Goldie Alexander
Goldie Alexander has published fiction and non-fiction books for adults and children both here and overseas, plus many prizewinning short stories and articles. Her latest how-to-write’ text. for adults is “Mentoring Your Memoir”: She writes for history, crime, science fiction, fantasy and contemporary settings. Her best known book " My Australian Story: Surviving Sydney Cove", now in its 10th edition. Her latest historical fiction for Young Adults is “The Youngest Cameleer” Her books for older children include the children’s crime novel “Hedgeburners- An AZ PI Mystery”. Also new is her third collection of short stories: “Space Footy and Other Stories”, the companion to ‘My Horrible Cousins and Other Stories”, and “eSide: a contemporary fantasy in five parts”. Her culinary mystery series for adults “Unjust Desserts", "UnKind Cut", and UnFair Coverup” , make up a trilogy of ebooks under the umbrella title of “The Grevillea Murder Mysteries”. Her website is www.goldiealexander.com.
Contents |
[edit] Published works
[edit] Books for adults and young adults
Body and Soul: Lilbet's Romance The Grevillea Murder Mysteries: 1.Unjust Desserts 2.Unkind Cut 3. UnFair Coverup Mentoring Your Memoir
[edit] Books for kids
- "My Australian Story: Surviving Sydney Cove"
- "Killer Virus and Other Stories"
- "Astronet"
- "Cowpat$"
- Starship Q
- Trapeze
- Hedgeburners: An A~Z PI Mystery.
- My Horrible Cousins and Other Stories
- Space Footy and Other Stories
[edit] Books for younger children
- 6788
- Seawall
- The Little Big School
- Shape Shifters
- Bridging the Snowy
- Beyond the Thicket
[edit] Books for very little readers
- A Hairy Story
- An Interview with Cindy Centipede
- Captain Gallant
- The History of Bread
- Lame Duck Protest
[edit] Short stories for children and adults
- Arachnida
- Suffer Little Children
- Seawall
- Mirror Play
- Wimbledon Avenue
- Alley-Cat
- Chicken
- First Kiss
- Falling
- Blind Date
- Next time we’ll go by plane
- Silver Paper
- Space Gypsies
- Eating Nemo
- The Devil's in the Daughters
- Jack and the GM Beanstalk
[edit] Plays co-authored with Hazel Edwards
- Right and Wrong Clsssroom Plays.
- Health and Understanding Maga series
- Dramatics: A Resource Book
- The Business of Writing for Young People.
[edit] Awards
- Scholarship for the Romanian Writers Exchange Program September 2005
- Australian Society of Authors Mentor program 2005-2006
- 2000 & 2001 Mary Grant Bruce Award for two long short stories
- Mavis Road Medley. CBC Notable Book. Short Listed by the Office of Multicultural Affairs. Youth Literature 150 best Book
- Easternport Bay - Victorian Ministry of Arts Writing grant
- My Australian Story: Surviving Sydney Cove - CBC Notable Book
- Cassie’s Big Swim - Brant Point Literary prize
- Body and Soul - Brant Point Literary prize
