'Karen McKinley worked as a reporter for Channel Nine’s Gold Coast News, the Gold Coast Bulletin and was the communications director for The Punch Group PR agency and publicist for the Somerset Celebration of Literature (Somerset Storyfest). Karen has two teenage daughters and lives between the Gold Coast and a farm at Maleny in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. Her favourite flower is a gardenia and as a kid she would often be found reading Enid Blyton books, roller skating or making up dances with her school friends.' (Amazon)