Kaye trained and worked as a fashion designer for fourteen years. During two years timeout for travel she caught the writing bug, when hired as a features assistant on a London magazine. On her return to Australia she decided the combination of writing and travel was the way to go. But no one can accuse her of quick career changes – a part time arts degree took the maximum ten years to complete, as did the Diploma of Writing and Editing which followed. During this time Kaye worked in the family publishing business, more recently as publisher and managing editor on Your Life magazine. A life long learner and try hard she has recently added basketball and bike riding to activities she pursues (albeit badly), but considers the challenges of parenting teenagers the most awesome and captivating experience of all.