Guardian of Empire

Kylie Chan has a BBus in information technology, an MBA in information technology and an MPhil in Creative Writing researching new directions self-publishing. She started out as an IT consultant and trainer specialising in business intelligence systems in Australia, and then had her own consulting business for ten years in Hong Kong. When she returned to Australia in 2002, Kylie studied martial arts and Buddhist and Taoist philosophy and wrote the bestselling nine-book Dark Heavens series, a fantasy homage of Chinese mythology and wuxia martial arts dramas. Her current work is the three-book ‘Dragon Empire’ science fiction series. She is a full-time writer based on Queensland’s Gold Coast.

Jennifer Vuletic is an Australian actress, singer and NIDA graduate from the class of 1984. She has enjoyed a varied career travelling all over Australia and the world, and has toured internationally with the hit show Mamma Mia!, playing the role of Tanya. She also performed in Menopause The Musical, The Women of Troy and Jerry Springer: The Opera. She has recorded audiobooks for over 24 years and has won numerous awards for her narrations, including the Trish Trinick Award for Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things.