LUCINDA E. CLARKE was born in Dublin, but has lived in 8 other countries to date. She wanted to write but was railroaded into teaching. She fell into other careers, radio announcer, then script writing professionally since 1986 winning over 20 awards. She also wrote mayoral speeches, company reports, drama documentaries, educational programmes, adverts, news inserts, court videos, videos for National Geographic, cookery programmes, to name but a few!
She lectured in script writing, had her own column in various publications and wrote articles for national magazines. She was commissioned for two educational books by Heinemann and Macmillan, and book reports for UNESCO and UNICEF.
She ran her own video production company in South Africa.
"Walking Over Eggshells" was her first self-published book, an autobiography of escaping the emotional abuse she suffered from early childhood.
She published her second book a novel, "Amie an African Adventure" in July 2014, which was a #1 bestseller in genre on both sides of the Atlantic.
Lucinda's third book "Truth, Lies and Propaganda", was followed by "More Truth, Lies and Propaganda" - memoirs about her career in the print and broadcast media, highlighting South Africa and its people.
Her new book "Amie Savage Safari" is the 5th in the Amie in Africa award winning series - the world's most reluctant and incompetent spy is is trouble again.
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