M. K. Hume

M.K. Hume is an Australian author, born in 1948, and based in Brisbane, Australia.
Hume graduated as a teacher in 1967, specializing in Art and Ancient History before commencing teaching high school students. While teaching, she studied university courses as an external student in English and Ancient History. Along the way, Hume obtained a BA, an MA, a Master of Literary Studies degree and a Phd in Arthurian Literature.
In 1996, Hume was encouraged to enter an historical romance writing competition conducted by the Random House Publishing Group under the sponsorship of a popular women’s magazine. Hume had no interest in romance writing, but she dashed off a novel based on her family history. The novel won second prize from a massive field of recognised authors - and she won $5,000 for her efforts.
In 2007, Hume retiredfrom the Queensland Education Department, and immediately commenced to write a trilogy based on the life and times of King Arthur of Britain.
Hume’s agent, the Dorie Simmonds Agency in London, brokered a contract with Headline Review to publish the three books in the trilogy. This agreement soon became six books, for Hume soon produced a further trilogy on the life and times of Merlin, which is now a prequel to the Arthurian trilogy.
Her works are now published at six-monthly intervals, and the author maintains a punishing schedule involving eight hours of research and/or writing every day. She doesn’t believe that there is any such thing as ‘writer’s block’, and loves the whole creative process.
Hume intends to write at least 30 novels before ‘she drops off the perch’. She reads voraciously and adores meeting friends, attending rummage sales, making porcelain dolls and painting portraits.
Novel Series
The Arthurian Trilogy
When she decided to write her version of the Arthuriad, Hume remembered what she had been told years before at a lecture to “write about what you know!” Hume knew about the Arthuriad and the Dark Ages, so it was an obvious choice.
The Arthuriad also gave her an opportunity to place the story of Arthur to the correct time period, the 5th century. She was now in a position where she was able to use years of study in Art, Ancient History and Literature to build a factual world that might have existed in Arthur’s time.
Also, the current unrest in our world provided clear correlations with the Dark Ages, a theme that Hume couldn’t resist, although she tries not to be-labour the point. She believes many people are crying out for the old virtues of loyalty, duty, self-sacrifice, honesty, et al., and she uses these admirable qualities as underpinning to a way of life that is under constant attack.
Books
King Arthur: Dragon's Child. (Published February 2009).
Set in the latter part of the 5th Century, this novel describes Arthur’s life as a child, a youth and a young man as he trains to become a king and ruler of the Britons.
King Arthur: Warrior of the West. (Published September 2009).
Uther Pendragon, High King of the Britons dies, and Arthur assumes the throne. In this novel he is in his thirties and is at the height of his power. He manages to hold the Saxon invaders at bay, and builds a nation where men are free and justice rules in his lands.
King Arthur: The Bloody Cup. (Published February 2010).
Arthur is in his fifties and has started the downhill slide towards the end of his life. This novel includes the tale of the search for the Holy Grail and culminates with the death of the once and future king.
The Merlin Trilogy
Hume began writing the Merlin trilogy early in 2009. This series was written as a prequel to the King Arthur trilogy.

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