Born 1972, David (D.M.) Cornish is old enough to have seen and been astounded by the very first Star Wars film. The discovery of Lord of the Rings when he was 12, then Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake while at university, inspired his love of word conjuring and the invention of secondary worlds.
David Cornish is a fantasy author and illustrator and creator of The Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy (Foundling, Lamplighter and Factotum) which was a big international success with rights sold to US, UK, France, Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, Romania, Denmark, Sweden and Taiwan.
David is also the author of several picture books for children, including / Don’t Want to Eat My Dinner, I Don’t Want To Go To Bed, and Emu’s Halloween, all published by HarperCollins.
David Cornish is represented by Clare Forster at Curtis Brown Australia.