Sue Isle
Sue Isle (born in 1963 in Fremantle, Western Australia) is the author of the Young Adult Fantasy novel Scale Of Dragon, Tooth Of Wolf, the dystopian short story collection Nightsiders (a Twelve Planets Collection, Twelfth Planet Press) and nonfiction children's book Wolf Children.
Sue lives in Perth, Western Australia and has been writing as long as she knew that real people wrote books. She has sold quite a few stories around the place to markets such as Aurealis, Orb, ASIM, Agog, Sword and Sorceress and Tales of the Unanticipated [USA] and moved online with Shiny, a YA fiction magazine! Her other interests include history, sf conventions, roleplay gaming, gardening and working out how best to turn her hometown into a dystopian scenario.
Scale Of Dragon, Tooth Of Wolf is about a rebellious teen in an alternate-world 16th century joining a group of sorceresses. Nightsiders is a mastery of four interconnected short stories set in the not-too-distant future of a dystopian Australia.
Sue lives in Perth, Western Australia.
“Creative exhaustion is first cousin to writer’s block. First off, I try to accept that when it hits, I am not wasting time, but preparing myself to return to work. I blog more. I do something different, like answering this question. If I can’t force myself to finish a story, then perhaps it was not worth finishing. If I have to push rather than let it flow, it won’t be as good as if I take more time, mess around in the garden and try to shove the guilt deep into the compost pile. I am still a writer so long as I am thinking!”