K.E. Martin is the fiction name of respected non-fiction author and editor Kathy Martin. Her first novel, The Woodville Connection, was published by Pen & Sword Books in 2013.

The youngest of six sisters, Kathy grew up in the Sixties in a small Buckinghamshire village. She achieved her first publishing success as a teenager but it was many more years before her dream of writing full-time became a reality. Although it was always Kathy’s ambition to write historical fiction, she honed her skills along the way by writing for a variety of different publications.

However, her first real success came in 1987 when she was a finalist in Cosmopolitan’s ‘New Journalist’ competition. Soon after this, her interest in antiques and collectables led her to a long career writing for and editing magazines relating to the collectables hobby. She also works occasionally as a valuer on Flog It, the BBC’s popular antiques show.

Kathy is passionate about history, literature and musical theatre and she retains a strong interest in antiques and collectables. A member of the Richard III Society and the Society of Authors, she lives in Berkshire with her husband, daughter and an elderly Golden Retriever called Tova.