Leanne Owens

I am currently writing the fifth book of The Outback Riders series - written for 8 - 14 year olds but the main audience seems to be older readers who like 'clean adventures' and remembering what it was like to be young and in love with horses. I'm also writing more books for adults - no 'adult only' scenes, but certainly adult issues, as seen in 'Muted' and 'Zo'.

Biography

I'm an Australian woman, born in Victoria where I spent my school years, then my university years and beyond have been in Queensland. I'm an English/History teacher with a Master's in Education. I lived in the outback for many years and moved to our 100 acres in the Lockyer Valley over 30 years ago where my husband and I raised our three children. I have lots of horses - if you're interested, just Google 'Leanne Owens' along with a term like 'horses', 'Days of Gold', or 'Horses of Gold' to see lots of photos - we've won over 30 national titles with them so they are reasonably well known. I love dogs - nothing really to add to that, you'll understand if you're a dog person, too. I've written for horse magazines on and off for four decades and also wrote and reported for Horse Talk TV. I love writing - I want readers to feel a big range of emotions when they experience my books, and I'm glad so many report just this in their five star reviews after reading them. I have dozens more books to write.