Karen Perkins lives in Yorkshire, where she spends her time writing as well as editing and formatting as proprietor of LionheART Publishing House. She has been a keen sailor since childhood, competing nationally and internationally until the day she had both National and European Ladies Champion titles - and a terminally bad back. She has written one novella (Ill Wind) and one full-length novel (Dead Reckoning - long-listed in the Mslexia Novel Competition 2011) in the Valkyrie Series, both of which are number one bestsellers in Sea Adventures on Amazon.co.uk. A further Valkyrie novel, Look Sharpe! will be published at the beginning of 2014, followed by Ready About! Both books follow the fortunes of Henry Sharpe, a character we have already met in Ill Wind and Dead Reckoning. Relationships are turned upside down and secrets revealed. Karen Perkins has also written the novel, Thores-Cross. A dark, haunting tale set in the North Yorkshire Moors about isolation, superstition and persecution, Thores-Cross follows the stories of Emma, a present day writer, and Jennet, an eighteenth century witch. Thores-Cross is a number one bestseller in British Horror on Amazon.com. In the LionheART series of publishing guides, The LionheART Guide to Editing Fiction is available in UK and US editions as well as The LionheART Guide to Formatting.