I grew up in the Sydney western suburb of Carlingford and went to school at a private Catholic Ladies College in Parramatta – I'm proud to say they never did succeed in transforming me into a lady or a Catholic. I daydreamed my way through to fourth form, whereby I left school with a D in English. All I was interested in at this time was music, boys, daydreaming and storytelling. My teachers had drummed it through my head that daydreaming was never going to get me anywhere, so I got a job in a retail music store and pursued the love of music – one of life's funny little sidetracks.

The music industry was where I met my husband David, who now designs all the jackets for my books. David was the lighting director for 'the Radiators' at the time – so you might understand that this part of my life is a bit of a blur. I do get a distinct warm fuzzy feeling, however, when I recall the great friends who made this the most fun-filled part of my life. Many years later, David and myself teamed up to design and build the stage set for the Wendy Matthews 'Tour de Lily' Tour.

When I got over all the rock'n'roll, partying and other self indulgent activities, I found myself at a bit of a loss. I was still daydreaming as much as I ever did, and at the age of twenty-five I considered that I should perhaps think about giving my little fantasies a rest and get a life instead. My best friend, Sue, the willing outlet for my stories at the time, decided she was going to England for six months. I nearly went nuts with no one to tell my tales to. Sue rang me from Paris to suggest I try writing a story and sending it to her, as she was hanging out for a fix of fantasy as well. The story was truly terrible, and I never finished it, but it got me over my big fat D in English – that was the beginning of my writing career. So, back on track now, I started writing a novel. Another friend of mine, who was working in the film industry, read this manuscript and suggested I turn it into a film script.

I entered the film industry when a young producer read my first script Everything We Know, and was impressed enough to ask if I would be interested in helping him run a couple of film studios he was managing at the time. This job didn't involve much creative writing, but as I was unemployed at the time, I figured 'why not'? From here I got access to all aspects of film, commercial, corporate video and TV production. This gave me a solid knowledge of how the industry worked and what was required to get a high budget feature film off the ground in Oz – something I am still striving to do today. The film industry taught me one very important lesson: that if I wanted to make a name for myself writing for films, it was going to take many years of selling, meetings, traveling – in short, a long and arduous task. Thus, I decided to simplify, and returned to writing manuscripts. I have never really left the film industry or the music industry, both have paid an integral part in my life and will continue to do so.

My third film script, Beyond the Realm of Dreams, has been recently been optioned by a production company, and is going through the development process at present. Although I loved writing film scripts the frustration of waiting for funding turned my attention back to manuscripts. The second manuscript I wrote became my first published book The Ancient Future: the Dark Age.

First published in October 1996, The Ancient Future was reprinted three times in 1997 and three times in 1998. The second book of the trilogy An Echo in Time – Atlantis was released in October 1997 and was reprinted three times in 1998. Masters of Reality – the Gathering, the final book of the trilogy, was released in October 1998 and reached number six on Dymocks best seller list in its second week of release. My forth book The Alchemist's Key was released in June 1999.

I don't tell stories anymore, at the age of twenty-five that talent slowly transposed into the ability to write. I never did any courses to learn about story structure etc., I merely pursued my interest in unexplained phenomenon, history, ancient mythology and time/space, and combined this research with my overactive imagination to carve a writing career for myself. So, for all those budding young writers out there who have a tale or two to tell, who feel they may not have what it takes to get published, I say: write because you love it, and follow your dreams until the end, because if a dyslexic, who can't spell and never did very well in English can become a published author, anything is possible.