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 I
am a writer. My next novel, The Ultimate Fairy Book,
will be out from Bloomsbury USA in September 2008. I'm currently
writing a new novel. Maybe about lying alien lodgers. Or possibly
a werewolf snowboarding epic. Depends.
 I
am the author of the Magic or Madness trilogy, in
which the door of a house in Sydney opens
onto a street in New York City. The first volume, Magic
or Madness, was published to rapturous
reviews in March 2005 by Penguin
Razorbill USA. It was published by Penguin
Australia
in September 2005.
Magic
or Madness won the 2007 Andre
Norton Award. It was shorlisted for the Ethel
Turner Award, one of the New
South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for 2006, as well
as an Aurealis Award for best Australian YA book and a Ditmar
Award for best Science Fiction or Fantasy novel. It was also
nominated for The Teen Services Division of the Michigan Library
Association's Thumbs
Up Award. Magic or Madness was a best book of
the year selection for School
Library Journal, Tayshas
(the Young Adult Round Table of the Texas Libary Association),
the  Australian
children's literature magazine, Magpies, as well
as making the ALA (American
Library Association) 2006
Best Books for Young Adults list, the Locus
Recommended Reading List and the Bank
Street best
teen books of the year list.
The sequel, Magic
Lessons, was
shorlisted for an Aurealis Award for best Australian YA book
as well as a Locus
award. It was a best book of the year selection for Insideadog
and the CCBC
Choices List as well as making the 2006
Locus Recommended Reading List.
The
final book in the trilogy, Magic's Child, was published
in Australia and the USA in early 2007. The trilogy has sold
to Brazil, France,
Germany, Italy, Taiwan
and Thailand.
I've also edited a scholarly collection of
feminist science fiction in the twentieth century, Daughters
of Earth, consisting of stories from 1927 through
to 2002, accompanied by wonderful
essays from many of the best
sf scholars in the world. It was shortlisted
for a British Science Fiction Award and won
the Susan
Koppelman Award as well as the William
Atheling Jr. Award. It's published by Wesleyan
University Press. The grouse cover, which looks
even better in real life, is by Cat
Sparks.
My first book, the
Battle of The Sexes in Science Fiction was nominated
for the Peter
McNamara Convenors' Award, the William J. Atheling Award
and the Hugo
for Best Related Book. It was listed by Locus
as one of the
15 Top SF and Fantasy Anthologies, Collections, Non fiction
books, and Art books of 2002 and was an editor's
pick at Fantastic Metropolis.
I've also written a short film about the
legend of King Midas,
co-written a
radio show
about relationship breakups, as well as essays on American
science fiction culture in the 1940s and 1950s, with detours
into Buffy
the Vampire Slayer and the
occasional short story.
I was born and raised in Sydney,
Australia, punctuated by sojourns to other parts of Australia
with my anthropologist parents and younger
sister, including two small Aboriginal settlements in
the Northern Territory. The world has always seemed an odd
and fascinating place to me.
Me and my husband, sf and YA writer Scott
Westerfeld, are based in Sydney, but we travel a lot,
most frequently to New York City, but also to San Miguel de
Allende (Mexico), Dunedin (New Zealand), Buenos Aires (Argentina),
or wherever else strikes our fancy. We're both convinced it's
much easier to get work done far from home. Sometimes that
turns out to be true.
To find out more about me you
can read these interviews or have a squiz at my
faq.
Literary
agent:
Jill
Grinberg
Jill Grinberg Literary Management
244 5th Avenue, 11th floor
New York, NY 10001
212-620-5883
Translation
rights Magic or Madness trilogy:
Whitney Lee
The Fielding
Agency, LLC.
269 South Beverly Drive, #341
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
310-276-7517
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