"If I already knew all about the subject, what fun would there be in writing about it?"

WELL GROUNDED WRITER TACKLES A HIGH FLYING ADVENTURE

Sunny Fader had never flown a plane or been to Alaska, still this didn't deter her from writing a book about an adventurous young Alaskan bush pilot. But then she has made a career of writing about things she knew little or nothing about... before getting the assignment.

Whether the medium was print, film, video, television, or radio, throughout her multifaceted writing career, Sunny Fader has always been drawn to projects with steep learning curves, projects that required her to educate herself about the subject before setting pen to paper or, in recent years, fingers to computer keyboard.

Sunny Fader does not profess to be an expert on any of the many subjects she has tackled in a career that began in print and expanded to encompass radio, film, video and television. What she is, she says, is a good listener and a passionate researcher, genuinely interested in other people's stories.

This is what has enabled her to write books on archery, though she has never shot an arrow, and a police training film series, though she has never worn a badge. This why she could write a book on sperm banking, though she has been neither a recipient nor a donor, and write and field produce numerous films and television specials on medical subjects such as childhood cancer and juvenile diabetes, without any medical background. This is what has enabled her to tell the stories of overseas missionaries for film and television and in a syndicated weekly radio series she wrote and produced, without any background in missionary work. Even when she ventured into the field of episodic television to write a script for the television series, Quincy, Sunny Fader chose to base her story on an actual court case, and enrich it with extensive research about the rare psychological disease that prompted the crime. "If I already knew all about a subject," Fader says, "what fun would there be in writing about it?"

It was her talent for listening to and communicating other people's stories that enabled Fader to produce her latest book, "Land Here? You Bet!" This coming-of-age adventure recounts the initiation of a young pilot into the world of bush flying. It takes place over three summers in the early 1950's: two during which he flew for a U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey team in Alaska, and one during which he flew off glaciers in British Columbia for a prospector.

But "Land Here? You Bet?" differs from anything Sunny Fader has ever written before in one important way: It was not a work-for-hire. Fader undertook this book, she says, purely as a work of love. She wrote it as a tribute to her friend, Ted Huntley.

"What I wanted to do," Fader says, "was to capture the essence of his passion and love of life; that special quality of his that inspired and encouraged me, and so many others who profited from his mentoring. I wanted to write a book about Ted that would give the reader the same feeling of energy and encouragement that we got from Ted's stories and the way he lived his life."

Fader also credits Ted Huntley for giving her the courage to pursue her current writing project, her first fiction undertaking. Fader's newest book, "Powder Boys," is a young adult historical novel based on the actual experiences of two young boys, one a free Black, the other White Scotch-Irish. It is the story of how they went to sea on a privateer under the command of Stephen Decatur, Sr. during the American Revolution, and ended up incarcerated on the notorious British Prison Ship, the Jersey. Like "Land Here? You Bet!", "Powder Boys" is also a coming-of-age tale, and a work of love.

CAREER OVERVIEW (Partial listing)

o B.A. Pennsylvania State University
o Graduate, Philadelphia School of Advertising
o Member, Writer's Guild of America, West
o Assistant Director of Promotion, WCAU-TV, Philadelphia
o Owner, Sunny Fader & Company (Formed to write and edited Corporate internal and consumer publications.)
o Creative Director, Tel Air Interests, Miami, Florida (Corporate film production company)
o Partner, Creative Director, Associated Image Makers, Winterhaven, Florida (Television Production Company)
o Associate Professor, Broadcast Journalism, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
o Writer/Producer, Walt Disney Educational Media, Burbank, California
o Adjunct Professor, Screen Writing, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California
o Free lance writer, Episodic Television
o Freelance writer and field producer, Television documentaries and television specials,, Corporate and Educational Films.
o Author: "Land Here? You Bet!"