Born and raised in Wellington, New Zealand, Lisa Emanuel studied law and political science in Wellington, Jerusalem and Sydney. She has worked as a political staffer, a judge’s associate and in human rights law and marketing and communications. She now works as a competition lawyer and is writing her second novel. She lives in Sydney, …
E.J. Dawson began her writing career by beginning to self-publish a 21 book fantasy series The Last Prophesy beginning in 2016. In the meantime she has found the time to create a gothic noir novel. Believing in more than one path to a career in publishing, Ejay pursues self-publishing alongside querying traditional publishers with multiple …
Livia Day is the crime-writing alter ego of award winning science fiction and fantasy author Dr Tansy Rayner Roberts. Her café-and-cozy-crime Tabitha Darling novels are set around Hobart and Southern Tasmania. Cafe La Femme seriesA cozy mystery series featuring cafe owner Tabitha Darling set in HobartA Trifle Dead (2013)Drowned Vanilla (2014)The Blackmail Blend [novella]Keep Calm …
Zoe Deleuil is a writer from Perth, Western Australia, now living in Berlin, Germany with her family. Her fiction, essays and feature articles have been anthologised and published in journals and other places, including Westerly, Cordite, Overland, The Big Issue and the Newcastle Short Story Award anthology. Author Website Stand AloneThe Night Village (2021)
Caroline de Costa is an obstetrician and gynaecologist and professor at James Cook University in Cairns. She is the author of three novels in the Detective Cass Diamond series, Missing Pieces and Blood Sisters teaming with Double Madness, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Sisters-in-Crime Davitt Awards. She has also published a prequel to the series, Hidden Lives, with Boolarong Press. Caroline …
Brett Adams was raised in country Western Australia and lives in Perth. He has a PhD in Computer Science that taught him to love puzzles, and a family who taught him to love stories (or vice versa). He writes fiction across a range of genres. Stand AloneDark Matter (2012)Strawman Made Steel (2013)Blood & Ink (2022)
Ruth Mary McIver is a Dublin-born, Melbourne-based crime writer who grew up in Perth, Western Australia and the US. She is represented by The Story Factory. Ruth received her Ph.D. in 2019 from Curtin University.Ruth’s first (unpublished) novel, Nothing Gold, was runner up in the inaugural Banjo Awards, with Harper Collins (2018) and was selected …
Jacqueline ‘Rock’ Bublitz is a writer, feminist, and arachnophobe, who lives between Melbourne, Australia and her hometown on the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island. Author Website Stand AloneBefore You Knew My Name (2021)Leave the Girls Behind (2024)
Born in Melbourne and brought up in Sydney, Alison Booth spent over two decades studying, living and working in the UK before returning to Australia. Her fiction awards include a Varuna Longlines Fellowship from the Eleanor Dark Foundation and the Highly Commended Award in the 2011 ACT Book of the Year Award. Alison is also …
B.M. Allsopp grew up in suburban Sydney and picked up an Arts degree and a thirst for exotic adventure. She signed up to work as a primary school teacher in Papua New Guinea (PNG) for two years which ended up lasting a decade. She later taught English at the University of PNG before returning to …