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Author
Profile
My name is Amanda Holohan
- that's me to the right. I'm
the author of
The Perry Brightfield Chronicles. I was born in Sydney,
Australia where I currently live with my husband, daughter and two slinky
Burmese cats.
I've been passionate about books since
I first
learnt to read, and wild about writing since I penned my first poem at age six
and realised that it was something I could actually do! Poetry,
comics, stories - I spent my childhood wrapped in my inner world, scribbling away whatever chance
I
got.
By the time I'd finished
university I'd decided that I didn't just want to write
about other people's adventures, I wanted to have some
of my own - that's when I put on my boots and went
roaming. I didn't really start writing
seriously again until I returned - although I did do a
lot of scribbling.
My education's pretty broad. I tend to collect skills like entomologists collect
bugs. I've got a BA from Macquarie University with a double major in mass communication and literature. I've studied creative writing at UTS,
photography and jewellery making in London, cocktail mixing, travel
consulting, office skills, belly dancing
and taught myself to create my own website.
I've worked
as a waitress, boutique manager, bookseller, hair washer, travel consultant, freelance
writer, editorial coordinator and contribute occasional book
reviews to The Sun-Herald. On the days that I'm not rapt in the world
of my next novel, I'm a casual subeditor
with a Sydney magazine.
My favourite things in the world are my
family, friends and of course, my writing.
I've finished the
third book in The Perry Brightfield Chronicles, which
completes the trilogy and The King's Fool has gone onto the
Premier's Reading Challenge again for 2009. I have spent the last year
working on a new, stand-alone Young Adult novel, supported by a
literature grant from the Australia Council for the Arts – a very big
honour indeed.
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