Authors: Diana Hockley
The Naked Room (29 page)
Acknowledgements
I wish to thank my patient reviewers from The Next Big Writer workshop site, without whom NAKED ROOM would not exist. JL Campbell, sonny, Jessica Chambers, kyla, Verity Farrell, Carolyn Kuzcek, Caroline Kellems, Bob Keen, Patti, Susan Etheridge, Mike 2439, Keith Campbell, Isabel IV, Nathan B. Childs and Sol Nasisi, your site rocks!
And thank you to my dear friends Sergeant Cary Bensted, Pam Cairncross, Margaret van Blommenstein, Andrea March, and Robin Dunn for your kind encouragement and time in reading this manuscript.
Author’s Bio
Diana Hockley lives in a southeast Queensland country town, surrounded by her husband, Andrew, two cats and six pet rats. She is a dedicated reader, community volunteer, and presenter of a weekly classical program on community radio. She and her husband once owned and operated the famous Mouse Circus which travelled and performed throughout Queensland and northern New South Wales for ten years. They also bred Scottish Highland cattle. She has three adult children and three grandchildren.
She has had articles and short stories accepted and published in a variety of magazines, among them, Mezzo Magazine USA, Honestly Woman (Australia) the Highlander, Austin Times and Austin UK, Australian Women’s Weekly, It’s A Rats World, Solaris UK, Literary Journal of University of Michigan USA, Foliate Oak, children’s website Billabong. In 2006, she was awarded Scenic Rim Art Festival prizes for poetry and fiction in 2006.
Her next crime novel, The Celibate Mouse, featuring Detective Senior Sergeant Susan Prescott, will be published in 2011