O is not a common letter when we’re looking at female science fiction authors and I had very few people to choose from, by the time I eliminated those I really wasn’t interested in I still had four and then I found Kate Orman and knew I’d found the one!
I mentioned the name to my DD who shook her head before the brain kicked in and the face lit up and the phrase ‘oh, her!’ burst forth. Orman means I get to give you links to the Facebook group of The Doctor Who Club of Victoria and their website before finally explaining what she’s done to deserve such treatment.
Orman writes Doctor Who novels, she was the first female to write Doctor Who novels and also the first Antipodean. That means she’s also the first female to have an entry in the Tardis Wikia, actually I’m only lying a little here as the first female would have to be Verity Lambert who was the very first producer for Doctor Who and made it what it is today. I’m just going to speculate that maybe Orman is following in Lambert’s footsteps, but speculating without any data at all.
Orman was born in Sydney but we won’t hold that against her. She’s written other things besides Doctor Who but has written more about the good Doctor than anything else.
More links so you can buy her books and make me a modest income of squillions of cents.
Blake’s Seven: Mediasphere – just to prove she’s written other stuff (this is with her husband, Jonathan Blum).
Doctor Who: The Year of Intelligent Tigers – a story featuring Paul McGann!
Agog! Terrific Tales and published with some other awesome writers such as Lucy Sussex as she delves into the realm of short stories.