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Nick Place (born April 4, 1965) in Melbourne, Victoria is an Australian journalist and children's author. His novels are set in his hometown of Melbourne and his second home, Lorne on Victoria's south coast.

Biography
Nick Place grew up in Burwood in Melbourne's suburbs. He spent many summers of his youth riding his bike around the coastal town of Lorne, on Victoria's Great Ocean Road, pretending to fight superheros and wishing he had a surfboard like his older sister.

He has four novels published in Australia and overseas, mainly aimed at teenage or pre-teen audiences.

He has two sons, a dog (Fly Dog The Magnificent – see Thanks A Kazillion) and a pretty sweet life. He enjoys surfing, scuba, boxing, reading, coffee on Brunswick Street in Fitzroy, street art, the Ocean Road, his Karmann Ghia, whales, dolphins and singing badly.

He is a long suffering fan of the Richmond Football club. An avid ice hockey player, Nick also a keen supporter of the Detroit Red Wings.

Career
Nick began his journalist career as a copyboy at The Herald newspaper in Melbourne. His journalistic career has had him covering news, sport, moon rocks and crime scenes. His sports writing career has had him covering Wimbledon, boxing, triathlon, surfing, field hockey and of course, the AFL.

He has written, produced and created a variety of television programs ranging from children's programs, comedy sketch shows and AFL sports shows, for free to air, commercial and paid networks.

He wrote a musical stage comedy, "Footy Castaways", which sold out at Melbourne's Last Laugh theatre, in 1995, and starred Eric Bana, Lisa McCune, Julia Morris, and a swag of AFL stars.

His short film, The Cook, was screened at the Rhode Island Film Festival in 2003.

In 1998 Nick began Media Giants with business partner Michael Roberts. Media Giants is a content production company specialising in original content, publishing and editorial management, leveraging the vast media and journalism careers of its founders.

In 2004 Nick founded Little Big Shots, Australia's only stand-alone international film festival for children. Little Big Shots began in Melbourne, Australia and now runs in Sydney, Adelaide and in regional centres in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.