Authors: J-L

Rochelle Jackson
Rochelle Jackson was born in Melbourne and grew up in a police family. She began her career in country Victoria and Sydney as a journalist in television and radio. Later she worked as a TV producer and investigative researcher for 'Today, Tonight', 'Australian Story', 'New Dimensions', 'Watchdog', SBS TV and radio news services and TVNZ's 'Sixty Minutes'. She specialises in crime and police stories. Currently she is based in Melbourne and is working as a freelance journalist.

Julietta Jameson
Julietta is a journalist and the author of the non-fiction work, Tibooburra and the legend of the Tree of Knowledge. In Her Mother's House is her first published work of fiction.

Judy Johnson
Judy Johnson is an award-winning writer with a special interest in bringing to life little known but fascinating aspects of Australia's history. Prizes for her historical narratives include the Banjo Paterson Award, which she won three years in a row, and the Val Vallis Award. She has been the recipient of three New York grants from the Literature Board of the Australian Council and is currently working on another historical novel.

Angela Kamper
Angela Kamper is a senior reporter with Sydney's Daily Telegraph newspaper. She has followed the story of the 'Bra Boys' and the killing of underworld figure Tony Hines from its very beginning and co-wrote My Brother's Keeper, with fellow reporter Charles Miranda, about the murder.

Louise Katz
Louise writes science fiction fantasy for young adults. Her novel, The Other Face of Janus, won the 2001 Aurealis Award for Best Novel - Young Adult.

Odyle Knight
Odyle Knight is an Australian woman who has lived in Bali for much of her life. As partner to a Balinese priest for almost ten years she has gained a great insight into the mystical practices and customs of this ancient culture, which remains a Hindu enclave in the largest Moslem country in the world. Ms. Knight has a BA in Psychology and History, and diplomas in Education and Counselling, and has worked as a Teacher and School Counsellor. Drawn to the metaphysical, she also holds a Diploma in Astrological Studies from the Royal College of Astrological Studies, London, and has given lectures and workshops on spiritual topics in many organizations around the world. She has written Bali Moon and a chapter in The Disinformation Guide to 21st Century Witchcraft edited by Fiona Horne, and is currently working on her next book, Bali Magic: Reflections of a reluctant psychic. You can contact by email: odyleknight@hotmail.com.

Cheryl Koenig
Cheryl was born and still resides in the southern suburbs of Sydney. She met her soul mate Robert whilst still in school and married at the age of just nineteen. Almost 30 years later she is still very happily married and has two treasured sons. Apart from volunteering much of her free time helping to improve government policy and service in the area of brain injury, she attributes her happiness to the simplicity of nurturing and nourishing her very special family. She also loves to read and write biographies about extraordinary people.

Toni Lamond
Toni Lamond is an entertainer who has starred in many TV shows and movies. Her autobiography, First Half, entered the Best Seller List at number 1 only eight days after its release. Visit Toni's website at tonilamond.com

Deborah Lee
Deborah Lee and her husband Cedric have fostered scores of children. In Mixed Blessings, published by Random House in 2005, Deb tells her story. She lives in Sydney with her husband, her three adopted children, and however many children she is currently fostering. Visit Deborah Lee's website at deblee.com.au

Sandra Lee
Sandra Lee is the author of three non-fiction books, Beyond Bad: The Life And Crimes Of Katherine Knight, Australia's Hannibal, The Promise: An Iraqi Mother's Desperate Flight To Freedom, both published by Random House in 2002 and 2003 respectively, and the best-seller, 18 Hours: The true story of an SAS war hero. 18 Hours is about trooper Jock Wallace's fight to survive against al Qaeda in Afghanistan and was published in 2006 by HarperCollins. All three of Sandra’s books have been sold into the UK and European markets. Beyond Bad was published in hardback in under the title, Kathy the Cannibal. A second version of 18 Hours will be published in the UK in April under the title Do Or Die. Sandra lives in Sydney with her husband and is currently a columnist for The Sunday Telegraph newspaper and special feature writer for Sunay magazine. She is available for public speaking and literary events. 

David Levell
David Levell is a writer, journalist and television producer. In 2004 he helped WW2 commando Brian Walpole complete his memoir My War, and was contributing writer/editor for Ron Stephenson's Victor Chang: Murder of a Hero (2005). His TV documentaries include Wizard Of Love (SBS-TV), about Puccini. David lives in Sydney with Josephine Pennicott and their daughter daisy. Visit David's website at www.davidlevell.com

Hillarie Lindsay
Hillarie has been writing professionally since 1964, with more than twenty books to her credit. She has twice won the Grenfell Henry Lawson Statuette for Prose. She was awarded the MBE for Services to Literature in 1974 and the Queen's Jubilee Medal in 1977.

John Suter Linton
John Suter Linton has been a journalist, researcher and writer for radio, television and the press media. He specialises in true crime. The Stranger You Know, dealt with the murder of nineteen year old Kim Barry in Wollongong in 1981. The book also investigated the claims of innocence made by the person committed for Kim's murder. Bound by Blood followed, looking into the police investigation, the lives of the victims and the circumstances surrounding the deaths of shopkeeper, David O'Hearn, former Lord Mayor, Frank Arkell, and Jack van Krevel, the father of convicted killer, Mark Valera. An Almost Perfect Murder is John Suter Linton's third true-crime novel; it will be published by ABC in July 2006.

John's interest in crime came from his father, who was a printer on the Sydney Morning Herald during the sixties and seventies, and rather than reading fairy tales to his young son, would recount details of gruesome crimes of the times, and share the behind-the-news stories and gossip. Is it any wonder he grew up to do the same, only to a larger audience?

Brenda Little
Brenda has 15 books to her name, including books on art, the consumer society, herbs, organic gardening and three ghost-written stories for survivors of the Holocaust. Dear Henry is her second novel and follows the best-selling Knowing Sophie.