About Louisa Dent
Louisa Dent is away-with-the-faeries in a writer-kind-of-a-way, and like her books, her life is scrambled up. She was born in South Africa and lived in New Zealand and England before moving to Australia, and so she is quite confused as to where she comes from. The reason it is always cold in Suidemor, City of the Faeries, is because she wrote her first book while living in Melbourne, that Australian city which lies on the southern shores of a vast southern continent, the last outpost of all the civilised kingdoms of the Elder Fey…
Her second book, The Gatekeeper's Oath, she wrote during a six month stay in Far North Queensland, Australia, where it was very hot and she had to share her office with geckoes, frogs and mosquitos.
She has now returned to Melbourne, where she is writing the third installment of the Spellcaster trilogy and working in a bookshop.
To contact Louisa Dent, please email her at
Louisa Dent is away-with-the-faeries in a writer-kind-of-a-way, and like her books, her life is scrambled up. She was born in South Africa and lived in New Zealand and England before moving to Australia, and so she is quite confused as to where she comes from. The reason it is always cold in Suidemor, City of the Faeries, is because she wrote her first book while living in Melbourne, that Australian city which lies on the southern shores of a vast southern continent, the last outpost of all the civilised kingdoms of the Elder Fey…
Her second book, The Gatekeeper's Oath, she wrote during a six month stay in Far North Queensland, Australia, where it was very hot and she had to share her office with geckoes, frogs and mosquitos.
She has now returned to Melbourne, where she is writing the third installment of the Spellcaster trilogy and working in a bookshop.
To contact Louisa Dent, please email her at
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"As a child, I loved gamebooks. The pages are all scrambled up, and the story is like an adventure in which you might very well get lost, unless you keep your wits about you. You are the hero, and it is up to you to find the end of the story.
Now as an adult, I see another side to the fun. I think these odd little books teach readers to think for themselves, to solve problems, and to savour the success of accomplishment as well as suffer the consequences of bad decisions. The choices presented in the story are by no means arbitrary - they have been designed to take the reader on a meaningful and empowering journey. The settings are dangerous and the characters so unsavoury, and of course, the consequences are high-risk. You can die, if you don’t produce the right spell or make the right decision. Casting spells is a kind of combat, only without actual weapons. It’s not graphic, but it is suspenseful."
Now as an adult, I see another side to the fun. I think these odd little books teach readers to think for themselves, to solve problems, and to savour the success of accomplishment as well as suffer the consequences of bad decisions. The choices presented in the story are by no means arbitrary - they have been designed to take the reader on a meaningful and empowering journey. The settings are dangerous and the characters so unsavoury, and of course, the consequences are high-risk. You can die, if you don’t produce the right spell or make the right decision. Casting spells is a kind of combat, only without actual weapons. It’s not graphic, but it is suspenseful."
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