Marie writes for adults as well as children and has been shortlisted for a number of fiction and non-fiction awards. She has had work on The Age best-sellers list and her most recent title, Zelda’s Big Adventure – a book about a chook who wants to be an astronaut – was a ‘Notable’ picture book in the CBCA Awards and was read by the wonderful Leigh Sales on Playschool. Her writing journey began in 1994 when she was handed a brochure for Holmesglen TAFE that listed the Diploma of Arts – Professional Writing and Editing. She decided then and there to throw in her corporate job and do the course. Fast forward 30 years and she is a full-time copywriter who, in her spare time, runs creative writing clinics, reviews children’s books and writes humorous speculative fiction. Her current work in progress is a humorous, feminist, crime space opera.
Specialises in:
- Picture book texts
- YA speculative fiction
- Narrative non-fiction