Ken Catran has published over 20 Young Adult novels, has been a finalist five times in the NZ ‘Best Teenage Fiction’ awards, and his books have been published in the US and the UK. His previous Young Adult books for Lothian are ‘Golden Prince’, (shortlisted for the 2000 NZ Post Awards and a CBCA Notable Book in 1999), ‘Talking to Blue’ and the sequel, ‘Blue Murder’ (winner of the 2002 Ned Kelly Award for junior crime fiction), ‘Tomorrow the Dark’ and ‘Voyage with Jason’, which won the NZ Post and Best Teenage Fiction awards in 2001. His Takeaways are ‘Fries’ and ‘Artists Are Crazy and Other Stories’, and he wrote ‘Road Kill’ and ‘Dawn Hawk’ in the Crime Waves series, shortlisted for The New Zealand Post Awards. His third book in the ‘Blue’ thriller series, ‘Blue Blood’, will be published in April 2004 and Odysseus will be published in September 2004.
