Authors Families
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Sophie Wills
Sophie grew up in Chelmsford, Essex. She failed the 11+, had a weekend job at a boarding kennels where she suffered workplace bullying from a goat, and nurtured a dream to have a career she could do in her pyjamas. She worked at two London publishers before finally achieving her ambition by go...
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Stacy Gregg
Stacy Gregg is the author of the successful pony adventure series Pony Club Secrets and Pony Club Rivals and standalone novel The Princess and the Foal, winner of the Children's Choice Junior Fiction award at the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. A former...
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Stephen Elboz
Stephen Elboz was born in Wellingborough, Northants where he still lives. He started to write while still at school, encouraged by a teacher, but left with only one GCSE (for technical drawing!) having failed English dismally. Later, however, he studied history at Lancaster University, also ma...
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Stephen Kelman
Stephen Kelman was born in Luton in 1976. After finishing his degree he worked variously as a warehouse operative, a careworker, and in marketing and local government administration. He decided to pursue his writing seriously in 2005, and has completed several feature screenplays since then. P...
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Steve Antony
Steve Antony was born in England, although he grew up mostly in a city in New Mexico called Alamogordo: he was the kid with the British accent who liked to draw. He went on to study art, and graduated with an HND in Illustration from Swindon College. He also has an MA Children's Book Illustrat...
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Steve Augarde
Steve Augarde has been illustrating childrens books for 30 years and has provided the chapter head illustrations for his first novel, The Various. Steve has created these original and ornate illustrations using a scraperboard. Celandine, his second novel has been longlisted for The Carnegie Me...
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Steve Cole
Born in 1971, Steve Cole spent a happy childhood in rural Bedfordshire being loud and aspiring to amuse. He liked books, and so went to the University of East Anglia to read more of them. Later on he started writing them too, with titles ranging from pre-school poetry to Young Adult thrillers...
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Steve Smallman
Steve has been illustrating children's books for over 30 years and writing his own stories for slightly less. He also teaches illustration workshops in schools, including mural-painting. Steve is the author of Smelly Peter the Great Pea Eater(Winner of the Sheffield Children's Book Awar...
