Jodie Brownlee is the author of the Ruby series, a fantasy trilogy for upper primary ages and older.

Ruby Rosemount and the Magic Carpet
Ruby Rosemount and the Traveller's Telescope
Ruby Rosemount and the Doomsday Curse

Ruby Rosemount and the Magic Carpet was nominated for the CBCA Book Awards, was Dymocks Critic's Choice and Angus and Robertson's book of the month. Ruby Rosemount and the Traveller's Telescope was nominated by young readers for the W.A. Young Readers Book Award. The books are published in Australia, New Zealand and Italy.

The series was inspired by Jodie's love of magic, adventure, exotic places, genies and camels.

Each book follows Ruby and her two friends Jaffa and Avalon on some exciting, even dangerous adventures where genies, villains, sand sprites, charms, dungeons and an underground maze test all of their powers - including the ones Ruby still doesn't know she has.

Jodie spent her childhood in a rural suburb with her family and motley band of pets. She didn't grow up in a house full of books but she was a regular at the local library. Here she discovered the magic of books such as The Hobbit, The Chronicles of Narnia, Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Wind in the Willows and many others.

Jodie had no inkling that she would one day write books herself, so she studied Fine Art at college. After travelling around the world, she returned to Australia, had several art exhibitions, studied photography, worked for Greenpeace in Sydney photographing their environmental actions, studied multimedia and web design, taught it at college, created Greenpeace's first website and set up a company called Brightspark Web Design. In 2000 she moved to Cairns where she now writes full-time.

Jodie loves to show children how they can write their own stories because having a little know-how is the first important step to bigger things. Read about her school visits.

Her books are available at major book stores or online at Infinitas.