BRONWYN RUST
Born and raised in sub-Saharan Africa, in the small city of East London, on the Wild Coast of South Africa. Bronwyn grew-up as the youngest of two children in a middle-class family of four.
Bronwyn is of German and Irish blood ancestry, she stands at 5 feet, has green eyes, is fair-skinned, with long dark brunette hair. She wears glasses for reading. She was known to have a 'death-stare' in High School, and was coined the nickname 'Wednesday.'
She displayed a very early love for animals which only grew stronger over the years. She is very close with her dogs and loves them implicitly, she has said openly that they have saved her life.
Bronwyn Rust always had it in the back of her mind, that she would one day like to write a book.
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She was an average student, but being a dreamer, her interests were elsewhere...anywhere else.
After graduating High School, she got her first job as a bartender, and at the age of nineteen, she left South Africa, solo, on a two-year visa, working and travelling through the UK.
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It was after experiencing a tragic loss when she returned, that threw her into darkness.
It was a traumatic loss and she was inconsolable. She fell into a deep depression and was highly medicated. ​
She was self-diagnosed, and later confirmed, as Bi-polar and a sufferer of major depression, which she credits her dogs, medication and playing the guitar, in helping her cope with her illness.
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After about a year to 2 years, after the loss; Bronwyn began writing. Initially, it was nothing more than a catharsis. A coping mechanism. She wrote days, nights, weekends, into the early hours of the morning, researching tirelessly, getting lost in the internet, from dusk through 'til dawn.
She had a Google history, you would be concerned about someone finding.
Writing about how she felt, her religion, her mental illness, about life and death, and the meaning of it all, if there even was a reason for it all. She wrote about things she wanted to say, but now couldn't.
Angellove was born.
It became her love letter, to her love.
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The novel; a dark thriller about loss, centers primarily on Medical Examiner, Madison Für Immer, and her close family and friends.
What she says about the book, "Although it's fiction, it was based, inspired, and a true account of my feelings throughout the loss. Some events in the book, did happen. Some conversations in the book, did take place. Some characters in the book, do exist. In a lot of ways, it's like an autobiography of my mind; a mental and emotional documentary."
It's fiction based on the author's reality.
'Angellove: We were the Lucky ones.' tackles; addiction, loss, mental illness, the justice system, what is good and what is bad, the difference between what is right and what is wrong...and if there even is a difference at all, and many other issues and theories.
'Angellove: We were the Lucky ones.' is the first book penned by Bronwyn Rust. It tells the story of loss, love, friendship, and faith...and the battles with each.
She states about the book, "It was a labour of a lot of love, a lot of pain, and a lot of wine."
When Bronwyn is not writing, she enjoys the company of her dogs, and stays away from cellphones and social media. She enjoys exploring other artistic avenues, such as; painting, sketching, playing guitar.
She enjoys tackling home renovation projects, and quiet evenings in with the pups, and a bottle of wine.
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Bronwyn Rust currently resides in her hometown of East London, in the Eastern Cape, on the Wild Coast of South Africa, with her feline Luna.
"There's no place like home."
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Her other areas of interests:
Firearms, weapons, forensics and forensic technologies, pathology and autopsies, biology, crime, mental illnesses, psychiatry, animals and nature, God and the afterlife, music, guitars, film, special effects, mythology, art, poetry, travel, Gothic architecture, muscle cars...
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