'Gina Dawson was a qualified junior primary teacher before she changed career and went into unrelated self-employment. She also undertook further study, in business, counselling and writing. She is now retired and has taken the opportunity to return to writing. She enters short story competitions and is working on manuscripts while volunteering as a proofreader for a charity and spends time recording elderly people’s life stories for that same charity.' (Source : Booktopia website)