Karen J Carlisle is a writer and illustrator of speculative fiction - steampunk, Victorian mystery and fantasy.
She graduated in 1986, from Queensland Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Optometry and lives in Adelaide with her family.
Adventures of Viola Stewart series
This is a Victorian Mystery series set in a steampunk fantasy world featuring Viola Stewart, a widowed optician with a penchant for detectiving
Doctor Jack & Other Tales (2015)
Eye of the Beholder (2016)
The Illusioner and Other Tales (2017)
Tomorrow When I Die (2021)
Department of Curiosities series
The Department of Curiosities is a steampunk tale of adventure, a heroine, mad scientists, traitors and secrets
For the Good of the Empire (2019)
Secrets of the Empire (2023)