As a lover of children's stories, and collector of children's books, Ms Sarah said she visits schools around the country to help inspire children's creativity.

"Authors, we have the power to do extraordinary things," she said.

"I still go to the schools and I go in and teach those kids how to write, I teach them about illustration and how to plan a book, I teach them how to act out their stories. Each class is a lesson.

"I always say to them don't fret, write it down, you never know when you're going to use it.

"I've had a lot of fun with that."

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Since August 2011, Ms Sarah has produced 16 books, selling thousands of copies throughout Australia.

Ms Sarah was in town to promote her two new books My Mate Old Tom and Shaken not Stirred.

My Mate ... Old Tom is the first published children's book, telling the tale of the coastal NSW town of Eden's most famous killer whale, old Tom.

Ms Sarah transformed the unique story about the interaction between the pod of Orcas in Twofold Bay during the 1800s with the Yuin people and the whalers.

"It's written using the perspective of what the killer whales thought about Tom, what the whalers thought about Tom, what the Aboriginal people thought about Tom, what a little girl part of a whaling family thought about Tom," she said.

"So that was a special one."

The second new release Shaken not Stirred is a spy novel, and an idea that came to her one morning during breakfast in an Eden cafe.

"I was having a coffee, reading the paper when I saw an ad that read 'ASIO looking for spies'. My imagination was immediately sparked," Ms Sarah said.

"But it wasn't until two weeks later when sitting in the cafe again, I came across another ad. This time asking for spy tradies. That was it, I was hooked."

Ms Sarah said the spy novel, set in Eden about a couple of senior citizens who take a new lease on life as spies, is just the first of what will be a series of three.

For those aged 8 to 80, the novel also draws in children who are written in to the story to help the seniors work their equipment.

"Old people are hopeless with gadgets, all that spy gadgetry they won't know how to work it, they need kids to help them. Two eight year old grandchildren help them," she said.