Keidi Keating

Keidi Keating, grew up on the edge of a council estate, in South East London. At the age of 18 she nabbed her first full-time job, as a reporter on a local newspaper. Three months later she accepted a position writing for corporate magazines in the City of London, a career she maintained for five years (particularly dull years, she recalls).

Fed up with typing monotonous words such as ‘incentive’, ‘initiative’ and ‘strategy’, she began searching for a fresh vacancy, something exciting and challenging.

In 2004, her parents announced they were upping sticks and moving to Spain. As Keidi understood it that meant swapping showers for sunshine and TV/sofa for beach. So she made a very wise decision to join them. Besides, what bigger challenge than to learn a new language, find a new job and meet new chums?!

The first three months of her new life in Spain were certainly the hardest. No job. No social life. Torrential rain. False job offers. A language barrier with knobs on. It seemed like Lady Luck was her greatest enemy.

But then the sun came out and life brightened up in ways that she had only ever dreamt were possible.

Nowadays Keidi is the Editor of The Sentinella magazine, in the Axarquia region of Spain. Alongside this she manages the franchise side of the business, supporting others to start their very own magazine in an area of their choice.

She is also busy launching a new writing business, helping authors to fine tune their work and ultimately land a publishing deal.

In between all this she has just finished writing her second novel, The Path, which she hopes to find a publisher for soon.

Her dreams are to be an internationally best-selling author, write at least one book a year, and watch her novels on the big screen.

Seven Things You Might Not Know About Keidi (But You Do Now)!

1. She collects frogs (not real ones). She received her first at the age of three from Father Christmas – pink and furry with dinner-plate eyes. She named it Pinkie and she still owns it now. Most her other frogs take the form of small ornaments, but she also has froggy candles, flannels, stickers, magnets…and even a froggy bathroom mat! Once a stalker stole part of her frog collection from the ledge outside her front door.
2. She hates cleaning! Her apartment isn’t TOO dirty, but she believes in the saying ‘a clean house is the sign of a wasted life’ so spends a very limited amount of time with mop in hand!
3. She meditates daily for at least half an hour and tries to think positive at all time. ‘Like attracts like’ is a favourite quote of hers and she believes most of the good things that have happened to her are due to her thought energy and her daily practise of the Law of Attraction.
4. She is cynophobic, which means she is petrified of dogs, especially the big ones with drooling mouths and sharp teeth. Where the fear stems from is unknown, as she has never been bitten by any creature (apart from various men)!
5. The most embarrassing thing that has even happened to her is when she fell all the way down the steps of a double decker bus and straight out the door. Luckily, she had wanted to get off at that stop, but perhaps in a more ladylike manner!
6. Once she didn’t realise until it was too late that a half-eaten bunch of cherries were infested with tiny maggots.
7. She was suspended twice from secondary school, once for disrupting the class and once for playing knock down ginger on the headmistress’s office door because there was nothing better to do. The headmistress (an ex-nun) was later caught stealing from the school funds and banged up for five years.