Katy Krump

Welcome to my author page. A special welcome to those that landed here accidentally.

Since this is called my 'Author Page', I'm going to tell you a little about me.

I was born and raised in South Africa where I qualified as a teacher, teaching English and Music. I wrote five children's musicals that were published in SA and sold extensively throughout the country and into Africa, and are still being performed over there. I left teaching to become a full-time television scriptwriter in 1994, working on an award winning South African children's programme, Kideo. I entered a nationwide scriptwriting competition and was selected to be on the writing team of Generations, a multi-lingual soap - South Africa has eleven official languages. Fun, but strange. I also wrote advertising copy, radio jingles and adverts and then moved into writing textbooks and readers for illiterate and semi-literate adults.

I worked on CD rom voiceovers for the Independent Electoral Committee before the first democratic elections. Some of my music was performed to the United Nations observers and was also recorded and broadcast on South African television. I've also written corporate video scripts and created and directed a children's series for Impact media in SA.

I emigrated to the UK in 2000 and became a naturalized citizen in 2005. Since being in the UK I've written animation scripts for Waterston TV (in development) and have been pursuing the writing dream.

In 2012, after many years of hard work, I signed a 4 book deal with Ghostly Publishing. A dream come true. Sadly the company closed last year. But all is not lost.

I'm now with GLUE Publishing and I'm going to stick with them for the foreseeable future. I write YA scifi and children's fantasy and have had three books released. Blue Dust: Forbidden (nominated for the Costa Book Awards), Blue Dust: Destiny, and the final in the series, Insurrection, released 2015 by GLUE Scifi. A children' fantasy, Drippy Face, was released in 2015 under the GLUE banner. All very exciting as it's been a long road getting here. I've also written a thriller, When Killers Cry under the name K.A.Edwards. It's out on kindle and paperback .

I'm currently working on a number of projects including two commissions. I visit schools and various groups to talk about my writing or about what it was like growing up during apartheid.

If you're interested in me coming to visit your school, club, cruise ship (it could happen!) please drop me a line and I'll get back to you.

You could always pop over to www.katy-krump.co.uk

OR

www.glue-publishing.co.uk

I'm also on Facebook and twitter if you're that way inclined

@katykrump

www.facebook.com/katykrump

Let me know how you like my books. Even if you don't, I'd love to hear from you. Really. I would.