Sydney Bauer has worked as a journalist, securing a cadetship that enabled her to work as a crime, legal and courts reporter. She later moved to television where she worked at an executive level. As Director of Programming for a major Australian network, Sydney was able to indulge a personal passion for US dramas such …
Lenny Bartulin was born in Hobart in 1969 and lives in Sydney. He has previously published poetry in Heat and Meanjin. His first novel A Deadly Business was a wonderful debut that sparked a new voice in the Australian scene and has followed it up with The Black Russian and then De Luxe. Jack Susko …
Jock Blair has clocked up more than 40 years experience as a writer, producer, and script editor on TV shows such as Bluey and The Sullivans, and films such as Playing Beatie Bow. He worked as a writer on the Crawford Productions stable of police shows which included Homicide and Matlock Police. Blair was Head …
TONY BLACK was born in Newcastle, NSW to Scottish parents in 1972. He is an award-winning journalist writing mostly in the UK National Newspapers. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of publications on the internet and in print. Author Website Gus Dury seriesDown and out former journalist and husband turned investigator in Edinburgh, …
Stuart Black was born in Sydney and attended school in Sydney and London. During his teens he developed a taste for playing and writing music but in his twenties realised that passion alone wasn’t going to pay the bills. So, after graduating from university, he started working for a large media company. A few years …
Carmel Bird was born in Launceston, Tasmania, was educated at the University of Tasmania and lived for a period in Europe and the USA before settling in Melbourne. Bird’s fiction blends real and surreal, mundane and macabre with inventive irony. A witty writer with a wide but always highly original tonal range, Bird raises what …
Tony Berry has worked as a journalist in the UK and Australia working at a range of publications from local weekly newspapers to major metropolitan dailies such as the Sunday Herald, the Sun and the Herald Sun before he turned his hand to novel writing. Done Deal was short listed for the 2007 NSW Genre …
Travis Berketa was born in Melbourne in 1976. At high school he enjoyed writing and drawing, which lead him to focus on comics rather than his school work. He is currently a primary teacher at Stawell West Primary and writes during his spare time. He has begun a multitude of stories from various genres. Dark …
Diane Bell was a professor of anthropology and women’s studies at George Washington University until 2004. She is the author of Daughters of the Dreaming, Gendered Fields, Generations: Grandmothers, Mothers and Daughters, and Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A World That Is, Was, and Will Be. Stand AloneEvil (2005)
AA Bell writes mysteries that also cross over into the fantasy genre. Her debut thriller DIAMOND EYES was Highly Commended in the 2008 FAW Jim Hamilton Award, and both it and its sequel HINDSIGHT won the prestigious Norma K Hemming in consecutive years (2011 and 2012). She lives near Brisbane. Mira Chambers seriesThis is a …
