Peggy Bechko
Fiction has been her passion from about the age of
fourteen. Her only quandary was that she could never write
anything short. So, in the course of things, she just kind
of skipped over short stories and jumped right to novel
length and submitted what she felt was her first marketable
works when she was nineteen, to a literary agency in New
York. They welcomed her into their ranks of writers,
addressing her as Mr. Bechko, which at that time went
uncorrected as she was then submitting westerns and was
told, repeatedly, 'women can't write westerns'.
The book, THE NIGHT OF THE FLAMING GUNS, written it in the
first person as a middle-aged man, was published when she
was twenty-two. Doubleday went on to buy a total of five
westerns from her. Romances were picking up avid fans about that time, and she
tried that genre as well, managing to keep her western
influence strong while writing a more modern 'romance' set
in Mexico, DARK SIDE OF LOVE.
In her early days, since writing unfortunately did not
completely cover the bills, she held an assortment of 'day'
jobs. Such things as Gift Wrap & Customer Service in a
department store; an Artist's Model; Delivery Person;
Clerical and Office person; Legal Secretary & Office
Manager; Administrative Assistant and Assistant Bookstore
Manager.
Bechko is also talented with her hands as well as her mind.
She has had paper mache' sculptures for sale in a well
known local gallery, and hand made jewelry on sale at
several galleries.
Peggy A. Bechko has 15 completed, published books to her
credit, some under the name of P.A. Bechko, others under
Peggy Bechko. She has written six complete spec
screenplays.
Born in Michigan, raised in Indiana and Florida, she now
lives with her husand in New Mexico, a beautiful state of
mountains, pines, desert and cactus. She is married to
Steven Chappell, author.
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