About the author

Katharine R Pepper

<p>Katharine R. Pepper&#160;has always loved reading books, but secretly she's always been a frustrated novelist. Her first efforts, around the age of 19, were corny, romantic stories banged out on a manual typewriter (with heroes who looked very much like Tom Selleck in his <em>Magnum PI</em>&#160;days (#showingherage)). Let's just say they were good typing practice!</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Katharine&#160;has lived in Melbourne, Grafton, Alice Springs and Adelaide, been&#160;married twice and divorced once, has two (now adult) children with Husband No. 1 and a stepson with (current) Husband No.&#160;2.&#160;She finally rediscovered writing when she moved to the Gold Coast with her children in 2000 (after separating from Husband No. 1) and joined the Gold Coast Writers&#8217; Association. Soon after this, she became part of The Ten Penners, a subgroup of the GCWA. The group has released three anthologies for children:&#160;<em>Fan-tas-tic-al Tales&#160;</em>in 2009, <em>Mystery, Mayhem &amp; Magic</em>&#160;in 2017 and&#160;<em>Backyard Beasts &amp; Curious Capers</em>&#160;in 2023.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>She&#160;has published&#160;two novels:&#160;<em>Shadow of a Soldier </em>in 2013 (previously released&#160;under the&#160;name&#160;"Kate Russell", but now updated with a new cover for&#160;2021)&#160;and&#160;<em>The Players, </em>also&#160;in 2021.&#160;Katharine&#160;has six other novels in progress:&#160;two with a crime scene cleaner as the protagonist, three featuring a teenage witch (YA), and one standalone historical fantasy (YA).&#160;&#160;</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Katharine&#160;has been a member of the Queensland Writers Centre and Sisters in Crime for many years. She also has a blog:</p>&#13; &#13; <p>https://katharinerpepperauthor.wordpress.com/</p>&#13; &#13; <p>(which she doesn't update nearly enough).</p>&#13; &#13; <p/>