B ED and MA from Sydney Uni, Ph D in Special Education from Wollongong Uni. Worked with behaviourally disturbed kids. Before that with reluctant readers and kids not greatly endowed with intellectual excellence. Always strived to make their school experiences meaningful. My Christian beliefs and my family keep me grounded and focussed about what is important. My husband likes to fish so when he's out in the boat I get to write. We also play golf frequently. We have five funtastic grandchildren and just relish time with them. In between, we do a great deal of travelling. Ended my teaching career with six years of freelance journalism. This was exciting and fun and I contributed regularly to four travel magazines (in my comfort zone) and one pottery magazine (which was definitely outside said zone). Then I started writing books. My first four books (the History's a Mystery series) are designed specifically for reluctant readers, especially boys, aged 8-12 years. I knew that good readers and girls would probably read them anyway. All four have just undergone an updated edit and are ready to be published again. I write mostly historical fiction for adults now. My first two books, A Voice to be Heard and Cry to the Wind follow the lives of twin girls, Joey and Maddy, as they leave Bedford in England and forge a new life in Melbourne during its early years and the Victorian gold rush. The Weif tells of brother and sister Will and Lizzie Darling, transported for crimes from Ireland to Australia.  I have also written a contemporary drama about a family living in a caravan park in the Illawarra on NSW's south coast.