Annette Freeman is a born and bred Tasmanian, educated on the island and at the Australian National University in Canberra, where she completed degrees in English Literature and Law. Although there is a lot of creative satisfaction in literature there is not much money to be made, so the law was where her vocation took her. Having subsequently spent thirty-plus years of her life as a corporate lawyer, she now sees less of her office and concentrates instead on writing, musing, studying philosophy and history, travelling as far as possible as often as possible - and adventure trekking. This last interest took her on adventures to Mt Kilimanjaro and to the Arctic regions, resulting in two quirky travel memoirs. 

In between these adventures Annette opened – and closed – a very special café bookshop in the heart of Sydney. It was a tale worth telling, which she has done in her book Tea in the Library, now available in a second edition. Her first novel is The Bright Side Of Life, the adventure of Charlie Brightman, an optimistic if unlucky drama student.

She now lives in Sydney, Australia, and blogs about writing at sendchampagne.me and occasionally tweets about it @sendchampagne