Alison Goodman

Goodman's debut novel Singing the Dogstar Blues (published in Australia 1998, subsequently released in several foreign editions) won an Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel.^[1] In July 2007, her adult crime thriller Killing the Rabbit was published in the United States and was shortlisted for the Davitt Award.^[2]

The first book in her crossover fantasy duology The Two Pearls of Wisdom was published in Australia and the U.K in mid-2008. It was also released in the United States in late December 2008 under the title Eon: Dragoneye Reborn. It has subsequently been translated into 12 languages, and won the 2009 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel, is a 2008 James Tiptree, Jr. Award Honor Book and a Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book.^[3][4]

Goodman has also written short stories for several anthologies.^[5] She has a master's degree in creative writing from RMIT University, and has taught in creative writing at the University of Ballarat.^[3]

• Singing the Dogstar Blues (1998)
• Killing the Rabbit (2007)
• The Two Pearls of Wisdom (2008) (a.k.a. Eon: Dragoneye Reborn and Eon: Rise of the Dragoneye)
• Eona (2011) (a.k.a. Eona: The Last Dragoneye, a.k.a. The Necklace of the Gods)
• A New Kind of Death (2012) (rev. ed. of Killing the Rabbit)
• The Dark Days Club: A Lady Helen Novel (2016) (a.k.a. Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club)
• The Dark Days Pact: A Lady Helen Novel (2017)
• The Dark Days Deceit: A Lady Helen Novel (2018)
• The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies (2023)
• The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin (2025) (a.k.a. Ill-Mannered Ladies #2)

• "One Last Zoom at the Buzz Bar" (1994) in The Patternmaker: Nine Science Fiction Stories (ed. Lucy Sussex)
• "Dead Spyders" (1997) in Eidolon, Issue 24, Autumn 1997 (ed. Jonathan Strahan, Jeremy G. Byrne, Richard Scriven)
• "The Real Thing" (2006) in Firebirds Rising: An Original Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy (ed. Sharyn November)