Karen Maitland

Karen Maitland (born 1956, in England) is a British author of medieval thriller fiction. Maitland has an honours degree in Human Communication and doctorate in Psycholinguistics.^[1]

Her works include The White Room published in 1996^[2] by Yorkshire Art Circus; Company of Liars published in 2008 by Delacorte Press; and The Owl Killers, published in 2009 by Michael Joseph. The Gallows' Curse was published by Penguin Books in March 2011.

She also has a joint Medieval Murderers novel, The Sacred Stone, written together with medieval crime writers Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Susanna Gregory, and Philip Gooden.

She has worked as a writer and editor on a number of cross-cultural books including "Poems of Cultural Diversity" and "Cinders in the Wind". ^[1]

Maitland is dyslexic^[3] and resides in medieval city of Lincoln not very far from Sherwood Forest^[4]

Bibliography

Stand alone novels

• The White Room (1996)
• Company of Liars (2008)
• The Owl Killers (2009)
• The Gallows Curse (2011)
• The Falcons of Fire and Ice (2012)
• The Vanishing Witch (2014)^[5]
• The Raven's Head (2015)^[6]

Medieval Murderers

• The Sacred Stone (2010)
  (Written with Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Susanna Gregory and Philip Gooden)
• Hill of Bones (2011)

Awards

• "The White Room", was short listed for The Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award.^[1]
• "Company of Liars" was chosen as a Waterstone Book-of-the-Year^[4]
• "The Owl Killers" was a 2009 Shirley Jackson Award finalist

Memberships

• Crime Writers' Association
• Historical Novel Society
• Society of Authors
• International Thriller Writers

References

1. "Karen Maitland". Hilaryjohnson.demon.co.uk. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
2. "Karen Maitland". Fantasticfiction.co.uk. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
3. Shirley, The (12 July 2010). "The Shirley Jackson Awards Blog: Karen Maitland Interview (with Charles Tan)". Shirleyjacksonawards.blogspot.com. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
4. Raffel, Keith (19 February 2009). "The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland Archives – The Big Thrill". Thrillerwriters.org. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
5. Upcoming4.me (15 April 2014). "The Vanishing Witch by Karen Maitland cover art and synopsis". Upcoming4.me. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
6. Upcoming4.me (9 October 2014). "The Raven's Head by Karen Maitland cover art and synopsis". Upcoming4.me. Retrieved 10 October 2014.

External links

• Maitland's official website