After a lifetime making films, I have a new life writing cozy mysteries. Author of Belinda Lawrence mystery series, CAPABLE OF MURDER, THE EMBROIDERED CORPSE, BLOODY HAM, A CANTERBURY CRIME, A WICKED DESIGN MURDER ON THE ISLAND ILLUSION OF DEATH CALAMITY AT KRYME COTTAGE I’m proud to have a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Film Editors Guild and an Australian Film Institute award for Best Editing for the children’s film, Frog Dreaming. Proud also of my first feature film, which I produced and directed, A City’s Child, which won an AFI award for actress Monica Maughan and was invited to screen at the London Film Festival as well as Edinburgh, Montreal, Chicago and Adelaide, where it won the Gold Southern Cross Advertiser Award for Best Australian Film, all in the days when most of you were a mixture of multiplying cells, when the world hadn’t heard of Australian films (apart from the dear departed, Chips Rafferty) and therefore was a neater and cleaner place. I am also a member of the Australian Society of Authors.
