Shepherd, Joel

Joel Shepherd was born in Adelaide in 1974 and grew up in Perth. He studied film and television at Curtin University but realised that what he really wanted to do was write stories. His first manuscript was shortlisted for the George Turner Prize in 1998, and his first novel, 'Crossover', was shortlisted in 1999. He wrote two other novels in the Crossover series, 'Breakaway' (2003) and 'Killswitch' (2004). SASHA, the first novel of A Trial of Blood & Steel, was published in 2007 in C format and was published in June 2008 in A format. PETRODOR was published in 2008 in C format. The third book, TRACATO, will be released in August 2009.;