About Me
I grew up on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Throughout my childhood I loved to read and write stories, but after school took the sensible option of a 'real' job at the Commonwealth Bank instead of chasing my literary dreams. Fast forward a couple of years and I had a good job with great conditions, but no passion for what I was doing. A major restructure of the bank seemed like a great opportunity to go back to study.
I completed my BA at the University of QLD and a few years after graduating (after some overseas travel and another non-literary job in local government) I started a business assisting people to write their life stories. While I loved it and it fulfilled my dream of writing for a living, I still couldn't quell my desire to write creatively as well and revisited a manuscript of a novel I had begun a few years before.
I have always loved the beach and in my childhood I visited a couple of old timber, Queenslander holiday houses. I have always remembered the ambience of these classic old houses (unfortunately there aren't too many of them left) and really wanted to write a story based on such a house. That story was The Beach House which was published in 2011.
My second novel Room 46 was published in 2015. My third novel, Third Offence was published in 2017.
I grew up on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Throughout my childhood I loved to read and write stories, but after school took the sensible option of a 'real' job at the Commonwealth Bank instead of chasing my literary dreams. Fast forward a couple of years and I had a good job with great conditions, but no passion for what I was doing. A major restructure of the bank seemed like a great opportunity to go back to study.
I completed my BA at the University of QLD and a few years after graduating (after some overseas travel and another non-literary job in local government) I started a business assisting people to write their life stories. While I loved it and it fulfilled my dream of writing for a living, I still couldn't quell my desire to write creatively as well and revisited a manuscript of a novel I had begun a few years before.
I have always loved the beach and in my childhood I visited a couple of old timber, Queenslander holiday houses. I have always remembered the ambience of these classic old houses (unfortunately there aren't too many of them left) and really wanted to write a story based on such a house. That story was The Beach House which was published in 2011.
My second novel Room 46 was published in 2015. My third novel, Third Offence was published in 2017.
