Even as a kid, Elaine loved to make up stories, but guessing it wouldn’t be easy to earn a living as an author (and eat!) she trained as a journalist instead. At least she could still write! Jobs in papers, PR and radio followed and then after a move from the UK to Australia various roles on various magazines took her from sub-editing to deputy-editing. And all the time she was writing – fiction, fiction and more fiction – anything from love stories to crime to teen romances, and a mix of all three. Success came with numerous short stories published in various magazines, but with a cupboard bursting with book manuscripts she started South SEAS Publishing (www.southseaspublishing.wordpress.com) and the rest, as they say, is history. She is currently writing the third in The Glenwillow Castle Trilogy, and planning the next Chief Inspector Hilary Heart novel, and with her 12-year-old daughter has written five books about time-travelling siblings, Chip and Skip. Having travelled widely, she draws on her experiences for inspiration, and currently lives in Australia with her family, and a menagerie of pets.