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About Scott Brodie Scott Brodie's first book was published in 1983, under the pseudonym Samuel Brimson (his maternal grandfather's name). Since then he has had more than 150 books published across a wide range of subjects including transport, Australian history, world history, histories and cultures of Asian nations, social histories, military and political topics. His most successful was Australia's Own: The History of Holden, which sold in excess of 45 000 copies in Australia. His books are found in most school and public libraries across Australia. Born in Brisbane, soon afterwards Scott spent some time in Port Moresby, where his father Ken was stationed with the Australian Army, before returning to Brisbane and his grandparents' home at Rosalie. Most of his youth was spent in the Brisbane suburb of Stafford, except for a life-changing two years in Penang when his father was posted to Malaya (as it then was). His early working years were a mishmash of mistakes and lost opportunities, starting as a message boy with an advertising agency (in the days before couriers) and ranging through storeman in a softgoods warehouse, telephone sales clerk for a whitegoods manufacturer, shop assistant in a jewellery store, and traffic clerk with an airline. He found his way into work as a sales representative selling — or failing to sell —earthmoving equipment. A more successful period followed selling pens, jewellery and watches across Queensland before a relatively long stint in the greeting card industry. In 1978 he moved to Sydney and began a career in the book business. After five years in management with a major distributor he began writing, which he has continued off and on ever since. Scott has worked in most aspects of the publishing industry: distribution, sales, marketing, promotion, translation rights and licensing, and editorial. In the 1990s Scott travelled extensively in the Asia-Pacific region, managing export sales as well as researching opportunities for local language publishing enterprises in Thailand, Taiwan and Indonesia. He combined this with editorial responsibilities, including commissioning books and managing relations with Australian authors. Scott was also a media spokesperson, making many appearances on radio and television and in the press. In 1994 Scott launched a representation service for Australian, British, US and Canadian publishers, selling their English-language titles across South-east Asia. This broadened into dealing in translation rights and licensing book series to Asian publishers. In 1999 he began work on the Australian Knowledge series of illustrated non-fiction for schools for Grolier Australia and later Watts Publishing. In subsequent years , for Gareth Stevens (Reader's Digest) in the USA, Scott wrote an eight-volume history of the nations of the world. He also expanded his interests to include mapping of cities, with highly detailed and well-researched tourist maps of London and New York being published. After a very intense period of writing in the first half of the 2000s, Scott took a break to recharge and renew. In January 2011 he began work on what would become a list of more than sixty books on Australian history, geography, and civics and citizenship for Trocadero Publishing. More recently Scott was commissioned to write eighteen books as part of the Australian Geographic History series for Bauer Publishing. Scott is also a graphic designer specialising in poster prints for sale on various online platforms. As well he is a photographer of architectural, landscape and infrastructure subjects, whose work is sold by a number of global image agencies.

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