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Joanna Nadin

A former broadcast journalist and special adviser to the Prime Minister, since leaving politics Joanna Nadin has written more than seventy books for children, teenagers and adults, including the award-winning Penny Dreadful series, the Flying Fergus series with Sir Chris Hoy, and the Carnegie-nominated Joe All Alone, which is now a BAFTA-winning BBC drama series. She has won the Fantastic Book Award and the Surrey Book Award, has been shortlisted for the Hearst Big Book Awards, the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, a BookTrust Best Book Award and Queen of Teen, and twice-nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. As well as writing, Joanna has a doctorate in young adult literature and lectures in creative writing at Bath Spa University and for Bloomsbury, as well as freelancing as a speechwriter.

Joanna Nadin – Photo credit: Helen Giles

Website: http://www.joannanadin.com/
Facebook: facebook.com/joannanadinauthor
Twitter: twitter.com/joannanadin
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5-J3N2Aqb5zE_-roy454kA
Instagram: instagram.com/jonadin/

Rikin Parekh

Rikin Parekh studied art at the Camberwell College of Arts and the University of Westminster. He has since worked designing monsters for the film industry and selling books for a national chain. He currently works with year fives in a London primary school inspiring children to draw their own monsters. A major film buff and Marvel aficionado boasting a collection of over 300 Spider-Man comics, when he’s not drawing you’ll probably find him at the cinema or at Comic Con.

Website: http://www.rikinparekh.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/r1k1n
Instagram: instagram.com/r1k1n_parekh/

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