Books By Zoe Marriott, Andrew Archer - Author

Author of the debut novel The Swan Kingdom, a romantic fantasy inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Wild Swans., About Me: I grew up with an older sister and a younger brother who ganged up on me mercilessly whenever they could get away with it (teaching me to fight dirty at an early age). We had a small menagerie of rescued strays ranging from canaries to kittens, all of whom I liked much better than my siblings. I struggled between being a princess (because I liked frilly dresses and tiaras) and being a tomboy (because I could run faster and spit further than any of the boys). I resolved this by being a princess whenever my hair had grown long, and being a tomboy whenever my mum noticed how long my hair had gotten and chopped it off with the kitchen scissors. I decided I was going to be a writer as soon as I finished reading my first book -- THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE by Enid Blyton -- and mad as it sounds, I never changed my mind. The first story that I wrote was about a rabbit and a pig having