Steve Cole was born in Bedfordshire in 1997 and spent a happy childhood being both loud and amusing to all that knew him. He went to the University of East Anglia, had a brief stint working with Radio Bedfordshire and worked at BBC Children’s Magazines in 1993.
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Richelle Mead, author of Vampire Academy, is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of urban fantasy books for both adults and teens. A life-long reader, Richelle has always had a particular fascination with mythology and folklore and can’t tear herself away from books (either reading or writing them).
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The award winning author Ari Berk, who was born and raised in California, now lives in Michigan where he is Professor of English at Central Michigan University. Ari has studied at Oxford and travelled widely, making friends in many parts of the world.
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Children's writer and storyteller Penny Dolan loves dreaming up all sorts of characters in her head, acting them out within the words of her writing, as well as sharing stories with children and young people on her many school visits.
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Cathy Cassidy went to Art College in Liverpool, then got a job as fiction editor on the legendary ‘Jackie’ magazine. For 12 years she was the agony aunt for teen magazine ‘Shout’, as well as teaching art in primary and secondary schools.
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Chris has written many books for children and young adults, both fiction and non-fiction and has been nominated for many awards including the Edgar Awards, the UKLA Children's Book Award and the Carnegie Medal. In recent years he has predominantly been writing horror.
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Rupert Kingfisher is author of the acclaimed Madame Pamplemousse series. The first book, 'Madame Pamplemousse and her Incredible Edibles' was nominated for several prizes including the Branford Boase Award. He also loves American horror comics and French cartoon books such as Asterix and Tintin. It was on a family holiday to Paris that he visited a bookshop dedicated to books such as Tintin.
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Knife and Packer are an author-illustrator team who bring a distinctive sense of style and humour to fiction and non-fiction. For children, they have created the Captain Fact series, as well as several other books and their cartoon strip ‘It’s Grim Up North London’ regularly appears in Private Eye.
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Linda Chapman is the author of many books including ‘My Secret Unicorn’, ‘Stardust’, ‘Not Quite a Mermaid', ‘Unicorn School,’ ‘Sky Horses’ and ‘Skating School’ series.
When she is not writing she spends her time visiting schools and libraries to talk about writing, seeing her friends, looking after her family, reading - and of course riding whenever she can.
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David Whitley
At the age of seventeen David was shortlisted for the Kathleen Fidler Award for a children’s novel and at twenty he won the Cheshire Prize for Literature for a children’s short story. In 2009 he published his debut, 'The Midnight Charter', which sold in 18 countries and 12 languages around the world.
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Kevin Brooks
Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter and studied in Birmingham and London. He had a varied working life, with jobs in a crematorium, a zoo, a garage and a post office, before - happily - giving it all up to write books. Kevin is the author of 'Being', 'Black Rabbit Summer', 'Killing God' and 'iBoy for Puffin'.
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