Some of us daydream in the real world, but some of us reside in strange and distant underworlds, with dark edges. Masters of genre Justin Cronin, Angela Slatter and Candice Fox reveal the places they go, when they leave the real world behind.
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Open in MapsCandice Fox’s first novel, Hades, won the Ned Kelly Award for best debut in 2014 from the Australian Crime Writers Association. She followed up with the award-winning sequel Eden, and in 2015, Fall. Candice’s latest work is Never Never, a gritty page-turner set in the Australian outback, which she has co-written with the world’s bestselling thriller author, James Patterson. Candice lectures in writing at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, while undertaking a PhD in literary censorship and terrorism.
Justin Cronin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage, The Twelve, The City of Mirrors, Mary and O’Neil (which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize), and The Summer Guest. Other honours for his writing include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Whiting Writers’ Award. A Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Rice University, he divides his time between Houston, Texas, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The Passage and The Twelve have both gone on to sell over 170,000 copies in Australia, and Ridley Scott has bought the rights to turn the trilogy into a film.
Angela Slatter is the award-winning author of The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories,The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, Black-Winged Angels and the novella Of Sorrow and Such. She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, and was the Katharine Susannah Prichard Established Writer-in-Residence this year. Her debut novel Vigil will be released by Jo Fletcher Books in 2016, and the sequel, Corpselight, in 2017.
Trent Jamieson is a teacher, bookseller and writer of science fiction and fantasy, including the Death Works series. He has twice won Aurealis Awards for his short stories.
