Ros Fishman

Ros Fishman is an Australian author who lives in Victoria with her children, two elderly cats, and a half-trained dog. She grew up reading Enid Blyton, Franklin W. Dixon, C.S. Lewis, and Roald Dahl, and later graduated to Jeffrey Archer, Matthew Reilly, and Dan Brown. But her favourite author remains Dr Seuss. He is a constant reminder to her, to have fun with her writing.

A lifelong writer, she spent her childhood squirreled away in a corner scribbling her stories onto what ever paper she could find. Writing is the only thing Ros can see herself doing when she's 150 years old. (And, yes, she can see herself at 150 years, but only if she's writing!)

Ros loves finding a real world explanation for catalysts in her stories – why the Weightfields were transported to Irrilyn in Irrilyn. And how the veil between the worlds was originally weakened in her upcoming middle school novel Custodes Alterius Mundi: The Aegis Wreath.

"If I can find a believable reason for the why, the readers are more likely to believe it, too," she says.