Sandy Curtis (Author of Until Death)

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Sandy Curtis lives on Queensland鈥檚 Central Coast, not far from the beach where she loves to walk and mull over the intricate plots in her novels. Her husband says he doesn鈥檛 know how she keeps it all in her head, and her friends think she must be far more devious than she appears.

Actually, after having dealt with the chaos involved in rearing three children, dogs, cats, guinea pigs, and a kookaburra (teaching it to fly was murder), creating complex characters, fast-paced action and edge-of-your-seat suspense is a breeze for Sandy.

At fourteen she wrote a story about a pickpocket who steals a wallet from an off-duty cop. To make sure her details were authentic, she wrote to Police Headquarters asking them about fingerprints. Her mother receiv Sandy Curtis lives on Queensland鈥檚 Central Coast, not far from the beach where she loves to walk and mull over the intricate plots in her novels. Her husband says he doesn鈥檛 know how she keeps it all in her head, and her friends think she must be far more devious than she appears.

Actually, after having dealt with the chaos involved in rearing three children, dogs, cats, guinea pigs, and a kookaburra (teaching it to fly was murder), creating complex characters, fast-paced action and edge-of-your-seat suspense is a breeze for Sandy.

At fourteen she wrote a story about a pickpocket who steals a wallet from an off-duty cop. To make sure her details were authentic, she wrote to Police Headquarters asking them about fingerprints. Her mother received a phone call wanting confirmation the query was genuine, and as Sandy hadn鈥檛 told her about the letter (or the story), she nearly had a heart attack thinking her daughter was in trouble with the law.

Sandy鈥檚 query resulted in an invitation to tour Police Headquarters with her teacher and several schoolfriends and meet the Police Commissioner. That鈥檚 when she learned that although the pen might be mightier than the sword, it does nothing to imbue self-confidence in an extremely nervous fourteen-year-old who had to shake the hand of Queensland鈥檚 top cop.

鈥淎ll my pocket money and birthday money went on purchasing books,鈥� Sandy says. 鈥淚 devoured them. My aunt and uncle used to let me borrow their Saturday Evening Post (American version) and Reader鈥檚 Digest. In one Saturday Evening Post I read a story called 鈥淭he Answer鈥� by Philip Wylie, about a nuclear explosion which kills an angel and the Defence Force鈥檚 efforts to prove it was 鈥榬eally an alien being鈥�. I was so impressed with the story I decided that one day I would become a story-teller like Philip Wylie.鈥�

Interviewers often ask Sandy to describe her normal writing day. 鈥淣ormal is when the chaos in my life subsides to frantic rather than frenzied. I once told a friend that I must have a chaos attractor glued on my forehead and she said that creativity hovers on the edge of chaos, to which I replied that I鈥檇 long ago fallen off the edge into the middle.鈥�

Her various occupations, from private secretary to assistant to a Bore Licensing Inspector, as well as hitch-hiking around New Zealand and learning to parachute, have given Sandy lots of people and research skills. It鈥檚 the paperwork going feral in her office she has trouble with. ...more

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	Grievous Harm 4.32 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deadly Tide 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dance with the Devil 3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	No Cure for Love 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Marriage Merger 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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