Hold onto your space boots! Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff descend to talk Illuminae, their unforgettable New York Times bestselling novel and the first in a heart-stopping trilogy about truth, courage and zombies.
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Award-winning ABC Local Radio broadcaster Kelly Higgins-Devine is a preternaturally curious human being who loves seeking out great personal stories. Kelly worked in commercial radio for many years at the start of her career, but has been with the ABC since 1999, first as a journalist, senior sub-editor and newsreader and then as a presenter when she hosted either the Afternoons or Drive program since 2004. Kelly is currently working on her first novel, a children’s book loosely based on the free-range childhood shenanigans of her father and his siblings in 1950s rural Victoria.
Jay Kristoff is The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Lotus War, The Illuminae Files and The Neverknight Chronicle. He is the winner of two Aurealis Awards, an ABIA, nominee for the David Gemmell Morningstar and Legend awards. He has been named multiple times in the Kirkus and Amazon Best Teen Books list and published in more than 25 countries, most of which he has never visited. He is as surprised about all of this as you are. He abides in Melbourne with his secret agent kung-fu assassin wife, and the world’s laziest Jack Russell.
Amie Kaufman is an internationally bestselling young adult author, whose multiple award-winning books have been published in 25 countries. She is the co-author of Illuminae with Jay Kristoff and These Broken Stars with Meagan Spooner. Both series are in development for film and TV. Amie has degrees in history, literature, law and conflict resolution, and lives in Melbourne with her husband, their rescue dog, and an extremely large personal library.
