Amanda Ashby

Amanda Ashby was born in Australia and after spending the last twenty years dividing her time between England, Australia and New Zealand, shes finally settled in the gorgeous Hawkes Bay region of New Zealand. When shes not moving country, she likes to write books (okay, she also likes to eat chocolate, watch television and sit around doing not much, but lets just keep that amongst ourselves, shall we?). She has a degree in English and Journalism from the University of Queensland and is married with two children.

Her debut book, You Had Me at Halo was nominated for a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice award. Zombie Queen of Newbury High was listed by the New York Public Librarys Stuff for the Teen Age 2010 and Fairy Bad Day, was selected by Voya as one of their Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers 2012 and was a SCBWI Crystal Kite Award finalist for the Australia/NZ region.