THE AUTHOR

  Brian Caswell was born in Wales in 1954, he began writing when he was five, but after a few moves around England, he came to Australia with his family when he was twelve. He became a teacher specialising in history, English, and creative writing. He is also a basketball coach. His first published book was Merryll of the stones and when Deucalion came along in 1995 it won the Childrens Peace Literature Award and the CBCA Book of the Year Awards 1996.

A personal letter from Brian Caswell  I got of the internet is below if you would like to read it:-

"I was born in Wales in 1954, but after a few moves around England, I came to Australia with my family when I was twelve. I’ve never been back, and although I plan to visit the ‘old country’ eventually, it will be as a visitor — I can’t feel that I am anything but an Aussie.

I began writing when I was five, and I’ve never stopped — but I never wrote to be published until I was thirty-five. My first novel, Meryll of the Stones, was published in 1989, and since then I’ve written eighteen books, including A Cage of Butterflies, Asturias, The Boundary Park Trilogy, Deucalion, Dreamslip and recently Relax Max! (for younger readers) …

If you write because you love doing it (and you’d still write if they paid you or not), actually making a living out of it feels like a bit of a con — like you’re being paid for being on a permanent holiday. Don’t get me wrong, I do put in long hours. It’s just that it doesn’t feel like work. And that’s especially true for my new series Alien Zones.

I’ve had more fun writing them than anything that I have ever written. They’re humorous sci-fi, and they allow me to be as off-the-wall as I want, because when you have every planet and every time in all the known universes to play with, it gives you a lot of possibilities. The Zone Commandos are a group of misfits who just happen to make a great team, and they’re great characters to spend so much time with — which for a writer is an important issue."

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