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Interesting
Links...
Selwa Anthony
Author Management- Selwa Anthony, my agent,
represents some of the most popular writers in Australia.
Buzz
Words - Online children's book industry magazine for
authors, illustrators, librarians and lovers of children's and young adult
literature. Very informative with lots of reviews.
Fantastic
Queensland
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This is a fabulous site dedicated to
speculative fiction. This is also the team that administers the Aurealis
Awards.
YARA
Older Reader's Website
- I love this site! Teens and young adults submit their own reviews of the books they
have read. Their insights are fascinating and as an author, I feel they
are invaluable. Read and enjoy.
Fantasy 100 website
- This site lists some of the best fantasy anywhere ever. Take a look at some of
the old covers (ie. Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea) -
simply awesome.
Teenreads
- Another site featuring reviews and author bios.
Some favourite young adult
books...
The
Tomorrow Series & Ellie Chronicles
- John
Marsden is one of my favourite authors. His character Ellie is so real, that
reading her thoughts is like sitting down to a conversation with a close
friend. Exciting futuristic look at an invasion of Australia as seen
from the point of view of teenager Ellie. The Australian bush and
country life are brilliantly evoked alongside the more surreal concept of
invasion. Terrific.
Artemis
Fowl
- Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series is brilliant - very clever, very funny.
The Dark is Rising Sequence
- Susan Cooper's
The Dark is Rising Sequence has been around since I was in school. I borrowed
the books over and over again from
my school library. The cover of The Grey King, still gives me goosebumps
- I can feel the magic inside just by looking at it.
Currently reading...
Uglies Trilogy
- Just finished reading Uglies and now onto Pretties.
Scott Westerfeld's Uglies is the best series I've
started since John Marsden's Tomorrow books. Tally, a fifteen year
old girl lives in a city where everyone is turned pretty on their sixteenth
birthday regardless of choice. With a sinister undercurrent of
malevolent control and terrible secrets, this makes addictive reading.
Westerfeld published a fourth Uglies
book in late 2007, entitled Extras.
Sites of fellow Aussie writers of speculative fiction...
Richard
Harland
- Prolific author of Wolf Kingdom quartet.
Josephine
Pennicott - Author of
the Circle of Nine trilogy.
Louise Cusack
- Author of
the
Shadow Through Time fantasy
trilogy.
Jason Nahrung
- Author of supernatural thriller The Darkness Within.
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