Susannah McFarlane understands kids, and loves creating stories they will enjoy reading. She is best known as the author, creator and publisher of some of Australia's most successful children's book series. She created and wrote the awarding-winning EJ12 Girl Hero series, which sold over 1 million copies and sparked the development of the Girl Hero project (www.girlheroproject.com), plus the EJ Spy School series. She also created and co-wrote (with Louise Park, as Mac Park) the hugely popular D-Bot Squad and Boy vs Beast series; wrote the Little Mates series of alphabet books for under-fives; was series editor for Stuff Happens!, about the everyday challenges boys face; and was the original concept-creator of Go Girl! and Zac Power, two of Australia's leading tween fiction series.