Echo Lake

Joan Sauers is a screenwriter, producer and author who worked in London, Los Angeles and New York before settling in Australia. She has lectured in screenwriting in Sydney, London, Paris, Berlin and Casablanca. She has had fourteen books published in Australia, the US, India and Japan. She has been script editor on films including The Babadook and TV shows, Rake and The Principal, and has written many screenplays. Most recently, Joan was a writer on the ABC series Wakefield, which also aired on Showtime in the US. She is currently writing the TV series Ladies in Black, and a sci-fi romance created by her daughter, as well as her next Southern Highlands mystery. Joan divides her time between Sydney and the Southern Highlands, and has one daughter and two grandsons.