Kirsty Brooks is the author of The Vodka Dialogue,The Happiness Punch and The Millionaire Float,(published by Hachette Livre) and Hitching: Tales from the byways and superhighways, Mad Love and Lady Luck and the upcoming sequel, Bossy Boots, (published by Wakefield Press).
The fourth Cassidy Blair book, The Lady Splash will be published by Hachette Livre in July this year and has been listed by The Weekend Australian in the Lit List for books to look out for in 2006.
Kirsty is the director of Driftwood Manuscripts, an assessment and editing agency for writers. She is a former Chair of the SA Writers’ Centre, has a Journalism Degree, and an Advanced Diploma in Professional Writing.
In 2004 Kirsty was awarded the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship as part of the South Australian Premiers Awards and has been a guest at every major Australian writers’ festival. She runs workshops and seminars on writing, publishing and manuscript assessment, is a mentor for emerging writers and writes for The Adelaide Magazine.
Her next two Cassidy Blair books, The Tequila Bikini and The Dignity Flip will be published in 2007 and 2008 respectively.