Rebecca K Busch was born in a small sailing town in northeast Michigan. When she was eleven, her mother sought out a more forgiving climate, and moved to Louisville, Colorado.
Even from a young age, she has always been a storyteller. When she was eight years old, she told her parents that she wanted to be a writer. That Christmas she received her first typewriter. This was a ‘no thrills’ typewriter, it was a manual, hard punch, hammer letter, typewriter, and if you made a mistake you had to change out the ribbon. Busch quickly became disenchanted with the process until she turned thirteen and wrote a short story that would change everything.
In her mid-twenties she came down with a little thing called cancer. While she was undergoing treatment in Houston, TX, her mother began rummaging through her childhood things and found that short story that she had written all those years ago. Her mother shipped it off to her and Busch reread it for the first time in fifteen years. Now, the details are fuzzy from here, whether Busch entered a medication induced hallucination, or perhaps fairies visited her in the middle of the night, no one can say for sure, but she woke the next morning with absolute clarity that she needed to turn that story into a book.
That book became a series, that series led to new writing opportunities, and so on. She holds down a regular job as well, but dreams of the day when she can do writing full time.
Both of her books in her Dragon Wing fantasy series have won Maincrest Media Awards. Fantasy books are her primary genre, but she plans to write horror and dramatic fiction as well.
She moved to Boulder, CO in 2002, earned her BA in English Literature from the University of Colorado, and she currently resides in Denver, CO. When she is not writing exciting and epic stories, or being a slave to industry, she is reading, hiking, enjoying a funny movie, or dining with friends.
She is no stranger to disaster: cancer, home invasion by a stalker, run over by a car, made homeless by a neighbor’s apartment fire, to name a few. This has led to a couple things: a harvest of life experience that adds depth and perspective to her writing, the hope that since she has gotten these horrible things over at a young age, the winter of her life should be a breeze, and the realization that she might not be able to be killed, and therefore should be fighting crime.
Please visit her website www.rebeccakbusch.com or blog www.whoistherealbb.com to learn more. You can also follow her on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/becky.busch.33/ or on Instagram @bbusch99