Julie Fison began her career as a television news reporter, working in Australia, Asia and Europe. She camped with elephants in Kenya, shook hands with an orangutan in Borneo and survived on rat soup on a barge on the Mekong. She began writing for children after a family holiday on the Noosa River in Queensland. Her sons teamed up with friends and spent the summer exploring sand banks, avoiding stingrays, building camps and dodging snakes. The result was the Hazard River series – fast-paced fun with an environmental twist. Julie’s beautiful home state of Queensland is also the setting for her YA novel, Tall, Dark and Distant, while her other books in the Smitten series – Lust and Found and Counterfeit Love were inspired by her time in Asia. Julie has also written two books in the Choose Your Own Ever After series – How to get to Rio and The Call of the Wild.
