Authors

Emily Schofield

Emily Schofield

Emily Schofield is an illustrator based in Manchester who loves all things nature. While her use of collage dominates her practice, she loves to…
Bia Melo

Bia Melo

Bia is a Brazilian-born illustrator and author based in East London. She was the recipient of the prestigious The Queen Elizabeth Trust scholarship…
Danielle Knight

Danielle Knight

Danielle Knight is of mixed white and Afro-Caribbean descent, grew up in Surrey, and currently works in digital sales for Scholastic. Danielle has…
Nancy Peach

Nancy Peach

Nancy Peach is a writer of commercial women’s fiction, a mother of three, and an owner of various ridiculous-looking pets including a splodgy…
Mahmud el Sayed

Mahmud el Sayed

Mahmud El Sayed is a British-Egyptian SFF writer and translator. He lives in East London where he spends his time pondering linguistic oddities and…
Daniel Mohabbatein

Daniel Mohabbatein

Daniel Mohabbatein is an author, based in the United States, writing primarily in the Children’s Fiction space (both in verse and prose). He’s…
Allison Mick

Allison Mick

Allison Mick is a Los Angeles-based writer, comedian, and animation producer from the Great Lakes. She draws from her upbringing and personal…
NJ Barker

NJ Barker

NJ Barker first started writing books when he was eight, but he took his time before completing his first thriller some forty years later. He…
S. A. MacLean

S. A. MacLean

S. A. MacLean is a fantasy romance author from sunny Southern California. Infatuated with magical worlds since her days of brewing mud potions in…
Stewart Hotson

Stewart Hotson

Stewart Hotston lives in Reading, UK. With a Celtic-Indian mother and a father of North African/Roma descent, Stewart is a somewhat confused…
MK Hardy

MK Hardy

MK Hardy is the pen name for Morag Hannah and Erin Hardee, two geeky women living and writing together in Scotland. With backgrounds ranging from…
Genevieve Jagger

Genevieve Jagger

Genevieve Jagger is a queer writer and witch from Scotland. She co-edits for Witch Craft Magazine where she is currently working to develop an…
Agnes Monod-Gayraud and Lorna White

Agnes Monod-Gayraud and Lorna White

Agnes Monod-Gayraud is an author and translator, with a focus on non-fiction titles rooted in science, nature, art and foklore. Winner of the 2017…
Quintin Jardine

Quintin Jardine

Quintin Jardine is the author of three much-acclaimed and best-selling series of detective novels: Bob Skinner, Oz Blackstone and Primavera…
Jessica Gilmore

Jessica Gilmore

Jessica Gilmore has written over 30 published books. After starting her career with Waterstones, she spent several years in marketing before moving…
Elliot Fletcher

Elliot Fletcher

Elliot Fletcher resides in her too-small flat in Edinburgh, Scotland, with her husband, cat and dog. When she isn’t writing about swoon-worthy,…
Sally-Anne Martyn

Sally-Anne Martyn

Sally-Anne grew up in a small village just outside Sheffield. Much to her parents’ disappointment, at 16 years old Sally-Anne left a promising…
Rachel Cullen

Rachel Cullen

Rachel Cullen is a writer, blogger, author and runner. She is also a reformed ex-commercial litigation solicitor. Amongst other things, she has…
Liza Frank

Liza Frank

Liza Frank grew up watching B-movies and dreaming of being Chrissie Hynde before working backstage in theatre and film for over a decade. She has…
Iona Campbell

Iona Campbell

Having grown up in The Netherlands, Iona is a Scottish-born London-based author and illustrator who is greatly inspired by the magic of everyday…
Shirley Ballas

Shirley Ballas

Shirley Ballas has enjoyed a spectacular dance career spanning more than 40 years – she has Cha-Cha’d her way across the world’s dance floors…
Robert Tregoning

Robert Tregoning

Robert studied at the Glasgow School of Art before leaping in to a career on the West End stage. He has appeared in shows including Charlie and the…
S.D. Robertson

S.D. Robertson

Former journalist S.D. Robertson is a USA Today and #1 Kindle bestseller. He quit his role as a local newspaper editor to pursue a lifelong…
Ruby Speechley

Ruby Speechley

Ruby Speechley, graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in 2009, with an MA in Creative Writing. She is a Faber Academy alumna and prolific…
Carly Schabowski

