EUMY Education - Enrichment Units for the Middle Years: online and print units for extending able students anywhere, at any time across the school campus. After over twenty years specialising in writing and teaching extension for gifted students, fifty enrichment units are now available or being prepared for middle years: approximately Grade 4 to 10 around the world. The new EUMY Mathematics units replace Being Mathematical, which is used in schools in six countries.

Prior to working on the EUMY units, I had ten educational titles published in Australia and overseas, in the fields of science, mathematics, computing and gifted education. I work as a consultant specialising in curriculum development for gifted students. Teaching my enrichment units keeps me constantly in touch with the realities of the classroom. I offer professional development in differentiating the curriculum or providing courses designed specifically to challenge the highly able.

I write! I love to write. My books fall into three categories: education, fiction and popular science. My fourteenth book, Spiders: Learning To Love Them, will be published in July, 2008, in Australia and later in the US. It tells of my journey from arachnophobia to obsession while introducing the reader to these extraordinary creatures. The book tells readers how to get to know their own personal home spiders. One thing which is certain - they will have some. Spiders are everywhere - they just tend to stay well hidden if they can.

A new project, linked to the release of Spider is being tested It is called Spiderbloggers - for anyone who wants to get to know a single spider, or two or three, in their own backyard. Spiderbloggers will generate real research into spider behaviour,  a much neglected field.

2006 sees the publication of my popular science title, Crocodile: evolution's greatest survivor, published in hardback by Allen & Unwin in 2006. It is available in all good bookstores, as well as Amazon.com.

Crocodile tells the story of the human interactions with the crocodilians: true crocodiles, the alligators and the gharial.

The natural history of these extraordinary creatures is told through their pre-history, mythology, biology and the stories of the people who have interacted with them over the centuries, including today's zoologists, crocodile farmers and zoo-keepers. With an Australian focus on our two species, the Saltwater and Freshwater crocodiles, it has a global perspective.

Spider: from arachnophobia to obsession will be in the same beautiful, high production series.

The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal, is a popular science title published in Australia by Allen & Unwin in 2004, and in America by Thunder's Mouth Press in 2005. Contents and reviews can be found from the link or by clicking on the images. It is readily available from Amazon.com and bookshops.

I love doing dinner and school talks based on this book, with plenty of magic replicating psychic phenomena: Science and the Paranormal.

Fiction:

Avenging Janie, a novel for young adults, was published by Lothian Books in 2003.

It tells the story of a fraudulent psychic cult. Janie died because she needed to believe. Marie seeks to avenge her death and destroy the cult, but it isn't going to be easy. You see, people believe what they want to believe, not what the evidence tells them.

Details and reviews can be found by clicking on the image. I am currently working on my second novel.