Dobbie has written bestselling works under several pseudonyms, often with themes of history and gold fields.<\/p>\n
She said she has a love for the sea that stems from travels with her father when she was a child.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love lighthouses, I find them interesting and especially in Tasmania their so wild and isolated and really interesting places,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I was young, five or six, my father built a boat and we lived on that for a couple of years, I had that seafaring part of the story.<\/p>\n \u201cI grew up in Drysdale on the Bellarine peninsula, my father built the boat and we sailed up the coast.<\/p>\n \u201cWe ended up at Yamba on the north coast of New South Wales and I went to school there. I worked in Brisbane for a couple of years and my parents moved back to Victoria to Dunolly.\u201d<\/p>\n Dobbie eventually found employment in Bendigo and met her husband, all the while finding time to work on her passion of writing.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s part of you,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen you\u2019ve got that creative thing it\u2019s hard to not do it. I\u2019ve had time off where I haven\u2019t worked, and I always start to really miss it. You have to do something.\u201d<\/p>\n The author said while she hasn\u2019t fully thought out her next novel, she is interested in writing mysteries and stories set in regional Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A HISTORIC shipwreck, a Bass Strait island and a lighthouse provide the setting for Bendigo author Kaye Dobbie\u2019s latest book. A dual-timeline novel, The Keepers of the Lighthouse is set in 1882 and present day, with secrets of the past uncovered by an expedition team who face their own struggles with sabotage. Dobbie has written […]<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2022\/08\/9781489249180-1-195x300.jpg\")