The Guardians of St Giles are here
November 2024
"I have spent a great deal of my career working with disadvantaged youth, and children with disabilities. I have found there are very few literary heroes these children can relate to. Most do not look, act, or even think like them. My quest, through my stories, is to create heroes these wonderfully special children can see inside themselves. My heroes are flawed, some are broken, and all have limitations they must overcome to triumph." Jeffery E Doherty.
"If Coraline teamed up with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you would get Olivia Stone."
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WORDSA child asked Neil Gaiman,
'I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I mad?' Neil replied, 'Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.' I truly believe this. It is how I try to live and the underlying message in a lot of my writing. 'Believe in the magic and keep your inner child alive!' |
Download the first seven chapters of Book 1 and 2 of the Guardian's of St. Giles series.
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Writing ProjectsOlivia Stone and the Call of the Carnival
The third book in my Guardians of St.Giles series is finally complete and will be released on the 7th of March 2022. In each book in the series, I have upped the stakes for Olivia and Yip, and this is no exception. Not only do they encounter some seriously creepy clowns, they come face to face with the greatest monster of them all. 
Grayce McAbe - A Girl Who Talks To Ghosts
My latest piece of short fiction is The Clockwork Mouse, a Victorian ghost story with a subtle steampunk air, written for the Creative Kids Tales Collection Volume 2.
There are some marvellous stories in this collection which made the note from the editor during the revision process so much more special. Two simple words at the end of the email – “Editor’s Choice.” Grayce lives in a clockmakers shop with her grandfather and the ghost of her brother Perry. In the story, she discovers a little magic and solves the mystery of her brother’s death. Not bad for 1000 words. I think I’d like to explore Grayce’s character and give her some more words on the page. Perhaps a chapter book or chapter book series? 
Olivia Stone and the Trouble with Trixies'
"I don't like spiders...they give me the shivers." Olivia shudders to prove her point. Dreamweavers feed on the dread and despair of their victims. To help Yip stop their nightmarish infestation of the city, Olivia has to prowl dark streets, brave the boy's toilet, and break into the Old Haven Asylum. She must face her greatest fear, the mother of all spiders, if she has any hope of saving her friend, Emmett. 
'Olivia Stone and the Trouble with Trixies' Can a broken young girl helps a guilt-ridden grotesque to stop the monsters. Despite crippling injuries from a falling grotesque statue, twelve year old Olivia Stone finds herself on the front lines in the battle between Good and Evil. Also available at other audio book retailers.
Paper Magic
My first book, 'Paper Magic' was released by IFWG Publishing Australia in late 2013.
It is an adaptation of my children's story, 'Marina Mack and the Magic Paper' which was shortlisted for the Charlotte Duncan Award for Children's Literature in 2009. |
PICTURES
'Artists and illustrators are different creatures. Illustrators tell a story with their art.'Before I became an illustrator, much of my artistic works featured children and animals and I held a successful art exhibition 'Bless the Beasts and the Children' Now that I work as an illustrator I find that I still paint children and animals, with the odd monster thrown in for good measure. I have illustrated
My favourite medium to work in for illustrating is watercolour, but I also use pen and ink, acrylics, oils, pastels, coloured pencils and digital art, using a stylus and graphics tablet to paint. Illustration for poem 'Thunderhead the Giant'
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