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Kate Loveday...writing about Australia.. |
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About Kate
Kate Loveday grew up in a seaside suburb
in Adelaide, South Australia. The only girl and the second eldest
amongst six brothers, she spent the sunny summers on the white
sandy
beach with her brothers and the cold, rainy winters indoors, reading.
Her love of books began in her childhood. She had started reading
novels in her early schooldays, beginning with mysteries (she was an avid Agatha Christie fan)
and progressing to Regency romances. By the time she left school she
was reading everything she could lay hands on from Charles Dickens and
Shakespeare to Georgette Heyer and Wilbur Smith.Always wanting to write, Kate wrote short stories in her early twenties but never submitted them for publication. Then raising a family and helping to run a family business cut short such aspirations. During her working life her writing was restricted to technical articles for trade magazines and training and promotional publications. Due to business commitments she moved to Sydney in 1988 and it was not until she and her husband Peter retired from the business they ran together, that she took the time to write in earnest. While spending three years caravaning in Australia she worked as a freelance travel writer for holiday magazines, with Peter contributing the photography. Many of these articles were of tropical Far North Queensland, a part of Australia that captivated her with its beauty and uniqueness. It was then that she formed the idea for her first novel "Inheritance", and it was natural to set it in the area she had come to love. |
| When Kate and Peter decided the time had come to stop being
nomads and settle down again, they realised that, in spite of their love
for Northern Queensland, they could not face the oppressive tropical summers
there on a permanent basis. They chose the beautiful Great Lakes area
on the lower mid-north coast of NSW, about 3 hours north of
Sydney and this is where they have put down roots now. Here, surrounded by green bushland where kangaroos come to visit and nibble the grass and birds fill the daylight hours with their song, Kate pursues her passion of writing, reading and listening to music. Exercise often takes the form of walks with their dog, Lucy, down to one of the nearby rivers that winds its peaceful way down to the beautiful Wallis Lake. Kate's first novel "Inheritance" is a contemporary romance mystery set in Far North Queensland and is published by Wings ePress. |
