Emily lives in Australia and yes, back when she was a teenager her high school had its own herd of Kangaroos. She’s been to almost every continent (Africa being her weakness in continent-domination) and has the pretty photographs to prove it (though probably less professional then Madeline Cain…).

In 2010 Emily decided life wasn’t interesting enough and decided trying to write a novel in a month. Definitely not insane enough to try writing a fantasy novel, she chose to do a comedy based in Facebook. She created a Facebook event and threw her plot line to the winds, asking her assortment of friends to give her their best ideas, which included chameleons, umbrella’s called Laani, triplets, a transvestite dwarf book club and a group of disturbed university students. Emily sites November 2010 as the only month she could legitimately claim her hours on Facebook as “research”. She then went one step further with her creation and gave her characters their own Facebook pages, where they run amok and poke fun at their creator.

UNUSUAL TALENTS OR HOBBIES:

She’s one of those insane people who gets excited at the thought of sky diving (though if you try to attach her to the end of a bungee cord she will take you down with her for your cruelty). She loves doing tribal belly dance, singing, is a self confessed Trekkie, and will never pass up a good bar of chocolate. If you put her anywhere in the vicinity of snow, please be aware of avalanches, we hear her squeals of excitement are at just the right pitch to trigger them.

THE SERIOUS STUFF:

Emily’s non-fiction piece entitled “Insert Hope Here”, a reflective piece on the digitisation of books, was published in the Australian literary magazine Voiceworks #84, ‘Pulp’. In the 2012 Aurealis Awards she was awarded the Kris Hemsbury Award for an emerging speculative fiction writer. For the last twelve months she has been mentored by world renowned fantasy author Isobelle Carmody, and is blogging about the lessons she learn at http://theoriginalfantasy.blogspot.com

For three years Emily has talked to experts from around the globe, including successful indie authors, publishers and the heads of online e-publishing giants. Concurrently she sought out expert mentors in the fields of internet marketing, social media and webinars, gathering all their combined knowledge and applying it to e-books, writing and publishing industry. This research resulted in the E-Book Revolution Blog (http://ebookrevolution.blogspot.com) where she talks about e-books and author marketing.

She has spoken on marketing and e-books for the Australian Society of Authors, If:Book Australia, the World Fantasy and the National Young Writers’ Festival in Newcastle. At this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Festival she created and facilitated Adelaide: Choose Your Own Adventure, a project run with If:Book Australia. This involved forming a team of writers to pen fictional choose-your-own-adventure-stories based in the Adelaide streets. These stories were accessed by scanning a QR code on posters located around the CBD with a smart phone to reveal the story. Currently she is blogging for If:Book Australia and Meanland and was invited as a guest blogger on Isobelle Carmody’s month long launch site for her e-book, Greylands. She offers authors and publishers consulting on author platforms and the e-book revolution.

Always striving to challenge herself, Emily wrote her first play (Jake’s Page) which was accepted into Urban Myth’s Out of the Boot program (SA). The play was dramaturged by Caroline Reid, and produced in June 2012.

Feel Free To Contact Emily Online!

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ebookrevolution

Twitter: @itsemcraven

Madeline Cain FB Page: http://www.facebook.com/GrandAdventuresOfMadelineCain

Blog: http://ebookrevolution.blogspot.com, http://theoriginalfantasy.blogspot.com

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