Phil Hickes
I live in Oregon at the moment, though I hail from the UK. Growing up in a house overlooking a graveyard, on the edge of the bleak and foreboding Pennine Hills, seems to have instilled in me an obsession with all things dark and spooky. The complete Aveline Jones trilogy is available at all good bookstores and has been, or will be, translated into Spanish, German, Czech, French, Turkish, Polish and Russian. My latest effort is called Shadowhall Academy and follows the spooky adventures of the Aunt Lilian character from the Aveline books as a young girl in the 1980s. I also have a dyslexia-friendly ghost story coming out with Barrington Stoke at Halloween this year.
Favourite authors include Robert Aickman, Stephen King (his early stuff), M
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R.L. LaFevers
R.L. LaFevers (Robin Lorraine when she’s in really big trouble) grew up surrounded by shelves of old dusty books and a passel of brothers. She has also spent a large portion of her life being told she was making up things that weren’t there, which only proves she was destined to write fiction. She is the author of over fourteen books for young readers, including THEODOSIA AND THE SERPENTS OF CHAOS, (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) which received starred reviews and was a Junior Library Guild selection, a Booksense Summer Pick, and nominated for the Malice Domestic’s Agatha Award, and the NATHANIEL FLUDD, BEASTOLOGIST series. R.L. also writes the His Fair Assassin books using her full name, Robin LaFevers, but cannot get Goodreads to link the two, s
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Milena Wójtowicz
Polska pisarka, autorka, tłumaczka fantastyki. Absolwentka socjologii na UMCSie w Lublinie.
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Debiutowała opowiadaniem Bardzo Czarna Dziura na łamach czasopisma internetowego Esensja. Debiutem papierowym autorki było opowiadanie Wielka wyprawa małej Żaby, które pojawiło się na łamach czasopisma Science Fiction. Swoją pierwszą powieść, Podatek, autorka zaczęła pisać po pierwszym roku studiów w trakcie trwania sesji egzaminacyjnej, a wydała za pośrednictwem wydawnictwa Fabryka Słów w roku 2005. -
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Lekarka, absolwentka Warszawskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego. Debiutancką powieść Wilk napisała w wieku piętnastu lat, a wydała trzy lata później (2006). W 2009 roku ukazała się kontynuacja tej książki - Wilczyca. Autorka została za nią nominowana do nagrody Nautilus, przyznawanej przez czytelników w corocznym plebiscycie na najlepszy polski utwór literacki z gatunku fantastyki. Wilczyca zdobyła w nim piąte miejsce. W Wydawnictwie W.A.B. pisarka opublikowała trylogię, na którą składają się powieści: Ja, diablica (2010), Ja, anielica (2011) oraz Ja, potępiona (2012).
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Aneta Jadowska
Aneta Jadowska przyszła na świat w Radomsku, w 1981 roku. Pierwsze opowiadanie opublikowała w wieku dziewiętnastu lat, w lokalnej gazecie. Jej debiut powieściowy nastąpił w 2012, gdy ukazał się Złodziej Dusz, pierwszy tom planowanej heksalogii.
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Paulina Hendel
Absolwentka filologii angielskiej na Uniwersytecie Gdańskim. Od kilku lat pisze opowiadania do prasy kobiecej. Interesuje się polską literaturą fantastyczną i przygodową, a także twórczością Terry’ego Pratchetta. W czasie wolnym zajmuje się rekonstrukcją historyczną.
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M.G. Leonard
M. G. Leonard is a writer of books, poems and screenplays. She has a first-class honours degree in English literature and an MA in Shakespeare Studies from Kings College London. She works as a freelance Digital Media Producer for clients such as the National Theatre, and Harry Potter West End, and previously worked as a Senior Digital Producer at the National Theatre, the Royal Opera House and Shakespeare’s Globe. She spent her early career in the music industry running Setanta Records, an independent record label, and managing bands, most notably The Divine Comedy. After leaving the music industry, she trained as an actor, dabbling in directing and producing as well as performing, before deciding to write her stories down. Maya lives in Br
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Magdalena Kubasiewicz
Absolwentka Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Autorka książek fantastycznych i kryminałów. Należy do Hardej Hordy, grupy zrzeszającej kilkanaście pisarek fantastyki. W 2021 roku nominowana do Nagrody Zajdla za opowiadanie „Sen nocy miejskiej” („Harde Baśnie”), którego akcja dzieje się w uniwersum „Kołysanki dla czarownicy”.
