Justine is a writer who lives in Sydney, Australia.
He just finished a young adult (YA) fantasy trilogy, in which the
door of a house in Sydney opens onto a street in New York City (beats
long-haul flights). The first volume, Magic or Madness, was published
in March 2005 by Penguin/Razorbill and by Penguin Australia in Sep
2005. It has been sold to Taiwan, France, Thailand and Germany.
Magic or Madness has been shortlisted for an Aurealis Award for best Australian
YA book of the year and was a best book of the year selection for School
Library Journal, Tayshas (the Young Adult Round Table of the Texas Library
Association), the Australian children's literature magazine, Magpies,
as well as making the ALA (American Library Association) 2005 Best Books
for Young Adults list and Locus Recommended Reading for 2005.
The sequel, Magic Lessons, will be out in March 2006 and has previously
sold in France and Germany. The as-yet-untitled third and final book
appears on March 2007.My first book, a non-fiction tome, The Battle
of The Sexes in Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press, 2002) was
nominated for the Peter McNamara Convenors' Award, the William J. Atheling
Award and the Hugo for Best Related Book. It was scheduled by Locus
as one of the 15 Top SF and Fantasy Anthologies, Collections, Non fiction
books, and Art books of 2002 and was an editor's pick at Fantastic Metropolis.
He was born and raised in Sydney, Australia, punctuated by sojourns
to other parts of Australia with my anthropologist parents and younger
sister, including two small Aboriginal settlements in the Northern Territory.
The world has always seemed a strange and fascinating place to me. |
