Doug MacLeod is a writer and TV producer. Doug has worked on many of Australia's most popular TV shows, including Fast Forward, Big Girls' Blouse, The Micallef Program and SeaChange. He is currently the script editor on the hit ABC series Kath and Kim

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Doug has also written a number of popular children's books. He is famous in schools and prisons for creating Sister Madge's Book of Nuns. It won many lovely awards and a special bumper edition was printed recently by mistake. On The Cards is a book of ridiculous greeting card rhymes with an introduction by Ben Elton that Doug wrote for the international charity Comic Relief. His latest collection of hilariously sinister verse, Spiky, Spunky, My Pet Monkey was released in July 2004. Both books are illustrated by Craig Smith and published by Puffin.

Doug also wrote acclaimed teenage novels Tumble Turn, I'm Being Stalked by a Moonshadow, Siggy and Amber and many others.