Name: Peta Hewitt Alias: ChayPeta Country: Australia Birthdate: July 5th Hobbies: Writing, drawing, reading, World of Warcraft, bushwalking, traveling, scuba diving, camping, getting together with friends for barbies, bushwalking and game/video nights. Favourite Foods: Malaysian laksa, anything Thai, lemon ginger tea, chocolate, cantaloupe, pringles cream and chives, philly cheese with sweet thai chilli sauce on water crackers. Favourite Authors: Robin Hobb, Rumiko Takahashi, Anna McCaffrey, Paul Gallico, Terry Pratchett, David Eddings, Matthew Reilly etc... Favourite Music: Rock and Ballads. Queen, Savage Garden, Nickleback, Chris de Burgh, Enya, Australian Crawl, U2...etc

Obligatory mug shot. Peta Hewitt and her dog Loki the schipperke. (Loki is only eight weeks old in this photo.) Check out the green wool cape. She lives in that cape during winter. Very handy during cold nights at work.

Peta lives in the suburban sprawl of a small southern Australian city along with her husband Wayne, three children Ryan, Chayton and Kyra, schipperke Loki and Australian diamond python Sabre. She is a division one registered nurse (Sister) and works part time night shifts. She worries way too much about what others think of her but is too lazy in any case to change her ways. People who know her consider her to be quiet and a little perculiar until she gets started on a topic that she enjoys and then they can't shut her up. She's not particularly interested in gardening and her house, due to the combined efforts of all the family up to and including the dog, most often resembles a jumble sale. Although she has always played with art and story lines for her own entertainment 'Terinu' is her first endeavour at self publishing. Currently reading: The Second Sons Trilogy by Jennifer Fallon. Currently playing: World of Warcraft under the names of 'Cedarfox', 'Dawnmist' or 'Nefreeti' on the Aman'Thul server. (She wishes anyway. The only regular time she is online here is Friday Night (E.S.T.) and only then when she isn't working extra shifts.) Current Music: Linken Park Current projects: Working on the remaining art work needed to create for the 2007 Terinu calender. Writing chapter 22, Penciling chapter 19. Creating a cover for Chapter 13. Trying to find some spare time to sketch out some concept drawings for the next five chapters. Odd Facts: Peta is allergic to horses but loves being around them so she always keeps a pack of antihistamines in the cubboard to take before going riding. Peta's life long favourite animals are foxes. Peta isn't a mad collector of anything but has on occassion been tempted to purchase statues/plushies/figarines of unicorns, gryphons and dragons. A 16 inch plush green dragon called 'Lucie' sits on her tallboy. Peta prefers Sci Fi space operas to Fantasy but reads both. All three of Peta's children were born safely at home with no medical intervention what so ever besides regular contact with a midwife friend. Peta absolutely cannot stand the taste of coffee or dark chocolate.