Avril is a fiction writer who lives in Queensland.  She mostly writes young adult spec fic, but has been known to dabble in other genres.  Along with her family, Avril lives on acreage with various animals ranging from a frog that believes he belongs in the bathroom to a horse who thinks she could be human.

"Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing."

~Margaret Chittenden (writer)