At the age of 27, Karen was living a conventional life as a mother and housewife in Lincolnshire. Then she met Colin Baker in 1997. Following this, she spent 13 years meeting the stars of DOCTOR WHO, travelling round the country attending conventions and watching plays. This is the story of those meetings...
Karen Louise Hollis was born in Lincoln in 1969 and has written several books including ones on gymnastics, motherhood and Doctor Who, as well as a short story collection and two poetry collections.
In 2018, her second book on gymnastics was published - Gymnastics : A Golden Era 1985-89 and in August, Decades came out - a collection of short stories and poetry written over four decades.
Over the last few years, she has been concentrating on her new series of interviews with famous gymnasts - Gymnasts In Conversation.
In 2022, her first novel Welcome to Whitlock Close was published.
In 2023, her second novel Starting Again in Silver Sands Bay - a second chance romance set in a seaside town - was published.
In November 2023, her third novel came out - Over The Garden Fence - about two neighbours in their seventies, realising they want to do a lot more yet...