"Olivia Stone and the Curse of the Changeling"
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"I have spent a great deal of my career working with disadvantaged youth, and children with disability. 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 inspiring children can see inside themselves." Jeffery E Doherty.
Nominated in 2022 Forevability Awards
Nominated for BEST YA in 2024 Aurealis Awards
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Finalist in 2018 UK Wishing Shelf Award
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Nominated for BEST YA in 2022 Aurealis Awards
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"Coraline meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
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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!' |
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Writing ProjectsGrayce 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. So her story is being expanded into a Young Adult novel, "Clockwork Souls." 
'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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