Two of Australia’s best-selling TEEN/YA authors will be in Ocean Grove for talks about a wide range of topics.
AJ Betts and Mark Smith will discuss all things reading, writing, dystopian and climate change at Ocean Grove’s Bookgrove.
The free session will enable locals to meet the authors to share ideas, talk about their books and meet other like-minded readers with the possibility to be part of a TEEN/YA book club at Bookgrove.
Mark Smith, lives on the Surf Coast and in his YA fiction, combines his love of the outdoors (surfing, mountain biking, travelling) with his experience as a teacher in a residential campus on Victoria’s west coast.
He believes strongly in the resilience and adaptability of young people when they’re confronted with new and challenging situations.
AJ Betts is a Fremantle-based author, speaker, teacher and cyclist.
Her latest work is a two-book speculative fiction series comprising Hive and Rogue.
Her fourth novel, Hive, was shortlisted for the 2019 Indie Book Awards and 2019 ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children, and is a notable author in the Children’s Book Council of Australia awards.
The talks will be at Bookgrove on Tuesday 1 October at 2pm.
