Mike Crowl

Mike's newest fantasy in the Grimhilderness series is now available! Like the other three books in this series The Counterfeit Queen is a standalone story, although it reintroduces two of the characters from the first book, Grimhilda!, and sends them off on a new journey.

Apart from the standalone fantasies for children, Mike has written one non-fiction book for adults.

His first piece of fiction was written at school when he was very small, and surprised his family with its unexpected inventiveness!

Mike has written for various magazines and newspapers. He spent five years writing a weekly column, until he was summarily dismissed for penning something the editor didn't agree with. He has been a blogger on up to seven blogs at one time since 2006.

His first children's book, Grimhilda!, is based on a musical he co-wrote and produced in 2012. He is also a composer of songs and piano pieces, and has acted as musical director for a number of productions over the last twenty-five years.

Mike's non-fiction book, Diary of a Prostate Wimp, started life as a series of blog posts, and is based on his own experience.

He has been happily married for nearly fifty years, has five grown-up children and twelve grandchildren. Though born in Melbourne, Australia, he has lived most of his life in the vibrantly literary city of Dunedin, in New Zealand.