Velvet Reed is the pen name of an avid book lover, reviewer and blogger who has turned writer. Born and raised in Sydney, Australia; she is a city girl at heart but loves the laid back lifestyle of living in country New South Wales. Married to her first and only love, she is a devoted mother of three who juggles her very active children and their many extracurricular activities, working in the middle of the night, running a blog, and writing. Velvet's love of reading was realised only 3 short years ago after the death of her amazing father. She used the escape into the fictional world to help