CHRISTINE
HARRIS
Christine lives in the Adelaide Hills, but
she writes anywhere she can find a pen or plug in her laptop
computer. The strangest place she has written a story is
in Pizza Hut on a serviette.
She
established her reputation as a writer with her first collection
of stories, Outer Face. In less than six months
it was reprinted three times. Christine has written almost
fifty books in a variety of styles; speculative fiction, horror,
thrillers, humour, historical fiction, plays and two picture
book texts.
Many
of her books have been nominated for, or won awards: Various
children’s choice, Christian Schools Award, Psychologists
for Peace Literature Awards, Aurealis for speculative fiction
and Children’s Book Council of Australia.
Her
latest books include:
The Spy
Girl series, published in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand,
UK, USA, Canada and will be out soon in Brazil and Japan. Cool
Bananas, a funny junior novel, and Outback:
The Diary of Jimmy Porter 1927-1928 in the My
Story series.
   
Christine
is often asked, ‘What inspires you?’
Her answer
is ‘Readers’. Like Georgie, who wrote, 'Your book
is infinity times excellent.'
A dynamic,
funny and very popular speaker, Christine regularly speaks in
schools and conferences, and conducts workshops. She and her
writer husband, David Harris, are
frequently invited to work as writers in residence and there
was excellent feedback from Christine's last visit to Sydney.
'Amazing,
cool and funny ... captivating and riveting ... she's just brilliant'
(Marrickville Library).
'Best guest
speaker we've had ... she was fabulous ... everybody was inspired
by her (Kegworth P.S.).
'During last
week I spoke with our Yr 4&5 students and they had excellent
recall about what you said about writing AND they remembered
all those funny stories that you shared. Thank you for your enthusiasm
and professional approach. It has certainly had a positive influence
on encouraging the children not only to read for enjoyment but
also to attempt to write interesting stories.'
(St
Martin's School, Brisbane)
More information
can be found at her web
site at www.christineharris.com and
www.audreyoftheoutback.com.au
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