Biography
Heather Parker has won prizes in several literary competitions, including the 2009 Benjamin Franklin House / Daily Telegraph Literary Prize. Many of her stories and articles have been published in popular magazines including The People's Friend, The Weekly News and The New Writer. Her first novel has been published by Drollerie Press with a sequel to follow shortly, and a minibook has been published by Wild Child Publishing.
Other publishing credits include Dogs Monthly, Space and Time, Bridge House Publishing, Expanded Horizons, Bards and Sages, GlassFire Magazine, Absent Willow Review, Big Pulp, Outercast, The Ranfurly Review, Woman's Weekly, Delivered, Secret Attic, Sniplits, Abandoned Towers, Stories that Lift, Labyrinth Inhabitant Magazine, Everyday Fiction, Emerald Tales, and Bottom of the World. Her stories also appear in the Out of Line Human Rights Anthology 2009, Little Sisters Anthology, and the Sonar 4, Hoi Polloi and Absent Willow Review annual anthologies. (See Writing CV at the left of this page).
Heather enjoys writing all kinds of stories but her favourite genre is humour - particulary satire. Politicians, celebrities and line dancers all make wonderful targets!
Her first novel Middlewitch has been published in ebook format by Drollerie Press and can be downloaded via the link above or at Amazon Kindle, Mobipocket and Fictionwise. It will be available as an audio book shortly, and a sequel is due out later in 2010.
Middlewitch could be described as 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Jeeves and Wooster' and was inspired by life in a small English village - although naturally there are no witches or ghosts there, as far as we know . . .!
Her mini-mystery, A Quiet Place in the Country, has been published by Wild Child Publishing and is available from the publisher - or most online bookstores.