Rebecca was raised in a leafy beachside suburb of Sydney, in a family home built by her great grandfather, a Sea Captain from the Shetland Islands. As a child, she believed she heard his ghostly footsteps march down the long hall at night, and this sparked her fascination with all that is magical and unknown.
At six, determined to prove she had an imagination for fear she didn’t, Rebecca wrote her first book, The Mermaid Kingdom, filling pages of a tiny pocketbook with underwater stories of mermaid peoples and their gnarly shark predators.
Later, while working in the advertising industry, Rebecca wrote two novelty books published through Murdoch Books on kids' views of God and religion, and life. Little did she know that these books would later inspire the Mayor of New Orleans, C. Ray Nagin to approach her while working in his Recovery Office at City Hall, to ask her to draft his memoir on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Today, Rebecca’s dream is to write stories that engage, challenge and inspire women, especially teenagers, to value themselves despite social constraints, and to find the courage to speak up.
