David Vernon

I am a freelance writer and editor.  I am father of two boys.  For the last few years I have focussed my writing interest on chronicling women and men’s experience of childbirth and promoting better support for pregnant women and their partners.

You can see the covers of my books on the left.  Click any of the images and you will be taken to their website or to the bookshop.

My writing interests are varied and (as one would hope) change over time.  My books dealing with childbirth include Men at Birth (2nd edition - 2011), With Women (2007), Men at Birth (1st edition - 2006), and Having a Great Birth in Australia (2005).  I have also compiled a book about women’s experiences with perinatal depression and am seeking a publisher for it.

I am currently working on two Australian history books — Forgotten Australia and The Hunt for Marasmus.  These give  me the opportunity to combine my interest in Australian history with  my fascination with science, pseudoscience and scepticism.

I have had some recent successes in publishing short stories, with Another World appearing in the charity anthology, 100 Stories for Queensland.  The Writers appeared in the quarterly publication “Writer’s Block” and The Ladybird Hunter being published in the monthly juvenile fiction magazine “Cherubbuble.”

To encourage more short story writing in Australia, in 2010 I established the Stringybark Short Story Awards.

I regularly write material for a range of Australian birth magazines and also for The Australian Skeptic.  Some of my other material has appeared in Sunday Life Magazine, the ABC Website “Unleashed” and The Canberra Times.

Between writing my own material I provide editing and writing services to other organisations around Australia.

When not writing, I am kept busy doing my social duty as Chair of both the Lyneham Primary School and Gold Creek School Boards — fascinating jobs.