Rebecca was raised in a leafy beachside suburb of Sydney, in a family home built by her great grandfather, a Sea Captain from the Shetland Islands. As a child, she often heard his ghostly footsteps march down the long hall at night, and this sparked her fascination with all that is magical and unknown.
At six, determined to prove she had an imagination for fear she didn’t, Rebecca wrote her first book, The Mermaid Kingdom, filling pages of a tiny pocketbook with underwater stories of mermaid peoples and their gnarly shark predators.
Later, while working in the Advertising Industry, she wrote two novelty books, published through Murdoch Books, on kids views about God and religion, and life. Little did she know that news of this would inspire the Mayor of New Orleans, C. Ray Nagin to approach her while she was working in his Recovery Office at City Hall post Hurricane Katrina and Rita, to ask her to draft his memoirs.
Today, Rebecca writes in her spare time while working in Ageing Research with Aboriginal communities. Her dream is to write stories that engage and inspire, and of course, encourage a little woo woo.
