Karen Maitland
Karen Maitland (born 1956 in England) is a British author of medieval thriller fiction. Maitland has an honours degree in Human Communication and doctorate in Psycholinguistics.[1]
Her works include The White Room published in 1996[2] by Yorkshire Art Circus; Company of Liars published in 2008 by Delacorte Press; and The Owl Killers, published in 2009 by Michael Joseph. The Gallows' Curse was published by Penguin Books in March 2011.
She also has a joint Medieval Murderers novel, The Sacred Stone, written together with medieval crime writers Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Susanna Gregory, and Philip Gooden.
She has worked as a writer and editor on a number of cross-cultural books including "Poems of Cultural Diversity" and "Cinders in the Wind". [1]
Maitland is dyslexic[3] and resides in medieval city of Lincoln not very far from Sherwood Forest[4]
Bibliography
Stand alone novels
- The White Room (1996)
- Company of Liars (2008)
- The Owl Killers (2009)
- The Gallows Curse (2011)
- The Falcons of Fire and Ice (2012)
Medieval Murderers
- The Sacred Stone (2010)
(Written with Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Susanna Gregory and Philip Gooden) - Hill of Bones (2011)
Awards
- "The White Room", was short listed for The Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award.[1]
- "Company of Liars" was chosen as a Waterstone Book-of-the-Year[4]
- "The Owl Killers" was a 2009 Shirley Jackson Award finalist
Memberships
- Crime Writers' Association
- Historical Novel Society
- Society of Authors
- International Thriller Writers
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Karen Maitland". Hilaryjohnson.demon.co.uk. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
- ↑ "Karen Maitland". Fantasticfiction.co.uk. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
- ↑ Shirley, The (12 July 2010). "The Shirley Jackson Awards Blog: Karen Maitland Interview (with Charles Tan)". Shirleyjacksonawards.blogspot.com. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Raffel, Keith (19 February 2009). "The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland Archives – The Big Thrill". Thrillerwriters.org. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
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