Liana Kim Skrzypczak is a Korean-Australian Adoptee to a post WWII Polish migrant family. Her writing is inspired by extraordinary people, historical hardship, and provocative settings and can be found in Australian literary magazines: Meanjin Quarterly, Island Magazine, Westerly Magazine and The Big Issue. Liana was the inaugural winner of the Hachette Mentoring Program and was mentored by New York Times best-selling novelist, Sean Williams. Her debut novel, WHEN THE BLUE MOON WAKES (book 1 of the Celestial Lore trilogy), was supported in its early stages of development by the prestigious Wheelers Centre for Writing’s Kat Muscat Fellowship for its themes of DEFIANCE, EMPATHY and FEMINISM. With this fellowship, Liana was able to conduct in-country research into the story’s history, mythology, and setting. UK&C rights were snapped up by Bonnier UK and the trilogy will also be published in Australia and New Zealand by Bonnier imprint Echo.