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 1 Published works 1.1 Books for adults and young adults 1.2 Books for kids 1.3 Books for younger children 1.4 Books for very little readers 1.5 Short stories for children and adults 1.6 Plays co-authored with Hazel Edwards 2 Awards 3 External links

Published works

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

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

Books for younger children

• 6788
• Seawall
• The Little Big School
• Shape Shifters
• Bridging the Snowy
• Beyond the Thicket

Books for very little readers

• A Hairy Story
• An Interview with Cindy Centipede
• Captain Gallant
• The History of Bread
• Lame Duck Protest

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

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.

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

External links

• Goldie Alexanders' official homepage

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