Penn Adams

Penn Adams is a writer of science fiction and romance novels, as well as plays. Originally from London, Penn now lives in the paradise of northern New South Wales in Australia encircled by rainforests, beaches and the glorious Pacific Ocean.

Penn’s writing journey started working on a women’s monthly magazine and then a national newspaper – all in London. While working, she also completed an honours degree in geography at Birbeck College, London University.

In her 30s, the travel bug bit hard and she left to backpack around the world, fully intending to circumnavigate it. But, Australia with its wide-open skies, its smell of eucalyptus, its glorious coral reefs and singing-sand beaches proved too irresistible and she resigned herself to spending the rest of her life in heaven.

Her first book is The Malign Alliance, in which a proud alien queen devises a controversial plan to end the war with Earth. But her passion for an unsuitable man will threaten more than just the peace treaty. This is the first of a trilogy in the Malign Series. The second book, The Malign Legacy, was released in January 2021 and the third in the series, The Malign Paradox, came out in May 2022.

She has written two plays, Autumn Song (2014), a rich family drama about love, guilt and redemption, and Companion Planting (2018), a farcical comedy about the residents of a retirement village who take over the filming of a television reality show. Both plays were performed by theatre groups in northern New South Wales and garnered much acclaim.