Katie Rowney’s debut novel Front Page News will be published by Penguin Random House. A former journalist, she now works in communications and owns far too much china.

Katie grew up on Tamborine Mountain, Queensland, and only made it as far as the big smoke of Brisbane city before settling down with her husband Magnus, two dogs and two cats.

She reads a minimum of three books a week, has an unhealthy obsession with David Bowie and tries to live her life as Indiana Jones would. You can find her on twitter @KatieRowney, but don’t expect anything intelligent.