Carly Schabowski

Carly Schabowski worked as a journalist in both North Cyprus and Australia before returning to Oxford, where she studied for an MA and then a PhD…
Sarah Yarwood-Lovett

Sarah Yarwood-Lovett

After spending sixteen years as an ecologist, crawling through undergrowth and studying nocturnal habits of animals (and people), Dr Sarah…
Sumana Seeboruth

Sumana Seeboruth

Debut author Sumana Seeboruth lives in London with her husband and two young children. She works in the City and writes children’s book inspired…
Lucy Nichol

Lucy Nichol

Lucy Nichol is a writer with a passion for mental health awareness, music, comedy, and nostalgia. Her second novel, Parklife, delves into…
Ben Manley

Ben Manley

Ben is a writer and designer. His work is full of humour and heart with a touch of the gothic – as weird and wonderful as an atticful of vampire…
Judy Wise

Judy Wise

Judy lived in many different places growing up – picking up LOTS of accents along the way. A lover of everything from ballroom dancing to…
Annie Frost Nicholson

Annie Frost Nicholson

Annie Frost Nicholson is a London-based author and multidisciplinary artist whose work seeks to smash taboos around the nuanced complexities of the…
Dawn Goodwin

Dawn Goodwin

Dawn Goodwin’s twenty-year career has spanned PR, advertising and publishing, both in London and Johannesburg. A graduate of the Curtis Brown…
Rachaele Hambleton

Rachaele Hambleton

Rachaele Hambleton, aka Part-Time Working Mummy, is a triple Sunday Times bestselling author and one of the most popular parenting personalities…
Karen McDonald

Karen McDonald

Scottish author and artist Karen McDonald has enjoyed publishing success with short stories for adults and an educational book. Karen believes that…
Erica Davies

Erica Davies

Erica is a former fashion editor, who once created the fashion pages for the UK’s biggest-selling newspapers and magazines. She was Fleet…
Nadia Attia

Nadia Attia

Nadia Attia’s debut novel Verge – a folk horror-tinged road trip across a divided, alternate Britain where people have returned to the old ways…
Poppy T. Perry

Poppy T. Perry

As an individual fuelled on caffeine, high BMP tunes and nervous energy, Poppy (she/her) is a magnet to anything fast-paced and playful. She…
Douglas Skelton

Douglas Skelton

Douglas Skelton has published 12 non fiction books and eight crime thrillers. He has been a bank clerk, tax officer, shelf stacker, meat porter,…
Matthew Fox

Matthew Fox

Matthew’s debut middle grade novel, The Sky Over Rebecca, which won the Bath Children’s Novel Award in 2019 was published in April 2022 by…
Professor Stephanie Snow

Professor Stephanie Snow

Professor Snow is based at the University of Manchester and is the Project director of the NHS at 70 which since 2017 - supported by the National…
Daisy Upton

Daisy Upton

Daisy Upton aka Five Minute Mum is a Londoner who now lives in Cheshire with her husband and two children. After years of working in sports…
Alex Kane

Alex Kane

Alex Kane is from a small village just outside Glasgow. She grew up around books, her mum always reading the latest crime thriller. She began…
CJ Rivera

CJ Rivera

CJ Rivera is an adult dystopian author navigating the realms of high-tech turmoil and stark reality. She is crafting tales that wrestle with…
Elle McNicoll

Elle McNicoll

Elle is a Scottish and Neurodivergent writer, happily living in London. She graduated with a first in Creative Writing and has worked as a…
Katy Cox

Katy Cox

Katy is a professional cellist and has performed alongside artists including Michael Bublé, Elton John and Take That. Alongside this, Katy is a…
Tasha Harrison

Tasha Harrison

At the age of 17, Tasha Harrison reduced her mother to tears (of laughter) by reading out loud her diary entry from the weekend of her aunt’s…
Em Cosh

Em Cosh

Em Cosh (they/them) is an illustrator and writer living in Margate, UK. They grew up on a small farm in Shropshire which inspired a love of nature…
Forest Xiao

Forest Xiao

Forest Xiao is an image maker, storyteller, treasure finder, and new mother. She has lived in China, Germany, USA, UK, and Malaysia, which…
Richard Pickard

