Lindsay Galvin is an author writing for middle grade, teen and adults. She's a qualified teacher with 20 years experience, and loves to visit schools. Lindsay is also a @writementor tutor, mentor and staff writer, and provides manuscript services. She currently lives on the south coast with three boys, two cats and one puppy.

Alan Brown was born in London, but has spent most of his life in the wild countryside of the north of England. He started writing only when his two children had grown up. His books, he says, are "a way of keeping their childhood and mine alive in my mind."