CHARLOTTE
CALDER
Charlotte Calder was
born in Adelaide, and grew up in the Adelaide Hills and Darwin,
the setting for her first novel, Settling Storms.
In past lives she has worked, among other things, as a photographer
and an actor. (The creative process used in acting is very similar
to that used in writing fiction – namely getting into an
exact moment, and also into the skin of a character.) She lives
with her husband and the youngest of their three children near
Orange in the Central West of NSW, where they are among the few
residents of their neighbourhood who don't have a vineyard!
Charlotte's subsequent YA novels include Cupid Painted
Blind,
a blend of teen romance, the internet and Shakerspeare’s
A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Surviving Amber. The latter deals
with the clash of culture and personalities when two wildly different
cousins are forced to live together, and is set on Kangaroo Island,
where she spent nearly every summer holiday for the first thirty
five years of her life.
   
Her latest novel is Paper Alice, published
in 2008. First year uni student Alice McBean opens the newspaper
to find a photo
of herself – except it isn't her. Just who and where is
this double? More importantly, if she does find her mysterious
doppelganger, will Alice learn more than she is willing to know?
Charlotte's first picture book, Stuck! (illustrated
by Mark Jackson), is to be published in September 2009.
Charlotte enjoys giving talks and workshops to children of
all ages, and also to adults.
More information, teachers notes, etc can be obtained from
her website at www.charlottecalder.com,
and from the Pan Macmillan website
SOME REVIEWS:
Agnes Nieuwenhuizen: A beautifully assured, engaging first
novel – delightful
and absorbing. (Settling Storms)
Magpies: Calder manages her cast of characters with a deft
hand and an eye for the vagaries of young people of the cusp
of adulthood. (Surviving Amber)
Reading Time: Calder
has, with a keen ear for contemporary teenage language, tapped
into the heartaches, embarrassments
and anxieties
of adolescent relationships ... a satisfying and fast-paced
read. (Cupid Painted Blind)
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