Richard Pickard

Richard has always loved spending time by the sea. Although he grew up in Hertfordshire his grandparents live on the south coast, in Sussex and…
Jenny Ireland

Jenny Ireland

Jenny Ireland is a Young Adult author who lives outside Belfast with her husband, two bad children and very good collie (or good children and bad…
Natalie Lewis

Natalie Lewis

Natalie Lewis was a leading fashion pr for three decades. As an agency owner she launched brands including net-a-porter and Jimmy Choo before going…
Sophie McCartney

Sophie McCartney

Sophie McCartney, aka Tired ’N Tested, is a 30-something parenting vlogger turned viral ‘comedimum’. Propelled towards internet stardom in…
Sam K. Horton

Sam K. Horton

An author of literary fantasy, Sam lives above the moor in North Cornwall, and draws on its wild landscape, wide skies, and windblown folklore for…
Shannon Ives

Shannon Ives

Shannon Ives is a horror and dark historical fantasy author writing from the deep, dark woods of Vermont. She graduated with honors from the…
Summer Quigley

Summer Quigley

Summer is a Hampshire writer who loves to write books about family, friendship and animals to make children smile and laugh. She loves to escape…
Gen Glaister

Gen Glaister

Whilst her friends left university to follow careers in business and law, Gen Glaister had been set on becoming a prison officer since she was 15.…
Kathryn Ann Kingsley

Kathryn Ann Kingsley

As a USA Today Bestselling Author and award-winning designer, Kat has always been a storyteller. She delights in spinning stories of the sweetest…
Eleanor Mills

Eleanor Mills

Eleanor Mills is a journalist, diversity campaigner and entrepreneur. She is the Founder and Editor in Chief of noon.org.uk a new platform for…
Javier Nicholas

Javier Nicholas

Javier Nicholas is a writer of British-Ghanaian heritage who found his passion for storytelling at an early age. Born and bred in South London, he…
Tamsin Mori

Tamsin Mori

Tamsin had a nomadic childhood (eight different schools!), but the one place that always felt like home was Shetland, her mother’s homeland.…
Katy Birchall

Katy Birchall

After attending Woldingham school in Surrey, Katy Birchall went to Manchester University where she received a first-class degree in English…
Professor Averil Mansfield

Professor Averil Mansfield

Born and educated in Blackpool and then Liverpool University, Averil knew she wanted to be a surgeon from the age of 8. She trained to be a surgeon…
Kenechi Udogu

Kenechi Udogu

Kenechi is a Nigerian-born London-based writer and architect whose work centres on culturally diverse characters, particularly female protagonists…
Tom Tinn-Disbury

Tom Tinn-Disbury

When Tom studied animation at university, he realised that the best part of the process was writing stories and drawing characters and not…
Bitter Karella

Bitter Karella

Bitter Karella is a genderfluid goblin from Maryland, best known as the creator of the Hugo-nominated microfiction comedy account @Midnight_Pals…
Gavin G. Smith

Gavin G. Smith

Gavin Smith is the author and co/author of 14 books, a couple of novellas and multiple short stories. His books include (but are not limited to)…
 Patrick Galbraith

Patrick Galbraith

As a small child Patrick Galbraith spent long afternoons irritating the local fishmonger by asking again to be shown the crabs. When he became a…
Fiona Thomas

Fiona Thomas

Fiona Thomas is a freelance writer who was born in Glasgow but is now living in Birmingham, UK. Since starting her mental health blog in 2012 she…
Jenni Spangler

Jenni Spangler

Theatre school dropout, ex-999 operator and occasional forklift driver, Jenni writes children’s books with a magical twist. She loves to take…
Sarah J. Daley

Sarah J. Daley

Sarah J. Daley is a former chef who lives and writes in the Chicago Metropolitan area with her husband, son and very fat cat. She earned a degree…
Holly Ryan

Holly Ryan

Holly grew up in a little Cornish fishing village where she spent most of her childhood exploring rock pools. She completed a degree in fashion but…
Donna Freed

Donna Freed

Donna has written the story of her life - an extraordinary memoir of adoption and motherhood set against the backdrop of one of the biggest true…
Anita Sivakumaran

Anita Sivakumaran

Anita Sivakumaran holds an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing from the Universities of Lancaster and Leicester. Her novel The Queen (New Delhi;…
Jeevani Charika

