Bill Bennett began his career as a journalist at the ABC - and later segued into independent production as a writer/director, making documentaries and feature films. He's won numerous awards both in Australia and internationally, and his movies have been invited to some of the world's most prestigious film festivals. He's an Adjunct Professor of Creative Industries at one of Australia's leading universities, and lives in Mudgee, Central New South Wales, with his wife Jennifer. Palace of Fires- Initiate is his first novel.