G’day and welcome to my website. My name is Ian Trevaskis, I'm an Australian author living in a beaut little country town in north-east Victoria, not far from the mountains where I love to ski the back country in winter.

After submitting Of Boys and Boats to a number of publishers without success, Ford Street Publishing in Melbourne recognised a good story when they saw one and offered me a contract to publish. What followed was over 12 months of extensive editing and rewriting...

When I’m not writing I love to talk about what I’ve written or what I am about to write! If you are seeking an experienced speaker and former teacher, I'd love to hear from you.

A list of my published works; Of Boys and Boats, Young Adult novel, Ford Street Publishing, 2020. The Towers of Zordran, Young Adult Novel. Edge of the World, picture story book. Hopscotch: Golden Scarab, the second book in the Hopscotch series. Delilah’s Dream, picture story book...

As well as writing picture books, novels and short stories I’m also a contributing writer to two outdoorsy magazines, ‘Wild’ and ‘Great Walks’. My most recent article about walking the Portuguese Coastal Camino, from Porto to Santiago de Compostela appeared in ‘Great Walks’...

Noah’s Ark began as a story about a magpie who couldn’t sing and became a hero when she saved a small town from an approaching bushfire. Along the way the story morphed into something quite different, but with elements of the original story remaining...