Loraine Peck started her career as a portrait painter and magician’s assistant in Sydney. She has since dealt blackjack on the Gold Coast and then moved to the US where she had a sales job in the movie industry. She then returned to Australia and worked in marketing. Consumed by a desire to write crime …
Beth Prentice was born in Manchester, England, but after moving backwards and forwards across the world 13 times in 14 years she decided that at the age of 18 that Australia was to be her home. She now lives on the beautiful Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Killer Unleashed, her GHP debut novel, received a bronze …
Poppy lives in Brisbane, Queensland, with her husband, three children and two cats. She has worked as a journalist, editor and book reviewer and journalism/creative writing teacher. her first two books have both been set in Tasmania. Stand AloneBay of Fires (2013)Vanishing Falls (2020)
Rowena Holloway is an Australian writer of novels and short stories. Before settling on writing as a career, Rowena apprenticed as a hairdresser, played at receptionist in an engineering firm, indulged her love of learning by obtaining a handful of degrees, including a PhD in business, and was a tenured university lecturer. Author Website Fractured …
Mark Henshaw was born in Canberra, has studied medicine and music and has lived in France, Germany, Yugoslavia and the United States. He currently lives in Canberra. His first novel, Out of the Line of Fire (1988), won the FAW Barbara Ramsden Award and the National Book Council/Qantas New Writers Award. It was also shortlisted …
Adrian Deans is a lawyer, journalist and novelist. He has been writing seriously for 25 years and in that time has seen his darkly comic speculative fiction stories gradually morph into darkly comic crime – and those were the stories finally accepted for publication. Author Website Stand AloneMr Cleansheets (2010)Straight Jacket (2013)The Fighting Man (2017)Welcome …
Alex Hammond was born in South Africa and emigrated to Australia with his family as a child. He graduated with an Arts/Law degree from the University of Melbourne and worked for several Melbourne law firms. His first novel, Blood Witness, was shortlisted for a Ned Kelly Award for crime writing. Author Website Will Harris SeriesWill …
Tory Hayward has always been a reader but it wasn’t until 2005 when she was pregnant and coping with toddler that she embarked on her writing career. Her books were picked up and published first by Samhain Publishing and then Momentum Books, all under the pseudonym Caitlyn Nicholas. They rights have since been reverted to …
B. Michael Radburn draws inspiration for his novels from the NSW Southern Highlands where he lives and writes. His background is not the usual one following a battle with drugs and alcohol. He has interests in blues music and is a member of the Harley Davidson chapter (Sydney HOG) and works with Father Chris Riley’s …
Paul Howarth is a British-Australian author and former lawyer who holds an MA in creative writing from UEA, where he was awarded the Malcolm Bradbury Scholarship. Author Website Tommy and Billy McBride SeriesOnly Killers and Thieves (2018)Dust Off the Bones (2021)
