on DVD and Blu-Ray.

Joe Bonadonna has short stories in Heroika: Dragon Eaters, Poets in Hell, Doctors in Hell, Pirates in Hell and Lovers in Hell. He is also the author of the heroic fantasies Mad Shadows-Book One: The Weird Tales of Dorgo the Dowser (winner of the 2017 Golden Book Readers’ Choice Award for Fantasy); Mad Shadows-Book Two: Dorgo the Dowser and the Order of the Serpent; Mad Shadows-Book Three: The Heroes of Echo Gate; the space opera Three Against The Stars; the sword and planet space adventure, The MechMen of Canis-9; and the sword & sorcery adventure, Waters of Darkness, in collaboration with David C. Smith. With co-writer Erika M Szabo, he wrote Three Ghosts in a Black Pumpkin (winner of the 2017 Golden Books Judge’s Choice Award for Children’s Fantasy), and The Power of the Sapphire Wand. He also has stories appearing in: Azieran—Artifacts and Relics; GRIOTS 2: Sisters of the Spear; Sinbad: The New Voyages-Volume 4, Here Be Ghosts, and Sha’ Daa Toys, in collaboration with author Shebat Legion. In addition to his fiction, he has written a number of articles and book reviews for Black Gate online magazine.

Visit his Amazon Author’s page at: www.amazon.com/Joe-Bonadonna/e/B009I1KYIK

His Facebook author’s page is called Bonadonna’s Bookshelf, at: https://www.facebook.com/BonadonnasBookshelf/