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Pádraig Kenny
Pádraig Kenny is an Irish writer who hails from Newbridge in County Kildare.
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His debut novel Tin was published in 2018 and was Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month. It has been nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and several other awards.
His second novel Pog was published in April 2019 and was Independent Bookseller's Book of the Month.
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Agata Romaniuk
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Anne Elvedal
Anne Elvedal er en av landets mest ettertraktede manusforfattere innen TV og film. Hun har skrevet manus til tre Amanda-nominerte spillefilmer (Børning 2, Kutoppen og Elias og jakten på havets gull) og tv-seriene Twin og Wisting har høstet gode kritikker og blitt solgt til flere land. Anne Elvedal debuterer nå som skjønnlitterær forfatter med ungdomstrilogien Dødens spill.
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Mika Modrzyńska
Mika Modrzyńska jest autorką bloga, pisarką, a przede wszystkim zapaloną podróżniczką. Sama pisze o sobie „jestem profesjonalnym poszukiwaczem magii, miłośniczką chmur i przeogromną fanką lodówek, a raczej ich zawartości. Moim życiowym celem jest znalezienie szczęścia. Och, i zostanie pisarką. Bestsellerową pisarką, tak gdzieś na półce z J.K. Rowling”.
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Autorka urodziła się w roku 1994, pochodzi z małej wioski na Mazurach. Studiowała lingwistykę stosowaną (spec. angielski i rosyjski) na UKW w Bydgoszczy. Uwielbia uczyć się języków obcych, co prawdopodobnie wiąże się z jej miłością do podróżowania. Mika po raz pierwszy wyjechała za granicę w 2016 – na wymianę studencką do Niemiec. Od tamtej pory jest w ciągłym ruchu. Mieszkała także w Portugal -
Lesley Parr
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Joanna W. Gajzler
Autorka nominowanej do Nagrody Fandomu Polskiego im. Janusza A. Zajdla powieści Bóg Maszyna. Studiowała twórcze pisanie na Uniwersytecie Łódzkim i szlifowała warsztat ponad dwie dekady, by móc kiedyś podzielić się owocami swojej wyobraźni. Zagubiona w fantastycznych światach, czy to z książek, filmów, gier fabularnych, czy też własnych. Z zawodu technik weterynarii, nie wyobraża sobie życia bez tworzenia, herbaty i co najmniej trzech gatunków zwierząt w domu.
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Ravena Guron
A born and bred Londoner, Ravena writes MG and YA, usually featuring antiheroines or snarky narrators. She is a lawyer with a degree in biochemistry, and hopes to use the knowledge gained from her experiences to plot her books, whether that's wild MG fantasy adventures, or twisty YA murder-mysteries.
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Aleksandra Okońska
Urodzona w Międzynarodowy Dzień Pisarzy i Pisarek powzięła to sobie za wróżbę. Dzień zaczyna od potężnej dawki Earl Greya, żeby choć trochę rozbudzić wewnętrznego leniwca. Na życie zarabia klikaniem w klawiaturę, bo za mizianie piesków nie płacą. Czas wolny spędza z nosem w popkulturze albo poszerzając wiedzę o demonach z różnych zakątków świata. Licencja na czarowanie to jej literacki debiut.
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J.A. White
J. A. White lives in New Jersey with his wife, three sons, and a hamster named Ophelia that doesn’t like him very much. When he’s not making up stories, he teaches a bunch of kids how to make up stories (along with math and science and other important stuff). He wishes dragons were real because it would be a much cooler way to get to work.
