About

Amanda has been known as Narn since childhood. The name came from her baby brothers early efforts to pronounce Amanda. When looking for names to distinguish the fiction and the non fiction writing, she felt that Memoir was too lofty for her anecdotes and slices of life, and settled on Chronicles. And so it became the Chronicles of Narn with a respectful tip of the hat to the C.S. Lewis, her first binged author, but this site has nothing to do with that series.

Amanda finds peace and inspiration living in the Dandenong Ranges with husband-man, kids, rampant garden and multiple pets, including a very cheeky chook called Boudica the Brave, Warrior Queen of all Chickens, who you can read about.

In 2009 Amanda won a writing competition with the prize being writing a chapter of a chain thriller with bestselling author, James Patterson. The book, Airborne, was about a highly contagious airborne virus with no cure, that’s quickly spread around the world by international travellers. Obviously, a work of science fiction…did you see it was 2009?

After many years of writing newsletters, articles and informational handouts for her patients, Amanda has retired from her career as a Doctor of Chinese Medicine to concentrate on creative writing.

In 2024 she completed Write Your Novel course through Faber Academy and is currently working on editing and redrafting her first full length manuscript.

When not writing, Narn enjoys both cooking and eating food, cycling to work-off some of that food, crochet, garden yoga, (named after the treacherous poses and stretches involved in gardening on a very steep block), pottery, putting together flat pack furniture, and an obsession with cats, dogs, chickens, miniature donkeys, goats, fabric design, reading, meeting other writers, the Finn Family Moomintroll, Finland, Iceland, Norway, basically anything Scandinavian, meteorology and architecture, (this I not the end, only the end for now.)