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About this author

Karen Simpson Nikakis grew up in a small country town in Victoria, Australia where she was fortunate enough to ride horses through beautiful alpine scenery. This time continues to influence her fantasy world-building. Her work career has been based in education both at the school and university levels. She currently heads a writing and publishing degree at NMIT in Melbourne.


It is always great to attend science fiction and fantasy conventions, especially one such as Conflux that this year was also home to NatCon. The usual great writers were there but also folk able to discuss the state of international publishing. I also got the opportunity to pitch my books to 4 publishers.

Pitching is both necessary and scary but my strong advice is to take every opportunity to p... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.88 · 286 ratings · 35 reviews · 4 distinct works · Similar authors
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Team Human
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The title Team Human immediately makes you think of Twilight Fan-Fic eg Team Edward and Team Jacob, and the byline about vampires adds to the impression. But this a surprising book. It explores some very serious ideas without getting bogged down, and...more
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The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf (The Tribe #1)
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This book begins by making you think it will be a rerun of John Wyndham's The Chrysalids or Isobelle Carmody's Obernewtyn series. After all, there has been a Catastrophe and the post-catastrophic world has thrown up humans with special abilities who...more
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"A chilly Kyneton day for their Writers' Festival part of their 40th Daffodil Festival. Writers gathered to talk about bush poetry, blogging, how to get published (me)and generally the joys of writing. It was great to sell 4 sets of The Kira Chroni..." Read more of this blog post »
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