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Tim Tate is a multi award-winning documentary film maker, investigative journalist and author. He has written 18 non-fiction books, all published by major imprints in the UK; several have also been published in the United States, Europe, Japan,  China and South Korea. His 2015 book about the Nazi Lebensborn programme, Hitler’s Forgotten Children has been translated into…

Juliet McKenna is a Sci-Fi and Fantasy author and also writes historical crime fiction under the pseudonym JM Alvey. Juliet has been a long-term member of the SoA, having joined in 1997 after she was offered her first publishing contract. Juliet originally worked as a bookseller in 1994 for Ottakar’s, which gave her insight into…

Charles Harris is an author and award winning writer-director for television and cinema, having traditionally published two novels (twice award-nominated) and three non-fiction books, as well as self-publishing a collection of short stories and a further non-fiction book. Charles previously worked in the Film and TV industry in various roles, ranging from screenwriting and film…

Philip Womack is the author of seven critically acclaimed books for children, including The Arrow of Apollo. His first non-fiction book for adults, How to Teach Classics to Your Dog, was published in October 2020. He is a Royal Literary Fellow at the Royal College of Music in 2020-21. He contributes to many newspapers and magazines, including Literary…

Margaret Skea is an award-winning author of three historical novels, a two-book fictionalised historical biography and numerous short stories. Growing up in Ulster at the height of ‘The Troubles’ it was perhaps inevitable that much of her writing is set in the context of conflict. But whatever the period or place, her passion is to…

Anne Rooney writes non-fiction for all ages from 5 to adult on a huge variety of topics and for all markets. She focuses on science and the history of science, with a big soft spot for dinosaurs, evolution and space — which happily overlaps with the interests of many 8-year-olds. She occasionally writes fiction for…

Hugh is an academic non-fiction author and business director involved in urban infrastructure. Hugh’s career focused on master planning of new communities and urban infrastructure across more than 30 countries. He was a director of several consultancies, but is now retired and engaged in a range of advisory roles for built environment developments in UK…

Abie Longstaff is a children’s writer. Her books range from picture books to middle grade fiction (spanning roughly ages 2 to 11) and she is published by Penguin Random House, Scholastic, Hachette, Templar and others. She also writes school readers for a range of educational publishers. You can find her on Twitter under @abielongstaff

Dorothy Koomson is the award-winning author of 15 novels and has been making up stories since she was 13 when she used to share her stories with her convent school friends. Dorothy’s novels have been translated into over 30 languages, and a TV adaptation loosely based on The Ice Cream Girls was shown on ITV1…

Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin is the founder of the multi-award-winning writing resources website Writing.ie, The Inkwell Group publishing consultancy and the Murder One International Crime Writing Festival. She is Ireland’s leading literary scout. Vanessa conceived and developed the National Emerging Writer Programme for Dublin City of Literature, and was the lead consultant and presenter for WritersWebTV. Vanessa is the Chair of…

Simon Cann is the author of thirty-plus books; fiction and non-fiction, conventional and self-published, and with some ghostwriting thrown in. Before turning to writing full-time, Simon worked as a management consultant for one of the global consulting firms.