Katharine R. Pepper

I've always loved reading books, but secretly I think I've always been a frustrated novelist!

My first efforts, when I was around 19, were corny, romantic stories with heroes who looked very much like Tom Selleck in his "Magnum PI" days!

Years passed. I got married, had children, got divorced, married again - all the usual stuff, and finally rediscovered writing when I moved to Queensland in 2000 and joined the Gold Coast Writers' Association.

Soon after this I joined The Ten Penners, a subgroup of the GCWA. We've released three anthologies for children - "Fan-tas-tic-al Tales" in 2009, "Mystery, Mayhem & Magic" in 2017 and "Backyard Beasts & Curious Capers" in 2023.

I have written three novels - "Shadow of a Soldier", "The Players" (both for adults), and "Kylie Cooper and the Misplaced Bushranger" (YA). I'm currently working on two Kylie sequels, two comic crime novels, and a standalone YA novel.