Heather Parker lives in the Lake District with a collection of cats, dogs and a husband. Until recently she worked for the University of Cumbria but now writes freelance.  She has won prizes in several major UK competitions, and many of her stories have been published in popular magazines including The People's Friend, The Weekly News, The New Writer and Space and Time.

She was recently awarded The Benjamin Franklin House 2009 Literary Prize, in association with The Daily Telegraph. This award includes a prize of £1000.

Her novel 'Middlewitch' was published by Drollerie  Press  and could be described as Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Jeeves and Wooster.  It was inspired by her life in a small English village, although naturally there are no witches or ghosts there.  As far as she knows...
It is available from http://drolleriepress.com
and most online bookstores.

'Middlewitch Mayhem', the second book in the Middlewitch Chronicles eries was published on June 6th, 2011.  It is available from Drollerie Press, Amazon  and many other online publishers.

Her mini mystery, A Quiet Place in the Country, is set in the Lake District and has just been published by Wild Child Publishing.  It is available from the publisher and most online bookstores.

Other publishing credits include Abandoned Towers, The Ranfurly Review, Dogs Monthly, Woman's Weekly, Delivered, Secret Attic, Sniplits, The Scruffy Dog Review, Big Pulp, Expanded Horizons, Everyday Fiction, Emerald Tales, Bards and Sages, Hackwriters, Stories that Lift and Glassfire Magazine. 
Many of her stories appear in anthologies including The Out of Line 2009 Peace and Justice Anthology, Hoi Polloi 111 Literary Journal, Absent Willow Review Annual Anthology, Bridge House Publishing Anthology, Sunpenny Publishing Anthology, 50 Stories for Pakistan and Stories from Sendai. 

She enjoys writing all kinds of stories but her favourite genre is humour - particularly satire. Politicians, celebrities and bank managers make wonderful targets...  She really admires Terry Pratchett and enjoys all his Discworld novels. He combines humour and fantasy with such astute social and political comment. She would love to have written some of his books!

An excerpt from The Prime Minister and the Egg
(First prize in the Twyford Writers Humour Competition)

As dawn broke the following day, three cruise missiles crossed Kent and headed for London, the sophisticated hi-tech radar targeting the spaceship.
But everyone makes mistakes.
'This way, Ma'am,' said Cyril kindly, helping the old lady out of the ruined Palace.
'The aliens?' she whispered, wondering if this might be a good time to abdicate.
The MI6 man shook his head sadly. 'The Americans,' he replied and she nodded, understanding.
The second missile demolished the House of Lords, which the Prime Minister thought no bad thing but the third one hit its target. The Egg shattered into a thousand pieces, sending tentacles and flippers everywhere. So did Westminster Bridge, of course, but that's war for you and anyway it was quite old.

Website : http://www.heatherparker.co.uk
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