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Michael
Panckridge
Michael Panckridge is a teacher who started writing to encourage
some of his sports-loving, but reluctant student readers to
enjoy books. He obviously hit the spot and now his best-selling
`Legends and Anniversary Legends' series have many fans and
have introduced children all over Australia to the joys of
reading. A self-professed sports fanatic, Michael still teaches
at Geelong College, though he is dividing his time between
his teaching and sports coaching duties at school and his
writing and school visits as an author |
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Felicity
Pulman
Felicity's writing reflects her fascination with the unknown
and with history, particularly medieval history. Her novels
include `The Janna Mysteries'- a medieval crime series for
teenagers set in the 1140's during the civil war between King
Stephen and his cousin Matilda. The novels follow the quest
of a young girl, a healer, to find her unknown father and
seek justice for the death of her mother. Along the way she
solves crimes and mysteries, including the truth of her own
identity and heritage. Book 1, `Rosemary for Rememberance'
is out now. Books 2 and 3 `Rue for Repentance' and `Lillies
for Love' will be published in March and October 2006.
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Felicity's novel `Shallot', won
the Society of Women Writers Award in the Young Adult Reader
category in 2001. `Return to Shallot' and `Shallot: The Final
Journey' continued the story of five Australian teenagers
zapped into the romance and intrigue of King Arthur's court
at Camelot.
`Ghost Boy' is a timeslip adventure for readers aged 9+ set
within the grisly history of the Quarantine Station in Sydney
in the 1880's. The 12 year old Froggy must conquer his fear
of drowning and learn to trust in order to solve the secrets
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Carole
Wilkinson
Carole Wilkinson is a quiet achiever of Australian publishing.
Her best- selling novel `Dragonkeeper' CBCA Book of the Year,
2004, has already been translated into more than six languages.
The sequel, `Garden of the Purple Dragon', had to be reprinted
before it was released and `Black Snake', her pacey tale of
the Ned Kelly legend has been re- released with a stunning
new cover as part of the `Drum' series. |
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series, the fantastical tale of the missing Egyptian Prince,
was released in February. Carole is currently writing a companion
volume to complement the Dragon books. |
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Raewyn Caisley
Raewyn Caisley has written four junior fiction titles in
2005. As a part of Lothian's Sports Fiction series each stand-alone
book centres around sport. `In Union', `Tennis Star', `Top
Marks' and `Not Cricket', have been really well received,
particulary by reluctant male readers aged around 8 - 12.
They're fun stories, and they've been so successful that Raewyn
has two books in the series scheduled for 2006, `Freestyle'
(May) about a swimmer who doesn't like being involved in team
sports, and `Great Land' (August) centred around a netball
team
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| She's a really wonderful speaker who would love
to be able to discuss writing books for boys, making books interesting
and life as a Western Australian writer away from the east coast. |
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Julia Lawrinson
Julia Lawrinson is a really lovely young writer. Her `Suburban
Freakshow' which came out in February 2006 is a YA book, about
Jay's first year of university. Even though she's breezing
through the classes, the social side is certainly a lot different
to what she expected. The non-stop parties in the dorms are
too much for her, so she's moved into a rundown old share
house with one of the freakiest hippies of all time. |
| Jay and her housemate are at loggerheads
until they realise they have a lot more in common than they
had thought. It's really funny, and is a great chronicle of
the weird and wacky goings on at uni. Julia has also written
the `Bad Bad Thing' which was published in February 2005.
Another YA story, `Bad Bad Thing' centres around Seb's trials
in trying to fit in with the popular girls at school- girls
who don't end up being her real friends. Julia's style is
very humor us and she's fantastic at getting into the mindset
of teenage girls. |
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Anthony Eaton
Born in New Guinea in 1972, I grew up in Perth and on the
Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean where, at a young
age, I learnt to drive a boat, swim, and catch hermit crabs,
and did a lot of reading. After my family returned to Perth,
I finished high school, and went on to study (among other
things), English, Politics, Philosophy, Theatre Arts and History
at university, before finally becoming an English teacher
at Trinity College.
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guard, car park attendant, sailing instructor and rowing coach,
and I enjoy anything to do with water, as well as travelling,
skiing, cycling, hiking, reading and, of course, writing. In
1997, after meeting Queensland author Gary Crew at a writer's
workshop at the Fremantle Children's Literature Centre, I started
writing professionally. My first attempt at a novel was uniformly
rejected by pretty much every publisher in Australia (and quite
rightly so), but my second attempt, The Darkness was published
in 2000 by the University of Queensland Press. Since then I
have written five books for readers ranging from 7 - 100 years
old. My books have won awards both in Australia and internationally.
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