Kate Constable

Kate Constable

Kate Constable (born 1966) is an Australian author. Her first novel was "The Singer of All Songs", the first in the "Chanters of Tremaris" trilogy. It was later followed by "The Waterless Sea" and "The Tenth Power".

Constable was born in Sandringham, Melbourne.cite web |title= Kate Constable, About |publisher= Kate Constable official website |url= http://www.kateconstable.com/about/about.htm |accessdate = 2008-01-29] At the age of six, her family moved to Papua New Guinea for her father's work as a pilot.

She enrolled in an Arts/Law degree at Melbourne University. She finished her degrees in seven years, working part-time in various jobs. She settled into the job that was to become her main source of income for the next thirteen years: phone sales, administration assistant and occasional receptionist at Warner Music.

She started writing after many years at law school and at Warner. In 1993 her first short story, "Graham Remains", was published in the literary magazine "Meanjin". In 1996 she won second prize in the annual HQ short story competition.

After her first attempt at a novel, she met and fell in love with the man who is now her husband. She started to write fantasy books, the first of which became known as "The Singer of All Songs".

In 2001, she and her husband had a baby daughter, and "The Singer of All Songs" was accepted for publication only a few weeks later.

References

External links

* [http://www.kateconstable.com/about_me.html www.kateconstable.com] Official website


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