Having been telling tales (the good kind and the cheeky) since before memory Kirstie Olley first put fingers to keyboard at age eight when she attempted to write her own 'Goosebumps' tale. She continued on to teach her ninth grade English teacher the importance of setting word counts for short story assignments by handing in a 27 page novella. Word counts remain her greatest foe to this day(apart from big hairy spiders).She prefers to write fantasy but moves throughout the speculative fiction genre playing with fairy tales, super heroes and the odd bit of science fiction. She has a particular penchant for cross-dimensional tales.Kirstie Olley lives in Brisbane, Australia with her husband T-J, toddler Xander and the rest of her menagerie and is a self-professed Japanophile.