Clio Gray
Clio Gray has won many awards for her writing, including the Harry Bowling First Novel Award. She has been Man Booker Nominated, Long Listed for the Baileys, and Short Listed for the Cinnamon Prize. Born in Yorkshire, she spent her later childhood in Devon before returning to Yorkshire to go to university, after which she ended up in Scotland. For the past thirty years she has lived in the Highlands where she intends to remain.
Gray eschewed the usual route of marriage, mortgage, children, and instead spent her working life in libraries, filling her home with books and sharing that home with her dogs.
When she gets a few days off you can find her in her campervan scooting around the lesser known areas of Scotland and the Highlands that haven
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With a father who served in the US Military, Lexy had a wandering lifestyle from her earliest days and in her time has been a pop musician, a science geek and a writer for magazines like Bonjour Paris and Playtimes. Throughout all of her different careers, her love of fiction has been a mainstay.
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Linktree: leonconradstory.
He is Founder of The Unknown Storyteller Project (www.leonconrad.com), Founder and Lead Tutor at The Traditional Tutor (www.traditionaltutor.co.uk), Co-Founder and Lead Trainer at The Academy of Oratory (www.academyoforatory.com), and Affiliate at the Next Society Institute (www.nextsocietyinstitute.com). He teaches historic needlework technique and publishes through his embroidery business, -
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He has worked most of his life in sales but has always had an interest in Arts and Humanities. Things that are beautiful and appealing play an essential part in his imagination.
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M. Laszlo has lived and worked all over the world, and he has kept exhaustive journals and idea books corresponding to each location and post.
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Jo obtained a degree in Building Surveying from the University of Greenwich and then went on to specialise in research in construction and development, gaining her PhD in 2001. Jo still runs a successful research consultancy and writes her novels in every spare moment she has.
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Roxan Burley
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Eva Asprakis
Novelist Eva Asprakis is the author of Thirty-Eight Days of Rain, which won the 2024 Ink Book Prize for Fiction. Upon its release in March 2024, the novel was named a NetGalley Book of the Month, an IndieReader Approved and Best Reviewed Book, and a Reedsy Discovery Featured Recommendation. It was also a NoMo Book Club Pick. Eva's debut novel, Love and Only Water, was published in September 2022. Her third novel, Ghost Flight, followed in May 2025, earning a ‘GET IT’ Verdict from Kirkus Reviews who call the story ‘a sharp and well-observed portrait of lives at the crossroads’. In August 2025, both Ghost Flight and Thirty-Eight Days of Rain received Honorable Mentions at the New York Book Festival Awards.
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Daney Parker
When I am not eating chocolate, or even when I am, I spend a lot of time writing, but more time watching TV obvs.
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I am the mother of two incredibly talented and good-looking (not that that matters of course) grown up children who think I am deluded. I am also a forgetful wife - my husband thinks I sometimes forget he exists.
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Thomas R. Weaver
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Aside from writing, I’m a tech entrepreneur. My last startup was acquired by Just Eat Takeaway; my new one is still in stealth but backed by a major Silicon Valley tech accelerator. I also invest in multiple early-stage startups.
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Kenneth Evren
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A Body of Fates, Kenneth Evren’s first novel is inspired by a personal, real-life tragedy. Using bits and pieces of lived experience, he has fashioned a gorgeous, intriguing and inspiring metaphysical mosaic of one family’s multigenerational history. Ken lives in Vancouver, B.C. with his family. He enjoys the ineffable in story, music, science, and love. -
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Ringside Gamble is her first novel.
Clarke was the recipient of the 2014 La Salle Incubator Fund Award and steered the advisory practice of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. A former advisor to the board of the Substation, Singapore, a leading contemporary arts platform, she has curated conferences and exhibitions in the visual arts and poetry. Clarke taught Central Asia Art History at the La Salle (University of Arts, Singapore).
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From the beginning of my life I have been moved from home to home, from Switzerland to London and from there into a number of different family homes. the various parental figures who each fed me differently formulated the relational significance and personal sensation of being fed on an emotional as well as physical level. As I grew up, being active in the kitchen would be the one place I felt safe and at home, playing with ingredients as extensions of my personality and powering my stability, creativity and appetite for life. Here I could feel worries and confusion slip away as I let a good sauce and chopping zesty ingredients engage my mind, body and spirit on a joint task. When people's noses began leading them to my kitchen, I realised
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J.D. Redvale
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Kenneth Evren
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A Body of Fates, Kenneth Evren’s first novel is inspired by a personal, real-life tragedy. Using bits and pieces of lived experience, he has fashioned a gorgeous, intriguing and inspiring metaphysical mosaic of one family’s multigenerational history. Ken lives in Vancouver, B.C. with his family. He enjoys the ineffable in story, music, science, and love.