Official Blurb

Australian Author Alicia Hitchcock collects historical oddities the way some people collect shoes—compulsively and with suspicious glee. Armed with an overactive imagination and a concerning amount of coffee, she creates historical and contemporary novels filled with emotionally captivating drama, high-stakes tension, and heartfelt romance. When not traveling through time on the page, Alicia can be found exploring historical sites and modern cafés with equal enthusiasm, gathering stories that blur the boundaries between then and now.

The Longer version

My mum instilled in me a love of books from an early age so I have always been a reader. For some people, there’s a natural progression from reading to writing. I wrote the odd story here and there when I was younger. When I was in high school, I wanted to be a photojournalist because I love photography as well as writing. But life didn’t quite turn out that way.

In 2017 while I was studying a business degree, I wrote a non-fiction book called Managing a FIFO Family. Writing this book was something I felt I needed to do and the subject matter was close to my heart. My husband worked DIDO (drive in, drive out) so we were in the cycle of the FIFO lifestyle for just over 10 years, and that offered me plenty of learning opportunities. I’d been through all the parenting stages from pregnancy to the teenage years and I felt like there wasn’t enough practical advice on how to handle life at home while you’re partner is away half the time. I finished that book in 2018 and decided to head down the self-publishing route because it was only 65 pages. In this instance, my tendency to be blunt and not waffle was perfectly suited. I found an online publisher and a few months later I had Managing a FIFO Family in my hands.

I’d been bitten by the writing bug long before the moment I held this book, but that feeling was amplified. I wanted to keep writing. I wanted to get all the book ideas out of my head and onto the page. But again, life had other plans. It wasn’t until more recently that I decided to take the plunge and start working on the story that was to become my debut historical fiction, Barbed Wire and Brumbies.

I’ll always be a reader first and foremost but I hope to spend the next chapter of my life letting my creative writing flow.