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Profile
V.M. Jones is an exciting new talent who is already making her mark internationally.
Her work is directed at pre-and early teens, and is notable for its authentic
characters, convincing dialogue and imaginative plots, which ask searching questions
of her readers.
Selected published works
Buddy, 2002, winner Junior Fiction and Best First Book, 2003
New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards; Juggling with Mandarins, 2003, winner Junior Fiction category, 2004 New Zealand Post Children’s
Book Awards and White Ravens selection, Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2004; The Karazan Quartet:
The Serpents of Arakesh, 2003; Beyond the Shroud, 2004; Prince of the Wind, 2004; Quest for the Sun, 2005; Shooting the Moon, 2006; Echo and Hush 2008.
Publishers
HarperCollins New Zealand
www.harpercollins.com
Biography
V.M. Jones is the pen name of Vicky Jones. She was born in Zambia in
1958 and educated in South Africa, gaining her Bachelor of Arts degree at the
University of Cape Town, where she majored in English, Archaeology and Social
Anthropology. A career as a gemologist followed and she eventually migrated
to New Zealand with her family. While Jones worked for some time as a freelance
marketing consultant, since the publication of Buddy she has been writing full-time.
Her sixth book, Quest for the Sun, was published in June 2005. Together
with Prince of the Wind (2004), Quest completes the Karazan
Quartet, a fantasy series which has been successfully sold into a number
of countries (Japan, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
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