Allison Rushby is a freelance writer/editor from Brisbane, Australia. She is addicted to the fake cheese stuff on corn chips and loves her three-legged cat Hermoine. (The dog next door ate the other leg.) Educationally speaking, she has a BA in Journalism/Russian and a Graduate Diploma in Editing and Publishing. For money, she prostitutes her writing skills to wedding magazines; for love, she writes fiction and creative non-fiction. All this is a far cry from what she wanted to be when she was five years old - a ballerina with pierced ears.