Zoë Foster Blake Zoë Foster Blake i(A116272 works by) (a.k.a. Zoe Foster)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Zoe Foster has been beauty editor at Cosmopolitan magazine and beauty director at Harper's Bazaar and has edited the beauty website primped.com.au. In addition to her fiction titles, Foster has written Textbook Romance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting the Guy, with Hamish Blake, (2009) and Amazing Face: Clever Beauty Tricks, Should-Own Products + Spectacularly Useful How-To-Do-Its (2011),  and LOVE! : an enthusiastic and modern perspective on matters (2019). 

Foster is the daughter of David Foster.

Most Referenced Works

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  • Voted number 46 in the Booktopia Top 50 Favourite Australian Authors for 2018

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Things Will Calm Down Soon Crows Nest : Atlantic Books , 2024 28336992 2024 single work novel

'Hair stylist Kit Cooper is at the top of her game. She does the shows in Milan and Paris, tends to pop stars and celebrities, and has styled enough campaigns and magazine covers to last a lifetime. But Kit is ambitious. Restless. She can't help asking: what's next?

'One day, frustrated she can't find the perfect product for a look, she wonders ... could she make it herself?

'THINGS WILL CALM DOWN SOON takes Kit from idea to founder of a highly successful hair-care company. Amid spreadsheets, influencers, product launches and a parade of potential investors, Kit is juggling an eager young team, needy family members, a charismatic but unreliable romantic partner, single parenting and far too many school WhatsApp messages. She is certain, positive, things will calm down soon, because how can life possibly keep going at this pace?

'As the founder of Go-To Skincare, Zoë Foster Blake has learned a lot in her decade of business. THINGS WILL CALM DOWN SOON blends her love of fiction with the knowledge she has acquired in business, entrepreneurship, and mergers and acquisitions. Part entertainment, part founder insight, THINGS WILL CALM DOWN SOON is an entirely new breed of illuminating storytelling.' (Publication summary)

2025 longlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover designed by Amy Daoud.
y separately published work icon Back to Sleep Melbourne : Puffin , 2020 19545032 2020 single work picture book children's

'A warm and funny bedtime story where it’s the parents who won’t go to sleep. A perfect follow-up picture book to No One Likes a Fart by the inimitable Zoë Foster Blake.

'Back to Sleep is a reflection of Zoë Foster Blake’s much-loved brand and profile, told with authenticity and humour born of experience.

'Poor Finn is looking forward to drifting off to sleep in his cosy warm bed when Mummy appears wanting a drink. Finn resettles her and has just fallen asleep when he’s woken again . . . this time by Daddy, who’s had a bad dream. And so it goes. Just when Finn has one parent back to sleep, the other wakes up! When will these two sleep through the night?

'A clever, playful, laugh-out-loud story that celebrates the ups and downs of family life. Kids and parents will enjoy sharing this gorgeous bedtime story.' (Publication summary)

2022 shortlisted West Australian Young Readers' Book Award Picture Books
2021 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards Three to 5 Years
y separately published work icon No One Likes a Fart Hawthorne : Viking , 2017 12885079 2017 single work picture book children's

'Fart is excited! He’s desperate to make friends and have fun. But no one likes a fart. Not even a fart with a heart. Too smelly. Too embarrassing. Too gross.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2018 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards Three to 5 Years
2018 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Children's Picture Book of the Year
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