Hi, I'm AJ Betts.
I'm the Australian author of three young adult novels: ZAC & MIA, WAVELENGTH, and SHUTTERSPEED.
I'm the Australian author of three young adult novels: ZAC & MIA, WAVELENGTH, and SHUTTERSPEED.
ZAC & MIA is my third novel for young adults. It was published by Text Publishing (2013) in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, and has since been published in Germany, the US, Canada, Turkey, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Latin America, Brazil, and Russia. It will soon be released in Italy. More information on international editions can be found here.
ZAC & MIA won the 2014 NSW Premier's Award (Ethel Turner Prize), the 2014 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award, and the 2012 Text Prize. It was shortlisted for the 2014 Queensland Literary Award, the 2015 Dioraphte Literatour Prize in Holland, the 2015 WAYBRAs and the Buxtehuder Bulle Award (Germany, 2015).
In recent ZAC & MIA news, Reading Australia has created a great teaching resource. The novel has also made BuzzFeed's list of Romantic Lines from YA (who'd have thought?!).
I'm currently in my writing-cave. To be honest, I've been in this cave for a few years now. (I really wish I was faster at this book-writing stuff.) I'm onto revisions so hopefully I'll have a solid manuscript by mid-year. This book is different to anything I've written, and I'm completely engrossed in it. I hope it'll be worth the wait ;-)
ZAC & MIA won the 2014 NSW Premier's Award (Ethel Turner Prize), the 2014 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award, and the 2012 Text Prize. It was shortlisted for the 2014 Queensland Literary Award, the 2015 Dioraphte Literatour Prize in Holland, the 2015 WAYBRAs and the Buxtehuder Bulle Award (Germany, 2015).
In recent ZAC & MIA news, Reading Australia has created a great teaching resource. The novel has also made BuzzFeed's list of Romantic Lines from YA (who'd have thought?!).
I'm currently in my writing-cave. To be honest, I've been in this cave for a few years now. (I really wish I was faster at this book-writing stuff.) I'm onto revisions so hopefully I'll have a solid manuscript by mid-year. This book is different to anything I've written, and I'm completely engrossed in it. I hope it'll be worth the wait ;-)
AJ
