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Emma Nwanne Ibegbulem
Born Nigerian, Emma Nwanne Ibegbulem lives in Rome. She teaches English as a Second language at a language school in the Italian capital. She studied fine arts and loves painting a...view moreBorn Nigerian, Emma Nwanne Ibegbulem lives in Rome. She teaches English as a Second language at a language school in the Italian capital. She studied fine arts and loves painting as much as she loves writing romance fiction. She discovered her talent for writing, after she had begun painting, when she was about eleven. She wrote several short stories for children her age, and younger. They were never published. Then a significant change in her life occurred when she started reading romance fiction. This genre drew out the passion in her, gave her inspiration, and propelled her into expressing what she feels not only in colours, but also in words. She wrote her first full romance fiction at the age of eighteen. It was never published.
Why Historical Romance?
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are like plain, white canvases for me. They provide settings in which all the possible colours in the romantic colour wheel can be used to paint passion with words. It is an era when passion was at its highest … when love was true, and true love could be shared after having conquered thousands of obstacles. This is what keeps the fire burning. I’m able to express romance in this period for it is dreamlike. A lot about this period is romantic. There was time, there was poetry, there was nature, there was sorrow, there was pain … and all these set the scene for the perfect romance.
I started writing the Dark Intruder in late 1999, shortly after my arrival in Rome, my emotional commitment with an Italian male, and my discovery of the enchanting Castelli Romani. The Dark Intruder reflects a yearning for the unknown, that force that draws us towards things new and curious and the fact that encounters with the unknown are vital and thrilling.
From my emotionally curious nature, I’ve been able to create an atmosphere nourished by emotions accumulated in a new world, Rome. By origin and upbringing, the uniquely inward passion, which cannot be explained in words alone, reflects in my daily life. My artistic gift, the role that has nurtured me all my life, has made of me the sensitive, and more pertinently, the passionate creator of romantic ideals as they have been handed down to me by nature.
I consider myself an emotional wanderer—a young writer growing up, seeking wholeness in love, and expressing this wholeness in words and colours.view less