Paulene Turner

Paulene Turner is the author of The Time Travel Chronicles, a 6-book YA time travel series. It took her over 10 years to complete the six books, of almost 600,000 words, covering five separate historical periods.

Her short stories have appeared in anthologies and magazines in the US, UK and Australia. She also writes and directs short plays for the Short and Sweet play festival in Sydney.

A former journalist in the UK and Australia, she now lives in Sydney.

She loves being a writer, called upon to imagine other worlds so completely. Staring through the kitchen window, she sees not the garden in need of weeding, the neighbour's bulging bins, but instead pictures medieval tournaments, pirates lashed to the rigging on stormy seas, a sun setting behind an alien skyline.

And the best part, while she works, she listens to the soft snoring of her two pugs--Holmes and Watson--sleeping in a basket beside her.