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CRAIG CORMICK is an award-winning Canberra author and science journalist. He has published over a hundred short stories and ten books with small and mainstream publishers. His awards include a Queensland Premier’s Award in 2007 and the ACT Book of the Year Award in 1999. He is former chair of the ACT Writers Centre and has taught creative writing at university and high schools. He has been a Writer in Residence at the University Sains Malaysia, and in 2008, travelled to Antarctica on an Antarctic Arts Fellowship. He has a particular interest in filling in the often unspoken voices in historical fiction, which sometimes overlaps into writing about men’s perspectives on relationships.
JUDY NEUMANN’S short stories have appeared in numerous magazines, and she has recently completed her first novel. As a freelance business writer, she has written countless articles, press releases and advertisements. She is a member of Romance Writers of Australia and Romance Writers of America. A world traveller and expatriate American, she resides in Sydney with her beloved Aussie husband and pampered pooch.
DAPHNE CLAIR has written seventy-something novels for Harlequin/Silhouette/Mills & Boon and other publishers, including the historical novel, Gather the Wind (HarperCollins, NZ). As Daphne de Jong, her short stories have been published around the world, included in anthologies and in her collection Crossing the Bar (David Ling Publishing, NZ). Numerous poems and articles have appeared in New Zealand and overseas. A finalist in the Rita Awards (as Laurey Bright) from Romance Writers of America, Daphne’s literary awards include the Lilian Ida Smith Award for nonfiction, and New Zealand’s prestigious Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award. She teaches and coaches writers through the very successful, world-famous-in-New-Zealand Kara School of Writing. Her website is www.daphneclair.com.
AJ MACPHERSON is a freelance writer, journalist and editor. Her work has included feature writing for a national equestrian magazine, web copy, advertorials and executive editor duties. She has had short fiction published in a women’s magazine, and has collected awards for unpublished manuscripts. In 2009 her contemporary fantasy manuscript won Romance Writers of Australia’s Emerald Award. AJ is married, has two lovely stepdaughters, and lives in country New South Wales.
ALAN GOLD has written fifteen books, which have been published internationally and translated into Asian and European languages. He is an opinion columnist and book reviewer for The Australian and the literary magazine Good Reading. He is also a speechwriter for leading political figures. Alan has travelled throughout the world on behalf of a human rights NGO and addressed United Nations and other international forums on issues as diverse as social equity and new ways of fighting racism. He is published by Penguin in the United States and Canada, HarperCollins in the United Kingdom and Australasia, Edition Michel LaFon in France, Editorial ViaMagna in Spain and South America, and Arabesque Books in Russia. His most recent publication in the United States and Canada is The Pirate Queen. It is under option to be made into a movie, for which he has just finished writing the screenplay.
The author of forty-five published novels, ANNA JACOBS freely confesses to an addiction to storytelling. Fortunately she is not very domesticated, so has plenty of time to produce two to three novels a year, writing sagas for one publisher and modern fiction for another. She is fascinated by women’s history and by the challenges they face in today’s changing world. Her story is based on a novella originally commissioned by the Southern Forest Arts Group of Northcliffe (yes, it’s a real town) in Western Australia. Ex-servicemen, with their wives and children, were settled in groups, to help one another. Anna wrote The Group Settler’s Wife, a longer version of this story, then wrote Freedom’s Land, a full-length novel with the same background. Her books have been nominated several times for Australian Romantic Book of the Year, which she won in 2006, and she is among the top few most-borrowed authors of adult fiction in English libraries. She’s still in love with her own personal hero and they live half the year in Australia and half in England.
Table of Contents
COVER
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
KILLER SMILE
LOOKING FOR MR AVPR1A
NEVER TOO LATE
PACK RULES
SOME KIND OF HAPPINESS
MORE THAN ONE LIFE
WHY FIJI?
NIGHT OF THE SUPERHEROES
VIOLET’S GIFT
INTO THE LIGHT
MIDLIFE BLOOM
A MUCH-NEEDED WIFE
ABOUT THE AUTHORS