As a child, I read everything I could find across many different genre and I became an avid writer of poems and stories and creator of comics. I dreamed of publication and had stories, poems and articles printed in magazines.
     My first brief professional publishing success was a solitary short poem published in a BHP/Fellowship of Australian Writers anthology. However, a chance encounter with a friend in the book industry led to my first real success with Pan Macmillan Australia who published the Andrakis fantasy trilogy in 1992/3 – Guardians, Kingmaker and Dragonlords.
     Since 1992, I have had fantasy novels published with HarperCollins Australia – the Ashuak Chronicles and the Dreaming in Amber series – and young adult novels published with HarperCollins, Wakefield Press and online self-publications, and short stories published in various magazines.
The Last Wizard (1995) and Blood (2002) were finalists in the Aurealis Best Fantasy Novel award and the teenage novel, Caught in the Headlights, was a Notable Book for Older Readers in the 2003 Children’s Book Council awards and listed on several Premier’s Reading Lists.
I co-wrote and delivered courses for the Professional Writing Unit at Adelaide Institute of TAFE, offered a variety of writing workshops through Writers SA, Flinders University and various schools, and ghost-edited several works for other authors. I was a guest author at the South Australian Writers’ Week in 2000, Guest of Honour at SwanCon 2003, and a regular guest speaking about books on ABC radio’s Peter Goer’s Evenings and Matt and Dave’s Mornings.
     In 2023, I left the education field to pursue full time writing and currently have multiple new projects in development. I also mentor writers with Spectrum Writing Inc, Writers SA and Millswood Books.