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Susie Elelman
TV & radio broadcaster Susie Elelman is now an author. Her first book Half My Size – The Thinking Person’s Diet – published by New Holland – is a best seller and Susie was voted Most Dynamic Author for 2006.
 
Bert Newton describes Susie as "the most versatile, informed and professional person in Australian media today". Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Whoopi Goldberg, Audrey Hepburn, Kylie Minogue and George Clooney are just some of the celebrities she has interviewed. Highlights of her media career include over eight years as a presenter/reporter on ‘Good Morning Australia’. She was often seen presenting the weather on Network Ten's ‘Live at Five News’, hosting Clive Robertson's ‘Newsworld’, reporting on ‘Hinch’, and regularly going head to head with Stan Zemanek on ‘Beauty and the Beast’. Her first foray into radio was with the ABC …since then she's co-hosted breakfast and drive on WS FM, and afternoons on Radio 2…and most recently was once again part of the talkback radio team on Sydney's 2GB over Summer.
 
Susie's also written weekly for the Sunday Telegraph, completed a series of motivational articles on self-esteem for Woman’s Day, she was a weekly contributor to WHO magazine’s Style Council, a regular columnist for the Queensland Tourism newspaper Coastline and Image Magazine.
 
Susie has spent 5 years regularly hosting fashion, health & beauty and lifestyle shows on TVSN, as a sought-after emcee and speaker and corporate communicator, and working on her second book. For more details about Susie’s book Half My Size & her career, visit susieelelman.com.

Karen Fischer
Karen Fischer began writing and illustrating her home-made books when she was only twelve years old. Now in her thirties she has published her first book The Healthy Skin Diet (Exisle Publishing). Karen is a qualified nutritionist who writes health articles for various Australian publications and in her former life she was a successful model and television presenter.

Born in New Guinea and raised in Darwin and the Gold Coast, Karen now lives in Sydney with her partner and two children. Karen’s eldest child suffered from eczema as a baby and she was the inspiration for Karen’s extensive research into eczema and other skin disorders featured in The Healthy Skin Diet. Karen’s website is healthbeforebeauty.com

Roland Fishman

Isla Fisher

John Fletcher
John has eight novels currently in print - three under the name John Fletcher and five under the name JH Fletcher. The Tiger and the Stone, the first in a series of fantasy books under the name of Fletcher Anthony, was published in April. View from the Beach, first published in 1999 is currently in its fifth printing.

Olga Geddes
German-born Olga is a teacher of dance and drama. Her life as a spirited young women living in war-torn Nazi Germany is recounted in her inspirational autobiography, I Kept on Dancing.

Evan Green
Evan is the author of many best-selling non-fiction works and novels such as Alice to Nowhere, Adam's Empire, Dust and Glory, Kalinda, Bet Your life, On Borrowed Time, and his final novel, Clancy's Crossing. Read Selwa's special tribute to the late Evan Green.

Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall is the author of two psychological thrillers, The Walker (Hodder Headline 2004), chosen as a Women's Weekly Great Read, and The Visitor (Hachette Livre 2005). The Calling is due for release in July this year. The gripping style of her books has led to Jane's being touted as Australia's answer to Elizabeth George. She is also the author of two books on theatre and performance, and has made radio programs for the ABC Science Show. Jane is a member of the Writing and Society group at the University of Western Sydney.

Maggie Groff
Maggie Groff worked as a community nurse before giving up work to care for her family and pursue her dream to write. Her first book Mothers Behaving Badly was published by Random House in 1999 and became a national bestseller. Extracts were published worldwide by Readers Digest, and in 2000 the ABC produced an audio tape of the book. Maggie's second book Hoax Cuisine was published in 2001 by Simon & Schuster. The book led to a regular column, also titled 'Hoax Cuisine', in the Sunday Life Magazine, distributed through The Sun-Herald Sunday and The Sunday Age.