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Melanie Barnes
Melanie Barnes is the writer and photographer behind the blog Geoffrey and Grace—a home for slow and simple living. With more than fifteen years' experience in movement and well-being, she is a trained yoga and meditation teacher, and massage therapist. She has always been guided by her body and is always looking for ways to be present and truly connected. Becoming a mother inspired her to look at her life and purpose, which is when she discovered slow living.
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She shares advice on slow and simple living via her blog, ebooks, and slow-living retreats, and her work has been featured in the magazines Project Calm, Reclaimed, Country Home & Interiors, and Simple Things . She has collaborated with a number of well-known international brands, incl -
Matt McMann
As a professional musician, MATT MCMANN played an NFL stadium, a cruise ship, and the International Twins Convention. Now he writes the kind of spooky mystery-adventure books he loved as a kid. He’s hiked the Pacific Northwest, cruised Loch Ness, and chased a ghost on a mountain. While he missed Bigfoot and Nessie, he caught the ghost. He enjoys brainstorming new books with his wife, New York Times bestselling author Lisa McMann; viewing his son Kilian McMann’s artwork; and watching his daughter, actor Kennedy McMann, on television. Visit him online at mattmcmann.com, and follow him on Twitter and Instagram @matt_mcmann.
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Radhika Sanghani
I'm an author, journalist and screenwriter. My latest novel THIRTY THINGS I LOVE ABOUT MYSELF is coming out in January in the UK and US. I've also written two YA novels VIRGIN and NOT THAT EASY.
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I'm a freelance journalist for publications like the Telegraph, Daily Mail, Grazia and Glamour. I'm also a body positive campaigner and founded the #sideprofileselfie movement. In my spare time, I also teach yoga and created a volunteer initiative to paint elderly ladies' nails for Age UK. -
Sophie Green
Sophie Green Is the author of the Potkin and Stubbs trilogy. She has a degree in zoology and an interest in folklore and urban legend. She was born and still lives in East Anglia and works as a librarian for Suffolk Libraries.
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Maja Lunde
Maja Lunde is a Norwegian author and screenwriter. Lunde has written ten books for children and young adults. She has also written scripts for Norwegian television, including for the children’s series Barnas supershow (“The Children’s Super Show”), the drama series Hjem (“Home”) and the comedy series Side om Side (“Side by Side”). The History of Bees is her first novel for adults. She lives with her husband and three children in Oslo.
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L.D. Lapinski
L. D. Lapinski is the best-selling author of JAMIE, Stepfather Christmas, and The Strangeworlds Travel Agency series, including Adventure in the Floating Mountains, which was a 2023 World Book Day title. JAMIE was nominated for the 2024 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing.
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L. D's new middle-grade fantasy series ARTEZANS launches in February 2024 with the first book Artezans: The Forgotten Magic.
L. D.'s books are published around the world in fifteen languages, and each book in the Strangeworlds trilogy has been awarded a Kirkus star - one of the most coveted designations in the book industry,
marking books of exceptional merit.
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Carolee Dean
Carolee Dean, MS, CCC-SLP, CALT, Speech-Language Pathologist and Certified Academic Language Therapist specializing in dyslexia, is an adjunct instructor at Providence College teaching Language-Based Learning for students pursuing a Master of Education in Special Education with a Dyslexia Credential. She is the founder of Word Travel Press LLC, creating decodable books and related materials for struggling readers through her HOT ROD series. She served as the Western Region Representative for the International Dyslexia Association from 2022 to 2025. Dean specializes in narrative-based strategies and is the author of Story Frames for Literacy: Enhancing Student Learning Through the Power of Storytelling (2021, Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co, I
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Hania Czaban
Z książek nauczyła się marzyć. Niesamowite historie tańczą w jej głowie od najmłodszych lat. Na co dzień Hania dzieli swój czas pomiędzy czytanie, pisanie i… robienie zadań z matematyki. Wiele osób mówi jej, że powinna skupić się na szkole, ale ona potrafi znaleźć w życiu równowagę. Z literaturą nie rozstaje się ani na krok, choć fascynuje ją też fizyka, a kosmos wcale nie jest jej straszny. (Nie wie, jak połączy te wszystkie zainteresowania ze studiowaniem ekonomii, które ma w planach, ale pracuje nad tym!) Dla tej dziewczyny wszystko jest możliwe. Cały ten czas to jej literacki debiut!
