Tony Shillitoe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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writer, Educator
Date of Birth: 28-Mar-1955
Place of Birth: Tailem Bend, South Australia, Australia
Profession: writer
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Tony Shillitoe
- Tony Shillitoe is an Australian fantasy writer. His first novel Guardians was published in 1992 by Pan Macmillan.
- It was the first part of the Andrakis trilogy, soon followed by Kingmaker and Dragonlords in 1993.
- The trilogy was partially rewritten for the 2006 edition. In 1995 Shillitoe published a teenage fantasy, The Last Wizard, which was shortlisted in the inaugural Aurealis Awards for Best Fantasy Novel.
- Several short stories and a play monologue were published in various anthologies between 1996–1998. In 1999, Shillitoe published his first young adult novel, Joy Ride with Wakefield Press.
- Set in Adelaide in the mid-1990s, and inspired by a real news story in which two boys stole a bus and drove it up the South Eastern Freeway.
- The novel was popularly received by teenagers and young adults, but despised by most older readers, and did not receive positive publicity.
- It has been used in schools, and also in correctional institutions as a text for rehabilitating young males. Shillitoe returned to the fantasy genre in 2002 when HarperCollins released Blood, the first book in the Ashuak Chronicles.
- Blood was also short-listed for Best Fantasy Novel in the Aurealis Awards in 2002.
- Passion and Freedom completed the Ashuak Chronicle trilogy in 2003. 2003 also saw the release of Shillitoe's second young adult novel, Caught in the Headlights, which was listed as a "Notable Book for Older Readers" by the Children's Book Council, and it has subsequently appeared on Premier's Reading Lists in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.
- In contrast with the previous novel Joy Ride, this novel espouses a more conventional moral attitude.
- Caught in the Headlights has been successful.
- It also reflects the author's zero tolerance for drugs, drawn from the experiences of several close friends who fell victim to drug use. In 2006 Shillitoe released the first novel in a new fantasy series, the Dreaming in Amber quartet, published by Harper Collins.
- The second book, A Solitary Journey, was also released in 2006.
- Prisoner of Fate followed in June 2007 and the final book, The Demon Horsemen, was published in July 2008.
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