Jodie Brownlee was born in Wollongong, NSW, in 1967. After leaving school she travelled overseas making a living from a variety of occupations along the way.
Most recently she has worked as Greenpeace photographer and web designer. She is now a full time author.
Jodie started writing for children as a result of monthly meetings with friends and colleagues in Sydney. The meetings revolved around story-telling sessions.
Jodie says, 'These sessions became very important to me and I found myself putting a lot of effort into the monthly installments of my story. All through the month ideas would crop up and the adventures of Ruby Rosemount began to take shape.'
'When I began to write Ruby Rosemount and the Magic Carpet I was working full time as director of my own web design business. I wrote whenever I could grab a moment, which was never enough.
After a while my partner and I moved to Far North Queensland in order to escape the frenzy of city living. We were able to simplify our lives and do what we really enjoyed. For me, this was writing. It was here that I finally finished Ruby Rosemount and the Magic Carpet.
'Ruby Rosemount and the Magic Carpet was inspired by a number of sources - my friend's determined red-headed daughter, a Persian carpet auction, 1001 Arabian Nights, and my own experiences in the Rajasthan desert riding a charismatic camel. I wanted to include in the story all the things I loved as a child (and still love) - magic, genies, mirages, oases, camels, labyrinths, dungeons, palaces, towers, bazaars, and higgledy-piggledy little villages.'
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