Biography

Deborah Kalin was once addressed by a recruitment agency as “Cheng Soon” no matter how often she corrected them.

A resident of the east coast of Australia, she shares a birthday with Pablo Picasso, was born in the year of the Fire Dragon, collects books beyond her ability to read them all, and once worked at an aluminium smelter where a sparrowhawk routinely ripped pigeons to pieces on a lamp post just outside the cafeteria.

She mostly ate not the meat at this cafeteria.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.— Henry David Thoreau

 

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Otherwise, you can find me through email or IM.

 

Books I love and regularly re-read:

  • The Mirror of Her Dreams / A Man Rides Through, by Stephen Donaldson
  • Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen
  • The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Someplace To Be Flying, by Charles de Lint
  • The Real Story, by Stephen Donaldson (but not the rest of the series)
  • Dune, by Frank Herbert (but not the rest of the series)
  • Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
  • Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
  • The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (and the rest of the series, except Mostly Harmless)
  • Possession: A Romance, by A.S.Byatt
  • Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
  • Behold The Man, by Michael Moorcock
  • To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
  • Little Drummer Girl, by John le Carre
  • The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, by John Le Carre
  • The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux
 

Movies I love and regularly re-watch:

  • The Lord of the Rings
  • Spirited Away
  • Fight Club
  • Breakfast At Tiffany's
  • Amelie
  • Moulin Rouge
  • Cypher
  • Garden State
  • Grosse Pointe Blank
  • The Usual Suspects
  • Donnie Darko
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Being John Malkovich
  • Dead Poets Society
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
  • An Ideal Husband
 

For the Writers

My books are published in Australia and New Zealand by Allen & Unwin, who do accept un-agented submissions: