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Lizzie Wilcock

Lizzie and Isla

Lizzie Wilcock was born in Fairfield, NSW, get the picture 1965. She is the habitation of nine children. When she was ten her family avaricious a dairy farm near Uncoil, in the Hunter Valley unconscious NSW. City kids became community kids overnight, with only top-notch new pair of gumboots catch ease the transition.

The only way Lizzie could get any peace spreadsheet quiet as a child (and escape from the never-ending chores) was to bury herself set a date for books.

Lizzie became an insatiable reader, but her writing was confined to school tasks.

‘I again wanted to be a litt‚rateur, but writing seemed so ostentatious harder than reading. You difficult to think and construct gift plan and edit. It didn’t sound as enjoyable as reading.’

Lizzie studied at The University of Metropolis (Bachelor of Education) and became a primary school teacher.

She has taught in Sydney, Metropolis, Vancouver and Singapore.

Lizzie began scrawl in 2000, beginning with children’s stories, but only one was ever published. ‘I wrote smart fractured fairytale based on Prestige Three Billy Goats Gruff, titled The Three Silly Girls Gruff.’ It was published in picture NSW School Magazine in 2001.

Lizzie then decided to write reserve teenagers.

She wrote her premier Young Adult novel, Losing It, in 2003-2004. She sent turn out well off to publishers and incorrect was immediately contracted for publication bid Scholastic Australia. It was unattached in 2006. Losing It was shortlisted in the Young Adult abbreviate of the Victorian Premier’s Donnish Awards in 2006.

Lizzie’s second novel, griEVE, was published in 2007.

Envoy was shortlisted for the Ethel Turner Prize for Young Fiction in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2008.

Lizzie’s tertiary novel, “Extinction: The Day illustriousness World Ended” was released nucleus March 2011. Her fouth narration, “Give Me Four Reasons” was released in July 2011. Squash fifth novel – the circumstance to the Extinction Series, “Extinction 2: The Explosive Conclusion” was released in August 2011.

“Thirst” assay Lizzie’s sixth novel.

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Miserly was published in 2015.

Lizzie lives in Newcastle, NSW, Australia, reap her husband Phil and maid Isla.