Author
Michelle Misra
Michelle Misra worked as an editor on various major series, including ‘Rainbow Magic’, before going freelance in 2005. Since then she has worked creatively with several publishers, advising and putting together series proposals for ‘Magic Ballerina’ and ‘Ugenia Lavender’. She has written under various pseudonyms, including Lucy Daniels, and is now developing and writing her own projects. Michelle lives in London with her husband and young son.
Lauren Conrad
Lauren Conrad is best known for starring in MTV’s #1 show, The Hills. She has been featured on the covers of Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, Seventeen and Entertainment Weekly, among others. Her first novel, L.A Candy was a huge bestseller. She lives in Los Angeles.
Sarah Garland
Sarah Garland is the author of several exciting children’s titles, including ‘Dad on the Run’, ‘The Survival of Arno Mostyn’ and ‘Shadows on the Barn’, which was shortlisted for the Smarties Children’s Fiction Award.
She lives near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Gail Carson Levine
Gail Carson Levine grew up in New York City and has been writing all her life. Her poems have been published in two anthologies of teenage poetry. She and her husband, David, collaborated on a children’s musical that was produced by a theatre in Brooklyn. Today she, David and their airedale, Jake, live in a 200 year old farmhouse in Brewster, New York.
Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy was born in New Zealand and has loved telling stories all her life. She has published well over a hundred titles and won several major prizes and awards, including The Order of New Zealand, for her internationally-acclaimed contribution to children’s literature.
Scott Westerfeld
Scott Westerfeld is the author of over ten books for young adults, includingin Peeps, The Last Days and the Midnighters trilogy. He was born in Texas in 1963 and is married to author Justine Larbalestier, also featured in this collection.
Maggie Prince
Maggie Prince was born and grew up in Lancaster. She was educated at London University, from where she obtained a Master’s Degree. She now lives in Hertfordshire and is married with two children.
Elizabeth George Speare
Elizabeth George Speare was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, on November 21, 1908. She grew up in New England, and in 1936 married and moved to Connecticut. She won the 1959 Newbery Medal for THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND, and the 1962 Newbery Medal for THE BRONZE BOW. She also received a Newbery Honor Award in 1983, and in 1989 she was presented with the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her substantial and enduring contribution to children’s literature. She died in 1994.