Michele Clark McConnochie has worked in education as a teacher and manager for over 20 years. These days, she is also a freelance writer with more than 300 articles to her name, has ghost-written two young adult novels and is the author of The Strange Sagas of Sabrina Summers. She teaches creative writing, academic English, and business communication, and is a committee member in the local branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors. Michele currently lives in Christchurch, New Zealand with her husband, step-daughter, and two very spoilt rescue cats. She is Welsh, but when people ask her where she is from she tells them Shropshire, UK, where she spent most of her life and where her family still lives.