Stephen Dando-Collins

"Stephen Dando-Collins is an award-winning Australian historical author and novelist, with books centred around Antiquity, American history, British history, Australian history, and French history. He also writes children's novels, the first of which, Chance in a Million, (Hodder Headline, Sydney, 1998), was filmed by PolyGram as Paws, starring Billy Connolly. In 2012, he launched the critically acclaimed Caesar the War Dog series of children's novels, based on the true stories of modern day military dogs serving in Afghanistan and elsewhere. He also contributes articles to various journals such as BBC History Magazine and Australian Heritage Magazine, and lectures about his books around the world. Dando-Collins worked in advertising in Australia and Britain as a graphic designer, copywriter, creative director, and senior advertising agency executive. An independent marketing consultant for some years, he ran the Australian operations of an American market research company before moving to Noosa Heads, and then to the Tamar Valley in Tasmania, where he was born, and where he now writes full time." - Wikipedia