L.J. LaBarthe

L. J. LaBarthe is an Australian woman who is a writer, a reader, a daydreamer, a cat wrangler, a carer, a researcher, a music lover, a film buff and a traveler. Sometimes, all at once!

Author of paranormals, historicals, dystopians, sci-fi, fantasy and contemporaries, L.J. was born during the Witching Hour, just after midnight. From this auspicious beginning, she went on to write a prize-winning short story about Humpty-Dumpty wearing an Aussie hat complete with corks dangling from it when she was six years old. In her teen years, she wrote for her high school yearbook, her university newspaper, and produced a fanzine about the local punk rock music scene.

L.J. loves to read complicated plots and hopes to do complex plot lines justice in her own writing. She has won a Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention, an award for Best Historical Gay Novel and another for Best Paranormal Novel. L.J. lives in the city of Adelaide, is owned by her cat and is a carer for her elderly mother.