Bio
I am a writer. My most recently published novel, How to Ditch Your Fairy, is vastly silly and was so much fun to write that it should have been illegal. My next novel, Liar, will be out in October 2009. I’m currently writing a novel set in New York City in the 1930s, which involves having to wear 1930s-style clothes, listen to lots of Duke Ellington & Count Basie, and watch movies like The Thin Man and Easy Living and Jewel Robbery over and over. Not to mention learning how to lindy hop. Oh, how I suffer!
I am also the author of the Magic or Madness trilogy. I’ve edited a scholarly collection of feminist science fiction in the twentieth century, Daughters of Earth and a scholary tome, the Battle of The Sexes in Science Fiction.
I’ve written a short film about the legend of King Midas, 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 co-wrote a radio show about relationship breakups with Ellen Kushner.
I am a Sydney girl. Though I have lived in other parts of Australia, courtesy of my anthropologist parents, including Newcastle, Canberra, and two small Aboriginal settlements in the Northern Territory. The world has always seemed an odd and fascinating place to me.
To find out more about me you can read these interviews or have a squizz at my faq. I also have a twitter feed.
- NaNo Tip No. 20: Don’t Wait for the Muse to Strike
It’s day twenty and I’ve seen some talk on NaNoNoWriMo blogs of muses showing up or, more often, not. I’m sure for some of you muses are a very useful metaphor for your creative process. However, sitting on your arse waiting for them to show up? Frequently not a good approach to actual writing.
“Oh noes! …
- Liar Question
- NaNo Tip No. 18: Breaking with Stereotypes
- Blank Page Heroine
- NaNo Tip No. 16: Edit as You Go
Blog
Archives
Appearances
19-22 November 2009
NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English)
Philadelphia, PA
22 November 2009, 1:00-3:00PM
A NOVEL IDEA:
A benefit for the
Philadelphia Free Library
summer reading program
Laurie Halse Anderson, Jay Asher,
T.A. Barron, Sarah Dessen,
Steven Kluger, Justine Larbalestier,
David Levithan, Lauren Myracle,
Scott Westerfeld, Jacqueline Woodson
Children’s Book World
17 Haverford Station Road
Haverford, PA
Interviews
I’m interviewed about the Liar cover by CBC’s Arts Program Q (Canada).
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(28 August 2009)
The Book Resort interviews me. (6 July 2009)
I am interviewed by Meg at Literary Life. (19 April 2009)
In which I am IMterviewed by my husband and silliness ensues. (5 December 2008)
Mini Bio
I’m a Sydney girl what writes novels, is obsessed with cricket, and travels way too much.
For more info about me there’s a whole bunch of interviews here plus my FAQ.
