Vicki Stevens grew up listening to her father’s tales about daring boyhood adventures and courageous feats as a soldier in the Australian Army, This, along with a love of reading, and a vivid imagination, instilled in her a desire to tell her own stories. C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien opened her eyes to the fantastical, Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle to clever mysteries, and the chills gained fromreading Wuthering Heights, The Turn of The Screw, and Rebecca ignited a passion for suspense. Combined with a keen interest in genealogy, she now enjoys writing evocative and thrilling mysteries inspired by events from her family's history.
Shaking Trees, the first book in her Abby Eaton Mystery series was published in 2018, with the second book, Saving Dragonflies, in 2021.Flames to a Moth, a coming-of-age thriller written collaboratively with Gary Horwood, a memoir writer and old school friend, was published in 2020.
The tranquility and ambience of living with her husband, and doggo, Raffy, near the picturesque town of Dayboro on Brisbane’s rural fringe, stirs Vicki's creativity. Writers Rendezvous, a group formed by her in 2012 to learn the craft of writing and encourage local writers, has flourished in membership and achievements to the point of publication for many members.
Vicki Stevens publishes under her imprint Bloodwood Press, which represents her interests in genealogy and mystery/suspense writing
Favourite Quotes
'And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.' ~ Sylvia Plath
'No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.' ~ Robert Frost
'I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.' ~ Joss Whedon
The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.' ~ Carson McCullen 'I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.' ~ James A. Mitchener