But you will find angels, demons, ghosts, bikies, Norman knights, strippers and parentless children with strange abilities, because freakiness is to be celebrated. I do not like neat, Scooby Doo-endings, so you will never find them in any of my young adult novels. You will also find ethnically diverse characters and socio-economic scenarios - because that is the world I live in and come from. So if you pick up one of my stories - no matter if you’re a three-year-old or an eighteen-year-old - you will be met with young women finding reserves of strength, ferocity, tenacity and adaptability in the face of great adversity. The starting point for all my work is writing empowered female characters that live in a fictional world that more fully resembles the real world and not the one depicted in, say, Neighbours. You’re probably feeling drowsy just reading that.
My legal speciality was the tiny print you find at the back of glossy offer documents. I’ve taught the piano, tutored VCE English students and been a commercial lawyer. I was born in Singapore but migrated to live in Warwick, Queensland, in the 1970s when I was a toddler (where my Dad was a doctor at the Base Hospital). She is a co-founder of the Voices from the Intersection initiative and co-editor of Meet Me at the Intersection, a groundbreaking anthology of YA #OwnVoice memoir, poetry and fiction. Her novels have been translated into German, French, Turkish, Portuguese, Polish and Russian. Her work has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Queensland Literary Awards, CBCA Book of the Year Awards and Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, shortlisted multiple times for the Aurealis Awards and Davitt Awards, and longlisted for the Gold Inky Award and the David Gemmell Legend Award. Rebecca Lim is an award-winning Australian writer, illustrator and editor and the author of over twenty books, including Tiger Daughter (a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award-winner), The Astrologer’s Daughter (A Kirkus Best Book and CBCA Notable Book) and the bestselling Mercy.
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