About me

My name is Penny Garnsworthy and I love to write!

I also love football, playing golf, swimming and watching sci-fi and action movies … but back to my writing.

I won my first award for writing at age nine, for a children’s fantasy story. Then at fourteen I had my first publication – the true account of a bus breakdown at a Sunday School picnic. I’ll never forget seeing my name in print in the church newsletter.

These days I write both: fiction novels, mostly sci-fi and fantasy for children and young adults; and non-fiction educational articles for Australia's leading School Magazines.

 

I live on acreage at Riverside near Launceston in beautiful Tasmania with my husband Jim who builds magnificent model ships and an ever growing model railway!

For me, reading is second only to writing and I love to read sci-fi and fantasy, crime, mystery and espionage novels. I also read a lot of different types of children’s books and I research, particularly in the areas of science and history.

If you love to read, I hope you enjoy my books.

If you love to write - or you’d like to - take a look at ‘About Writing’ for some helpful tips.