Authors

ABOUT OUR AUTHORS

Over the years around forty new authors were introduced to Queensland readers in CrimeWriters Queensland anthologies. Here are updates about some of our published authors:

IAN CALLINAN

Ian Callinan is a former High Court Judge and a recipient of the nations' highest civil honour (Companion of the Order of Australia) 'for service to the judiciary and the practice of law, to the arts and to the community'.

Besides being a successful and prolific novelist and playwright (six novels published by Central Queensland University Press and several popular plays produced in Brisbane theatres) Ian has written many reviews, articles and short stories and is a foundation member of CrimeWriters Queensland. One of his greatest interests over many years has been art, and he is a member of the boards of several high-profile art galleries.

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NANCY COX-MILLNER

Published in the crime genre Nancy participated in the Summer Programme, a Brisbane City Council Library programme, conducted writing workshops, participated in panel discussions and was President of FAWQ for two years. Nancy has coordinated the Writers of Seville at Holland Park Library for many years and was instrumental in the creation of the group's first anthology Ripples and Reflections published by Boolarong Press. Today she has turned her talents to directing plays.

Nancy has stories in C.W.Q anthologies: Crime and Tide and Bad to The Bones.

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BREANDA CROSS

A long time writer with CrimeWriters Queensland, Breanda has had many short crime stories published here and overseas. Through her fascination with the Sydney unsolved Shark Arm Murder of 1935 she developed a growing interest in social history and this is a component of her first crime novel, Shark Arm Unhooked? published by Zeus in 2005.

Shark Arm Unhooked? had a very entertaining 2006 launch by Brisbane Deputy Lord Mayor David Hinchcliffe on Thursday March 30th at Avid Reader, Boundary Street, West End. 3846 3422.

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MARGARET DAKIN

Margaret has had enough publishing success to encourage her to continue writing short stories and add play-writing to her repertoire.

She recently produced the play A Mid-Life Crisis, a successful production that was an entertaining experience for everyone concerned - especially Margaret. A Mid-Life Crisis was a comedy described as an insightful, if not black, look at married life.

Margaret is currently working on another play, Presumed Guilty, a character driven drama about real life Ellen Thomson, the only woman legally hanged in Queensland.

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TRACEY-ANNE FORBES

Tracey-Anne Forbes (aka Tracey Dunn) had her first story published when she was fourteen, and since has had poetry and short stories printed in a number of Australian magazines and journals. Her collection of stories, Crushed Sugar, was published in 2007 by Ginninderra Press. Although born in Brisbane, she has lived in many areas of Queensland as well as Scotland, England and France. She has an Arts Degree in English Literature and French Language, a Diploma of Education, and a Masters Degree in Creative Writing. She works part-time at a Brisbane TAFE college, teaching Senior English, Language & Learning and Literature. She has written four novels and is working on a fifth, as well as a volume of poetry. Find out more at her website: Tracey-Anne Forbes

PAUL GARRETY

Signing the contract for his first two book deal.

Writing is the most fun you can have sitting down...th is is Paul's starting point for any new project. Publication (for him) is and must be a by-product of that.

So far it's worked with a number of his short stories (in both crime and speculative fiction genres) being accepted in five anthologies and others winning prizes in both international and Australian short story competitions.

In 2008 Paul also won a twelve month Fellowship through "Olvar Wood" (writers retreat run by Nike Bourke ad Inga Simpson) to develop "Mine The Darkness" a cross genre novel of crime and the supernatural.

Paul recently signed a two book contract with Harper Collins Voyager for his urban fantasy novels, "The Seventh Wave" (due out March 2011) and "Legend of the Emerald Tablets" (due out Sep 2011).

Paul is also a yoga teacher and is studying to be a Yoga Therapy practitioner.

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CORAL HARTLEY

Coral is now a full-time writer, assessor, line editor and continuing publishing editor/illustrator of a popular quarterly magazine The Write Angle. (See entry in AWM 2009/2010.)

Coral charges moderate rates for assessments of manuscripts, short stories, fiction or non-fiction. < chspoton@optusnet.com.au>

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ELLI HOUSDEN

Elli Housden loves the written word in all forms, except romantic fiction and racing guides. She has co edited an anthology entitled A Stack of Stories for Australian secondary school students, and has published a text book for senior English students. Her third textbook, Five Senses, an anthology of short stories for secondary students was published in mid 2009. Elli has written nine of the fifteen stories in this anthology.

At present, Elli is working on her fourth textbook, A Writing Guide for Senior Students, which will be released in 2010. Elli writes short stories, articles and poetry, many of which have either won prizes or been published in various journals and newspapers and in her spare time, she's turning her flash fiction crime story, See Monsters, into a novel. Elli also reviews books for the Saturday Courier Mail.

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ANNE INFANTE

Anne is a crime novelist with 6 novels published, 5 of those by the prestigious Collins Crime Club. Her short stories have been published by CrimeWriters Queensland, Woman's Day and the Australian Women's Weekly. She presents talks and workshops on every aspect of writing.

She keeps busy as a writer and in her alternative life as a singer/songwriter. Between February and May 2009 she published her first online novel China Wind - go to www.anneinfante.com - click 'Online Books'.

In 2009 Anne completed the first draft of Crow Minder, the second of a proposed trilogy set in convict Brisbane during Captain Logan's tenure as Commandant. The fascinating research brought to light a quantity of previously unknown information about Logan's sister-in-law, the mysterious 'Miss O'Beirne' of the settlement's journals, and his Irish wife's background, all of which is now on file at the John Oxley Library - or Anne is happy to send it to anyone interested.

She also finished a new Micky Douglas novel (the original series was published by Collins Crime Club) and plans to record a new CD of her folk songs in 2010.

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CHERYL JORGENSEN

Though now contemplating another crime fiction for which in the past she has won several prizes and credits, Cheryl Jorgensen has recently written two nonfiction crime novels about the institutional abuse of Australia's "forgotten children", Al "Crow" Fletcher ( The 'brook republished as Brutal by New Holland Publishers) and Ray "Poss" Ide ( The Taint published by Boolarong Press.) In 2009 Jorgensen graduated with a Master of Philosophy for Creative Writing from the University of Queensland where she also tutored Creative Writing. She intends to study at UQ in 2010 for a PhD in Literature while working freelance as a book reviewer. She regularly broadcasts her book segment on Sunday nights at 8.00pm and writes reviews for The Courier-Mail.

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F.N. (CHIP) KARMATZ

Former journalist and university professor, F N Karmatz, PhD, writes fictional stories about real-life situations, based on his computer know-how and bird-caring experience. These are in two genre: cyber-crime and bird stories for children. His stories have been published over the last two decades in anthologies and periodicals. A sample of his stories can be read on the Carindale Writers' Website

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JOY LOGGIE

Joy has enjoyed a life-long love affair with reading and writing and has a taste for murder and mayhem with a light touch. She has won short story awards and has had short fiction and articles published in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas.

Joy is currently working on three crime/thriller/speculative fiction novels set in perfect but perilous Queensland and has completed a collection of 'factional' short stories about three resilient children growing up in an inner south-east London suburb during the dangerous years of World War Two.

PAT NOAD

Pat Noad is writing a series: the Annie Bryce mysteries, based in Queensland, are light-hearted crime with an historical twist. In 2009 her book Intrigue in Paradise was published by Zeus Publications; this is the sequel to the first two novels in the series, Loose Ends and Rockhound. After several edits, the mss of her fourth book Destination Tribulation made it to the publisher and in August she headed - west - far west on the hunt for a plot for number five. In 2009 she gave guest talks at service groups, writing groups and libraries, and participated in presenting four workshops on 'Cooking Up Crime' for the Moreton Shire libraries. She also adjudicated the Society of Women Writers' short story and article competition for the second time.

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ADRIENNE ROSS

Even though she claims to have enough editor rejections to fill a Singapore-bound container ship no rejection letters have clogged her hard-drive and Adrienne continues to pen fiction and non-fiction in a variety of genres from Crime to Romance, win the occasional literary prize, and be published (often under an alias) -- she blames Crime Writers Queensland for encouraging her wild literary ride.

Watch this space for some breaking big publication news.

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GARRETT RUSSELL