Jeevani Charika

Jeevani* writes multicultural women’s fiction. She was born in the South of England, but spent much of her childhood in Sri Lanka, with short…
Georgia Cowley

Georgia Cowley

Having previously studied Child Development, Georgia takes inspiration from her work supporting children and young people struggling with learning…
Elle Wright

Elle Wright

Elle Wright is a wife, mother, home-maker and lover of interiors. After an admittedly easy pregnancy - her scans went well, she and her baby were…
Katy Birchall

Katy Birchall

After attending Woldingham school in Surrey, Katy Birchall went to Manchester University where she received a first-class degree in English…
Tyrone Brennand

Tyrone Brennand

Tyrone is a certified yoga teacher, level 3 personal trainer and a pre and post-natal personal trainer. Tyrone launched his personal training…
Shakaila Forbes-Bell

Shakaila Forbes-Bell

Shakaila Forbes-Bell is a published Fashion Psychologist, consultant, experienced marketer, writer and founder of ‘Fashion is Psychology’ a…
Charles Spicer

Charles Spicer

Charles Spicer is a Suffolk-based historian with an MA from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from the University of London. Following a thirty…
Nick Smith

Nick Smith

Nick Smith worked as a locum doctor for eighteen months in London before being accepted onto a PGCE in Science at London University’s Institute…
Milly Evans

Milly Evans

Milly Evans is a journalist and sex educator who has been campaigning for a more inclusive and comprehensive sex-education curriculum since 2016.…
Emily Kenny

Emily Kenny

Emily Kenny has loved books for as long as she can remember. As a child, she could usually be found writing stories or reading children’s…
Kids Against Plastic

Kids Against Plastic

Amy and Ella Meek (15 and 13 years old) founded their campaign and charity, Kids Against Plastic, in 2016 after learning about the UN’s Global…
SJ Ford

SJ Ford

SJ Ford is twenty-eight years old and lives in the Cheshire countryside. She currently works in online marketing and writes part-time – gathering…
Ross MacKay

Ross MacKay

Ross MacKay lives in the village of Aberdour in Scotland with his wife and young son, Noah. In 2020, Ross was the recipient of the William Soutar…
Josh Roberts

Josh Roberts

Josh Roberts is a 30-year-old writer, podcaster, part-qualified accountant, failed management consultant, underwhelming advertising salesman, even…
Clare Fennell

Clare Fennell

Having left university with an illustration degree, Clare worked as a designer and studio manager in the greetings card industry for fifteen years.…
Ashley Stokes

Ashley Stokes

Ashley Stokes is an author of literary horror and comedy from the east of England. Originally from Carshalton in Surrey, it was there that he was…
Black Girls Book Club

Black Girls Book Club

Melissa Cummings-Quarry & Natalie A Carter are the co-founders of the London based Black Girls Book Club. It is currently touted as the premier…
Jo Love

Jo Love

Jo Love is an award-winning mental health advocate, speaker, writer and podcaster, she uses her platform to break the silence on mental health…
Josh Berry

Josh Berry

Josh Berry is a stand-up comedian, satirist, writer, content creator/producer and impressionist. Josh started his career in comedy with great…
Tova Leigh

Tova Leigh

Originally from Israel, after studying Law Tova moved to the UK in 2006 to pursue a career in acting. With an MA in performing arts and a diploma…
Liv Thorne

Liv Thorne

Liv Thorne is a full time working business owner, mum to her son Herb and creator of the popular blog and Instagram account Livs Alone. Her debut…
Paula McGuire

Paula McGuire

Paula McGuire is an adventurer, motivational speaker, author and life coach – but above all, she’s a trier. After 30 years of surviving with…
Jessica Wilson

Jessica Wilson

Jessica Wilson, author of Sofia the Dreamer and Her Magical Afro, was trained at UCL and Cambridge University. Jessica is a writer of Jamaican and…
Lucy Griffiths

Lucy Griffiths

Lucy Griffiths is a passive income strategist and coach for entrepreneurs who swapped reporting in conflict zones for course creation and built a…
Lucy Lewis

Lucy Lewis

Lucy Lewis joined the Army on the spur of the moment and after training at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst was chosen in 1989 to become the…
Beth Corby

Beth Corby

Beth Corby began life in a small Welsh mining village, and pursued her interest in music through to a PhD. Finding academic writing too…