Shelby Matheson



Shelby Matheson is
a born-and-raised Australian, currently residing in the quiet, beachside





town of Hervey
Bay, Queensland. She has a Bachelor in journalism and creative writing, and



br>
a graduate diploma
in editing and publishing from USQ. She has been writing full-length





novels since she
was fourteen and has always known that being an author is the only career





for her. In her
spare time, she enjoys video games, drawing, crochet, collecting books (and





even reading
them), but her greatest passion will always be writing and escaping to the





worlds in her
head.

Her debut novel,
Elsewhere, was inspired by the sense of wonder and awe of classic





children's novels
such as Narnia, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Secret Garden, and





more. Elsewhere
pays tribute to these classics through Easter eggs and similar tropes. The





series stays true
to the timeline and facts of World War I, exploring the horrors of the time





through the eyes
of a child, creating a symbolic parallel between the pains of adolescence and





the extreme
changes that the world went through during the war.