Her first book "Rainstones" was written in a desperate attempt to make money to fix her car. She sent it to the publishers who sent it back and said it was the worst-written, badly spelt and grammatically-incorrect manuscript ever written.
She lives with her husband Bryan in the Araluen Valley in Australia. And has lots of pets. She has a black snake called Gladys, a wallaby called Fred and a wombat called Smudge.