Jocelyn has been writing books, on and off, for over 30 years. She had finished with school at 15, but unexpectedly spent her next years studying Industrial Chemistry and Mathematics, part-time, while she washed test tubes in a laboratory, and later while teaching Maths in the old-style Technical Schools.

She got the opportunity to work on a physical-chemistry project at the English University of East Anglia in her twenties and within a few months had met and married her first husband Trevor Sellick. They settled back in Australia, had three children, built two houses, and Jocelyn went back to teaching.

In the late 1980s, now divorced, she started writing. Pan MacMillan and Text published her books. She was runner-up in the Premier’s Literary Award one year and supplemented her income by giving talks about her books at schools and libraries.

In 1998 she went to work for Lonely Planet, the travel guide publisher, as an editor, senior editor then finally as a travel writer, writing travel guides to Vanuatu and New Caledonia and co-writing guides to Victoria, New South Wales and Bali. “These years were magnificent, a time of fun and adventure, wild dangerous times”. Jocelyn retired in her seventies when new technology-based publishing overtook her.

So since 2012, she has been writing again. Now that P.O.D. – Print on Demand – has become available on Amazon she has written and published Kava and Chaos in the Sth Pacific, so you can romp through Vanuatu’s magical islands with her. Then for the Young Adult market, she has finished High Hopes about love and hate at a school ski camp and Hot Hoppers, about skiing on clouds. This story is set in 2030 when there’s no snow on Victoria’s mountains (she started writing it 20 years earlier and life has nearly caught up with her imagination).

She is currently writing her autobiography.