So who am I exactly?  I studied communications at university and over the past 25 years have built a career based on knowing how to effectively communicate and connect with people of all ages.  During that time I’ve worked as a magazine editor, a kids TV scriptwriter, a newspaper columnist, a feature writer and an author. It was when my first novel “The Girl Most Likely” was published in 2003 that I found myself being asked to go into schools to teach writing workshops and occasionally to give “author talks”.  My author talk was based on the themes of my debut novel: everything I’d learnt about screwing up, bouncing back, choosing great friendships and ditching perfectionism. The first time I stood in front of a group of teens chatting with them about resilience, I knew I was where I was meant to be. Eventually through word-of-mouth I was inundated with bookings from schools to talk to students about these topics.  I was twice invited to speak at the Halogen National Young Leaders Day in Brisbane (2004 and 2006, I think) and both times received the top rating from the thousands of high school kids in attendance.