She is now a technical writer as well as a creative one. She lives in Sydney with her partner and their two sons. She is currently working on further short stories. On writing I write because it's my way of making sense of the world. I've always loved reading, both to escape from real life and to make life more real, and I like doing both in my writing, too, writing straight realistic and fantasy stories.
Inspiration is pretty much everywhere.
I get it from reading both good and bad writing, from watching and listening to people, from landscapes and cityscapes, from wildlife documentaries and building sites and classrooms and music. My problem is not finding ideas but finding time to pin a few of them down to a page. I write about children and young adults because I'm interested in what it's like to piece together the world, to make connections and realise things for the first time. And there's a lot more room for adventure in children's and teenagers' lives, before they make the decisions that will set them on their path in adulthood. That was a lot of fun and a lot of hard work, spending every waking hour writing, reading other people's stories and discussing what worked and what didn't work.