Melissa Garside brings together her lifelong love of language with a deep understanding of what children love to read, drawn from her years as a teacher.
Melissa lives south of Sydney with her family, their hilarious golden retriever and some entertaining free-ranging chooks. When she’s not writing or teaching, she enjoys getting her hands dirty in the garden, immersing herself in nature and using her family as guinea pigs for her recipe-free kitchen experiments. Melissa also sheepishly admits to collecting books about words and subscribing to online dictionaries.
Book 2 in the Lexie Moon junior fiction series, Lexie Moon & The Space Day Disaster will be released by Riveted Press in August 2025. Book 1, Lexie Moon & The Word Burgling Bungle is out now from Riveted Press.