An avid reader since earliest childhood, native Floridian
Sue-Ellen Welfonder spent nearly twenty years working for the airlines
before she decided to try her hand at writing historical romance novels.
With her great love of medieval history, her passion for the British
Isles, and her own Scottish ancestry, it isn't surprising that she
chose medieval Scotland as the perfect backdrop for her romance novels.
Through her years as a flight attendant, Sue-Ellen has
seen the world, but no place ever captured her heart as soundly as
the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland. While she makes annual
research trips to Great Britain, she will tell you a good-sized portion
of her heart always remains behind. Between visits, she often finds
herself plagued by what she calls being 'homesick for the Highlands."
The best cure for this ailment, one she suspects is shared by many,
is an airline ticket across the Big Pond. But since such a remedy
is not always practical, she has found the best way for her to return
to the special place she loves best, is to sit at her computer, place
her hands on the keyboard, and slip into what her dear friend, Regency
author Pat Cody, calls the writer's trance ... a wonderful state of
being that allows a writer's everyday surrounds to fade away and enables
the writer to slip into the world of their story.
Sue-Ellen's travels also led her to the most important
day in her life, the day she met her German-born husband, Manfred,
during a trip to the Bavarian capital, Munich. The couple lived there
for fifteen years, and while Sue-Ellen enjoyed 'the Munich years,'
she claims the best thing about living there was being just a two
hour flight away from London. She took full advantage of this and
spent many long weekends and holidays exploring the places that would
someday become the inspiration and settings of her novels.
Sue-Ellen lives with her husband and her muse (their
Jack Russell Terrier, Em) in Florida. She is a member of Romance Writers
of America and her own clan society, the MacFie
Clan Society of North America. When not writing or walking her
dog, she can usually be found scouring the history section of used
bookstores, trying to think of a clever new way to ask her husband
to please build her some new bookshelves, or curled in a corner of
the sofa late at night, happily
lost in the pages of a research book on medieval Scotland.
Readers may write
to her c/o this website.