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Gabriel Dylan
Gabriel is a secondary school teacher who spends his free time living the double life of a YA and MG author.
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Daddy to a tribe of small children, and a keen surfer and snowboarder, Gabriel loves travelling to snowy or beachy destinations, and reading horror and fantasy novels.
The idea for his debut novel, YA horror WHITEOUT, came to him whilst leading a Sixth form ski trip to the wilds of Austria and wishing a horde of vampires would descend from the trees and devour the students who weren't behaving.
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Pádraig Kenny
Pádraig Kenny is an Irish writer who hails from Newbridge in County Kildare.
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His debut novel Tin was published in 2018 and was Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month. It has been nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and several other awards.
His second novel Pog was published in April 2019 and was Independent Bookseller's Book of the Month.
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Wunmi Aramiji
Wunmi Aramiji is a scientist, artist and storyteller exploring the ways harmony emerges from, exists beside, and thrives within chaos. As both a scientist and an artist, Wunmi is driven by the desire to make sense (and nonsense) of the human experience. She is particularly passionate about centering the experiences of those on the fringes of society and sees community building and caretaking as essential to holistic being.
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After graduating with a BS in Chemistry and a MS in Materials Science from Stanford, Wunmi spent almost two years as a research scientist studying works of art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. During that time, she wrote her debut novel, The Waning. Wunmi is now a PhD candidate in Materials Science and Engineering at No -
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen was a Norwegian writer and scholar. He and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe were collectors of Norwegian folklore. They were so closely united in their lives' work that their folk tale collections are commonly mentioned only as "Asbjørnsen and Moe".
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Anne Elvedal
Anne Elvedal er en av landets mest ettertraktede manusforfattere innen TV og film. Hun har skrevet manus til tre Amanda-nominerte spillefilmer (Børning 2, Kutoppen og Elias og jakten på havets gull) og tv-seriene Twin og Wisting har høstet gode kritikker og blitt solgt til flere land. Anne Elvedal debuterer nå som skjønnlitterær forfatter med ungdomstrilogien Dødens spill.
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Darren Simpson
Darren Simpson writes vivid, unruly fiction for older children and teens.
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His debut novel, Scavengers, was a Guardian Best Book of the Year, and was selected for the national Summer Reading Challenge. The Memory Thieves was an Observer Book of the Month and a World Book Day Summer Read, while Furthermoor was Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Month and a Waterstones Best Book of the Year. Darren’s stories have won awards and been translated into several languages. He’s been nominated twice for the prestigious Carnegie Medal.
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Andrzej Polkowski
Andrzej Polkowski was a Polish translator . He translated around forty titles across several genres, including children's literature (including the Harry Potter series), fantasy, science fiction and history.
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Anna Meriano
I grew up in Houston with an older brother and a younger brother and a large but close-knit network of aunts, uncles, and cousins spreading across the state of Texas. I graduated from Rice University with a degree in English, and earned my MFA in creative writing with an emphasis in writing for children from the New School in New York. There I was lucky to meet CAKE Literary founders Dhonielle Clayton and Sona Charaipotra, who started me on the Love Sugar Magic journey.
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Natasha Mac a'Bháird
Natasha Mac a’Bháird is a freelance writer and editor. She is the author of the bestselling wedding planning book, The Irish Bride’s Survival Guide, a new edition of which was published in 2011. Her first children’s book, Olanna’s Big Day, was published in 2009. Olanna’s Big Day was included in the White Ravens Collection 2010 and was shortlisted for the Reading Association of Ireland Award 2011.
