Renae Lucas-Hall

Renae Lucas-Hall is an Australian-born British novelist and writer. Renae spent many years studying French, Italian and Japanese because she loves languages and she always wanted to be an interpreter, a teacher or a writer. Renae graduated from Monash University in Australia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Japanese language and culture before living and working in Tokyo for two years. Renae has continued to work with the Japanese for many years in Japan, Australia and the United Kingdom. Renae has also completed an Advanced Diploma of Business Marketing at RMIT in Melbourne and at the University of Gloucestershire in the UK. Over the past twenty years, Renae has enjoyed visiting Japan many times for work or as a tourist and these days she continues to love reading and writing about anything and everything related to Japan, whether it be fiction or non-fiction. Renae lives in the Cotswolds in the United Kingdom with her husband and their Siberian husky.

Renae Lucas-Hall's first novel Tokyo Hearts: A Japanese Love Story was published with Grosvenor House Publishing in 2012. Tokyo Tales: A Collection of Japanese Short Stories was published in June 2014 and a futuristic schi-fi novelette Tokyo 2060: Welcome to the Future was released in 2015. Renae is currently working on her fourth book called Tokyo Dreams - this is the sequel to Tokyo Hearts. You can find out more about Renae, her books and her writing at http://www.cherryblossomstories.com/.