Fiction

Sasha Butler

Sasha Butler

Sasha Butler is a Birmingham based writer. Her first novel, The Marriage Contract will be published in 2025 and was shortlisted for the Cheshire…
Truly Johnston

Truly Johnston

Truly Johnston grew up in London and is mixed heritage Sri Lankan / English. She has a degree in English Literature from the University of…
Where There's Smoke

Cathy Cole

Cathy Cole is a novelist, prize-winning short story writer, and Pushcart nominated poet who lives, along with her husband and youngest son, in a…
Alien: Cult

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)…
The Taken Girls

G D Sanders

G D Sanders worked as a lab assistant in the research laboratory of a paper manufacturer. After gaining a BSc in Botany and Zoology, a second BSc…
Project Hanuman

Stewart Hotston

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

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…
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…
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…
Ollie George Clark

Ollie George Clark

Ollie has been writing since he was 18. From early (awful) sketches at university to upcoming (hopefully better) TV projects, he is an…
Steve Blackman

Steve Blackman

Steve grew up on a stony stretch of the south coast, nourished by a balanced diet of fantasy, sci-fi, horror and adventure. Surrounded as he was by…
Gorse

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…
A Ghost at the Door

Michael Dobbs

Michael Dobbs has never had a proper job - and now he’s a member of the House of Lords as Lord Dobbs of Wylye, perhaps he never will…He’s…
A Mother's Revenge

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…
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…
We Are All Ghosts In The Forest

Lorraine Wilson

A conservation scientist and third culture Scot, Lorraine Wilson (she/her) lives by the sea writing stories influenced by folklore and the…
The Cry

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…
A Swarm of Butterflies

Sarah Yarwood-Lovett

After spending sixteen years as an ecologist, crawling through undergrowth and studying nocturnal habits of animals (and people), Dr Sarah…
Butcher's Wood

Peter Guttridge

Peter Guttridge is a novelist, critic and chairperson/ interviewer at a wide range of literature festivals. A former Director of the Brighton…
The Christmas Stocking Murders

Denzil Meyrick

Denzil Meyrick was born in Glasgow and brought up in Campbeltown. After studying politics, he spent time as a police officer, freelance journalist,…
THE SEAL OF CONFESSION

Sven Hughes

Sven Hughes has worked at the heart of geostrategic influence for the past twenty years. As a prime ministerial and presidential advisor, and as a…
Jesse Aragon

Jesse Aragon

Jesse Aragon (she/her) grew up on a military base in Brussels, Belgium, studied psychology in Boulder, worked as an EMT in Albuquerque, and is now…
The Beauty Queen

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…
Ride the Wave

Katy Birchall

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

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…
Secrets and Lies

Quintin Jardine

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

L. M. Sagas

L.M. Sagas is an author of rowdy, adventurous science fiction and fantasy stories full of characters who live hard and fight harder. She writes to…
The Needfire

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…
Whisky Business

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,…
Mark of the Wicked

Georgia Bowers

Way, way more comfortable with fictional characters than real people, Georgia Bowers pledged her allegiance to Melvil Dewey (the Fairy Godfather of…
Jamie Cass

Jamie Cass

Jamie Cass is a historical fantasy writer from Oxford, England. Mad about fantasy, science-fiction, and crime, he can usually be found re-reading…
Cate Baumer

Cate Baumer

Cate Baumer (she/her) is a fantasy writer who lived half her life in Japan but currently resides on an Appalachian mountaintop and is occasionally…
A rather vengeful accord

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…
Benedict Anning

Benedict Anning

Benedict Anning is a Surrey-born author and short fiction writer living just outside of Edinburgh with his wonderful cat, Penny. After a stint in…
The Power in You

Rachaele Hambleton

Rachaele Hambleton, aka Part-Time Working Mummy, is a triple Sunday Times bestselling author and one of the most popular parenting personalities…
Don't Believe the Hype

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…
What to Do with Lobsters in a Place Like Klippiesfontein

Colette Victor

Colette Victor now lives in Belgium after being born in South Africa. She has written five novels, including a YA novel, Head Over Heart, which was…
VERGE

Nadia Attia

Nadia Attia comes from a working-class background, has Egyptian-German heritage and is a BFI NETWORK Talent Executive and author. Nadia’s debut…
The Sentence

Gautam Bhatia

Gautam Bhatia is an Indian SF writer, reviewer, and editor, based in New Delhi, India. He has previously written an SF duology, The Wall (2020) and…
Louise Jensen Duffy

Louise Jensen Duffy

Australian by nationality, Louise currently lives in beautiful Yorkshire, where she is at work on more historical fiction. To date she has written…
Stay in the light

A. M. Shine

A. M. Shine is an author of Literary Horror from the west of Ireland. It was there that at a young age he discovered a passion for classic horror…
The Choice

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…
Leave It To Fate

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…
Yes, Daddy!

Jovilee Burton

Jovilee Burton is a digital artist based in Central London. Passionate about female empowerment, her work depicts women of colour in their day to…
After the Storm

G D Wright

Gary joined Kent Police at the age of 18 and worked in a variety of uniformed roles before he was diagnosed with a life-limiting and incurable…
Black Rain

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;…
The Unseelie Prince

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…
When Sally Killed Harry

Lucy Nichol

Lucy Nichol is a writer with a passion for mental health awareness, music, comedy, and nostalgia. Her second novel, Parklife, delves into…
A Thief's Blood

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,…
Justine Hardy

Justine Hardy

Justine Hardy is the author of six books, both fiction and non-fiction, all of which draw on the thirty years that she has spent living and working…
A.S. Tamaki

A.S. Tamaki

Alex / A.S. Tamaki is a novelist and screenwriter from Los Angeles, where he grew up climbing trees in the Santa Monica mountains and making short…
The Winter Child

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…
The Final Orchard

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…
The Mother Load

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…
Those Fatal Flowers

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…
Finding Peggy: A Glasgow Childhood

Meg Henderson

Meg Henderson was born in the Townhead area of Glasgow in 1948, the youngest and only girl of three children. thereafter, she lived in the…
Like Mother, Like Daughter

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…
Clean Point

Meg Jones

Meg Jones is a Scottish romance author who took beginners tennis lessons (two entire blocks and was still the worst in her class) twelve years ago…
The Phoenix Keeper

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…
Love at First Sight

Jessica Gilmore

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

Bitter Karella

Bitter Karella is a genderfluid goblin from Maryland, best known as the creator of the Hugo-nominated microfiction comedy account @Midnight_Pals…
The Good Mayor

Andrew Nicoll

After a brief stint as a lumberjack, Andrew Nicoll has spent his working life as a newspaper journalist. He has had short stories published in New…
Monumenta

Lara Haworth

Lara Haworth is a queer writer, filmmaker and a political researcher, specialising in the UK’s move to become carbon zero by 2050. Having turned…
Night Shift

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…
The Lost Children

Theresa Talbot

Theresa Talbot is a BBC Radio Scotland broadcaster – best known as the voice of traffic and travel and the former host of the Beechgrove Potting…
The Uninvited Guest

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…
Fragile Animals

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…