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Emily Randall-Jones
Emily has worked as a touring actor, a princess at Hampton Court and for the National Trust creating experiences for visitors. She’s the winner of both the Mslexia Children’s and YA Novel as well as being longlisted for the Branford Boase award. 'The Scream of the Whistle' - another ghostly MG - is out June 25. She's a proudly neurodivergent single mum and can usually be found foraging for hag stones.
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Anna Musiałowicz
Z wykształcenia pedagog-resocjalizator. Z natury włóczykij. W chwilach wolnych od obowiązków rodzinnych i zawodowych grywa w szachy, nawiedza zamki, rysuje gdzie popadnie i co popadnie; zazwyczaj słucha heavy metalu i rocka, czyta głównie fantasy. Z zamiłowania pisarka.
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Jako autorka zadebiutowała w marcu 2016 roku. Jako redaktor i korektor działa głównie w wydawnictwach związanych z horrorem i fantasy, zajmuje się również promocją książek. Jej opowiadania i drabble zostały opublikowane w magazynach i antologiach związanych z literaturą grozy i podręcznikami RPG. „Diabeł zza okna” to jej debiutancka powieść. -
Matthew Fox
Winner of the Bath Children's Novel Award
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Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist 2024
Financial Times Best Children's Books 2023
Waterstones Best Childrens Fiction Books 2022
Publishers Weekly ★ Review of The Sky Over Rebecca
Booklist ★ Review of The Sky Over Rebecca
Praise for The Lovely Dark:
★★★★★ "A book to teach children about death, and move adults to tears. Fox is a beguiling writer, whose prose cocoons us through the unusual adventures that follow. It is only at the end that the true hero of this deeply affecting story emerges." - Emily Bearn, The Telegraph
"A triumph of a MG novel, exploring death and friendship and hope and perseverance. ... This novel broke me apart and put me back together (thank goodness!). It’s an absolute mus -
Andrea Ferrari
Biografía no oficial
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Cuando era chica pensaba que para el año 2005 todos nos trasladaríamos en naves espaciales individuales y aquí estamos, todavía en colectivo. Por eso no hay que tomarse muy en serio mis predicciones. A los nueve años, sin embargo, escribí una poesía donde especulaba sobre mi futuro profesional y anticipaba tres posibilidades: bailarina, domadora de leones o escritora. Al menos acerté en una.
Sin embargo, tardé mucho en llegar hasta ahí. Primero me recibí de traductora literaria de inglés, luego circulé unos años por los pasillos de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (también a veces por las aulas) y finalmente decidí dedicarme al periodismo. Llevaba unos quince años haciéndolo cuando un día escribí un cuento para mi hija ( -
Oliver Schlick
Oliver Schlick wurde 1964 in Neuwied geboren, lebt in Düsseldorf, mag Waldmeisterbrause und Pizza Funghi und schreibt Geschichten für Erwachsene, Kinder und Jugendliche. Seit 2015 hat er mehrere Kinder- und Jugendbücher veröffentlicht, darunter Miranda Lux – Denken heißt Zweifeln, das 2017 für den Deutsch-Französischen Jugendliteraturpreis nominiert war. Seine Geschichten zeichnen sich durch schräge Charaktere und das Aufeinandertreffen von realen und fantastischen Welten aus. Wenn er mal nicht schreibt (was selten vorkommt), widmet er seine Zeit dem Sammeln von Schneekugeln und Blechspielzeug – und dem exzessiven Hören von The Cure.
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Emma Read
Emma is the award-winning author of the Milton the Mighty series (The Times book of the year) and brand new spooky standalone, The Housetrap. She also co-wrote Panda in the Spotlight with Sarah Horne, all with Chicken House Books.
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When not writing, Emma is a freelance novel editor with EmDashED and a writing tutor and mentor with WriteMentor.
She loves Hallowe'en, sci-fi, and board games, and plays too much Fortnite. She lives in the southwest of the UK with her cat and two pet children ... is that right??