E.M. Bannock grew up in the Detroit suburbs. She is the second of seven children and the eldest daughter in a working-class family. E.M. was raised with deep-rooted family values.

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Her inspiration to write was her father, who was a great storyteller with a fantastic imagination.  She fell in love with writing in high school, where she excelled at short stories and poetry.

 

Born with a wanderlust, she moved to Los Angeles after graduating high school. LA was an exciting place in the early ’70s, and E.M. experienced all it had to offer. It was here she met her husband.

 

E.M. and her family have lived in California, Oregon, Alaska, Florida, and Wyoming, where she now lives with her husband, a dog, two cats, and an old horse.

 

She has worked as an office manager, computer programmer/analyst, project manager, sales clerk, substitute teacher, and bison meat shipper. Throughout it all, she never lost her love for writing.

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Although she had always dreamed of writing a book, she never attempted it until 1999. Then, while descending into Detroit on a business trip, she had the inspiration for her first novel, Totally Devoted.

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Life became complicated, and her book sat in her computer's memory for 15 years. At her husband’s urging, she “brushed” it off, added more character depth, and more spice to the romance. The result is a gripping, sexy tale of modern romance and rugged Western adventure that exposes life's struggles through raw human emotion, lust, love, devotion, and danger.

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Her second book, Zoey's Place, was published in 2019. She also published Out of Dreams, the first in her four-book series, The LaFontaines, in 2021. Book 2, Out of Nowhere, followed in 2022, and Book 3, Out of Love, in 2023.

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She believes writers should write what they know and draws inspiration for her characters and settings from her varied, unique life. She writes about the places she has lived or visited because she believes accurate geographical details are an important ingredient in a story, giving readers the full experience.

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E.M. is a member of the Romance Writers of America and The Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers.