Sara Creasy

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Sara Creasy
Born1968
England
OccupationWriter
NationalityAustralian, British
GenreScience fiction, romance
Website
www.saracreasy.com

Sara Creasy (born 1968) is an Australian author represented by Kristin Nelson, president of the Nelson Agency out of Denver, CO. She was born and raised in England, before her family moved to Australia when she was a teenager. Her debut novel, Song of Scarabaeus , was published by Harper Voyager in 2010.

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Personal life

After studying biology at University she graduated with a bachelor's degree in biology and after many odd-jobs found herself in the educational publishing industry as a text book editor and project editor. She also worked for Aurealis as a copy editor and associate editor. In 2005 she married American science fiction and fantasy author M.C. Planck and moved to Tucson, Arizona. After the publication of her first novel and the birth of her daughter, she moved back to Australia with her family. She now resides in Melbourne. [1]

Publication

Her first novel, Song of Scarabaeus , was published in 2010 by Harper Voyager [2] and earned her nominations for both the Philip K. Dick Award and the Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel. [3] The sequel, Children of Scarabaeus , was published in April 2011 [4] and was nominated for the Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel. [3] In 2019 she began publishing the ten-book Wynter Wild series, a contemporary family drama about a sibling rock band. [5]

Bibliography

Scarabaeus

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References

  1. "Home - Sara Creasy". Home - Sara Creasy. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  2. "Song of Scarabaeus - Sara Creasy - Paperback". HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  3. 1 2 https://aurealisawards.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/aurealis-1995-2014-complied-xlsx-sheet1-1.pdf
  4. "Children of Scarabaeus - Sara Creasy - Paperback". HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  5. https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B07Q55YTPQ/ref=dp_st_1092673253