Author John Martin is a Canberra writer. By day he works as a journalist who is a stickler for accuracy; by night, he writes frivolous fiction with little regard for the facts. Or, he wonders, is it the other way around?

He grew up in Tasmania and has written three previous pieces of nonsense: Apples (1994), How Much Is That Scorpion in the Window? (2004), and Adventure By Flip-Flops Under The Southern Cross (eBook, 2005).