Samantha is an author of speculative fiction who has been living stories as long as she can remember, telling them from the moment she could talk and writing them from the moment she could clumsily grip a crayon. She lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband, two children, one fluffy golden retriever and a turtle. Everywhere she goes, Samantha sees magic and mystery and all of the incredible things that are both real and imagined, which she pours out through her fingers in the form of books. So far in her writing career, Samantha has written for herself, magazines, short story anthologies, websites, blogs and much more. She is most at home in front of her keyboard with a hot cup of chai tea and a little dragon sitting on her shoulder.