Rhonda A. Colia

Rhonda A. Colia grew up the youngest of four children raised by a single mother who made her living as a crop duster. Born in 1918, her mother Mary was a pioneer for women in aviation, flying and working during an era when female pilots were rare and divorced mothers were openly scorned. She broke through barrier after barrier and raised four children while doing it. Rhonda watched all of it. And when her mother passed, she knew the story had to be told.

The Crop Duster's Daughter, published in 2015, is that memoir. Literary Titan called it "a heartwarming and enjoyable read," a tribute to a woman ahead of her time and the daughter who loved her.

Her second book, The Lottery Murders: Dead Giveaways, grew from a personal injustice. After her mother's death, Rhonda discovered that the retirement pension her mother had spent years building, a straight life annuity, legally reverted entirely to the insurance company upon her passing. Her family received nothing. That discovery became a novel, a fictional story built on facts about a system designed to win at everyone else's expense.

Before writing books, Rhonda spent her career in advertising and marketing, writing copy for television, radio, print, and billboards, producing voiceovers, and running her own agency, Help Me Rhonda Advertising and Marketing. She knows how to tell a story that makes people pay attention.

She is currently writing a trilogy exploring the psychological duality of a teenage golden boy turned serial killer and the quiet, seamless way the most dangerous people among us go unnoticed.