Cat lives in Upper Hutt, New Zealand, with her husband and the youngest three of their seven children. She is a long time member of Backspace.org, (an online writers group). Cat is very active on MySpace, as are her two main characters (Ellie Conway and Mac Connelly), which is proving to be a lot of fun.  In the last few years her short stories have appeared in ThrillerUK, Mystericale, Bewildering stories, T-zero, The Writers Post Journal and Conceit Magazine. Currently Bewildering Stories are considering another of her shorts.
The idea for her first Conway novel, Killerbyte, came about after Cat received a string of death threats while co-running a poetry chat room, back in the days of MSN chat. The thought that people could get so nasty online fascinated her. The second novel, Terrorbyte, grew from a conversation about living with a mentally ill parent with the real life model for Mac Connelly.

Cat worked in a voluntary capacity for the Police, for five years, going out on late-night patrols, learning and implementing surveillance techniques, and even wangling her way into search and seizure operations, etc. This provided a great source of information for her writing (and still does). She carried out extensive research of locations and procedures (picking the brain of a Special Agent friend), including having friends visit and document the locations she chose – in Virginia.

Cat took part in Nanowrimo in 2007 and 2008. In 2008, she used Nanowrimo to write the fourth Conway novel, Ethernet. Cat’s currently working on the fifth Conway novel, Satellite.

You can find Cat on My Space, Facebook, Twitter, and her blog.



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