Back in the 1970’s, to finance her stint at Sydney University, Sonny Whitelaw worked as a photographer and commercial SCUBA diver. The yachtie lifestyle was ideally suited to working as a freelance photojournalist, and she went on to work as a staff writer and correspondent for several magazines. One thing led to another, and over the years she became involved in adventure tourism, and promoting tourism in general to Vanuatu.

In late 2000 she returned to Australia and in 2003, she completed the first draft of a fictional eco-thriller The Rhesus Factor, and began work on a second novel, Ark Ship. In 2004, The Rhesus Factor won a Draco Award for Excellence in Science Fiction. While Rhesus and Ark Ship were being prepared for publication in 2005, she received an offer too good to pass up, to write a proposal for a novel based on the television series, Stargate SG-1. Three months later the first draft of Stargate SG-1 City of the Gods was born.

Sonny's MA thesis in Speculative Fiction at the Queensland University of Technology was based on Stargate Atlantis The Chosen and Stargate Atlantis Exogenesis.

Sonny has recently launched Stargate SG-1 Roswell with Jennifer Fallon, just finished writing Stargate SG-1 Blood Ties with Elizabeth Christensen, and is currently working on a new SF-fantasy series set 50,000 years ago.