Tina Bendoni's Bio

I really don't lead a very exciting life, so there isn't much to tell about me. I am married with one cat that thinks she needs to be the center of attention whenever I am on the computer. My husband is my biggest supporter and fan, and always has been.

I have been making up worlds as far back as I can remember. Whether it was a pretend language and planet for my baby cousin, a play for my high school, or stories to entertain myself at night when I couldn't sleep, I have always enjoyed making other worlds come to life.

I grew up reading anything and everything I could get my hands on. It didn't matter if it was beyond or below me in years, I read it. I loved thick books most of all. Whether or not I could understand them all was irrelevant, the point was it was something to read that would last a while. It would keep me entertained.

My mother used to buy books for me at yard sales. I remember Harlequins being sold at at them for pennies a copy. They were cheap, they kept me busy, my mom bought them. By the time I was in Junior High I had graduated to "smut books" as a friend called them.

In high school I eventually moved away from romance after getting tired of the same old books seemingly rewritten again and again. I grew to dislike the "capture the woman, almost rape her but not really" theme. Or the "woman does something stupid and she needs to be rescued" theme or the ever popular "she hates him, oooh, now she loves him" theme, sometimes finding all three in the same book. I needed something different, something more.

It took me a long time to get back into romance, but I have since found that the genre has changed. There are still those bodice rippers/forced seduction/dubious consent/capture fantasies, but then there are other kinds.

The ones where the woman knows what she wants and goes for it. Where a woman doesn't depend on a man to rescue her or to be the answer all her prayers. The ones where there is no doubt in your mind she wants what is going to happen, and she is going for it with all her gusto.

Those are the kind I write.


Who is Tina Bendoni?
	I really don't lead a very exciting life, so there isn't much to tell about me. I am married with one cat that thinks she needs to be the center of attention whenever I am on the computer. My husband is my biggest supporter and fan, and always has been. I have been making up worlds as far back as I can remember. Whether it was a pretend language and planet for my baby cousin, a play for my high school, or stories to entertain myself at night when I couldn't sleep, I have always enjoyed making other worlds come to life. I grew up reading anything and everything I could get my hands on. It didn't matter if it was beyond or below me in years, I read it. I loved thick books most of all. Whether or not I could understand them all was irrelevant, the point was it was something to read that would last a while. It would keep me entertained. My mother used to buy books for me at yard sales. I remember Harlequins being sold at at them for pennies a copy. They were cheap, they kept me busy, my mom bought them. By the time I was in Junior High I had graduated to "smut books" as a friend called them. In high school I eventually moved away from romance after getting tired of the same old books seemingly rewritten again and again. I grew to dislike the "capture the woman, almost rape her but not really" theme. Or the "woman does something stupid and she needs to be rescued" theme or the ever popular "she hates him, oooh, now she loves him" theme, sometimes finding all three in the same book. I needed something different, something more. It took me a long time to get back into romance, but I have since found that the genre has changed. There are still those bodice rippers/forced seduction/dubious consent/capture fantasies, but then there are other kinds. The ones where the woman knows what she wants and goes for it. Where a woman doesn't depend on a man to rescue her or to be the answer all her prayers. The ones where there is no doubt in your mind she wants what is going to happen, and she is going for it with all her gusto. Those are the kind I write.
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Who is Tina Bendoni?