‘I’m super excited to show you,’ said Phil happily, taking her hand.
Behind them, a deep throbbing noise came from Digby and Elisaveta’s pods.
Outside, the future waited for all of them.
A Note on the Authors
Emma Young is a freelance ethical business consultant. She runs her business part-time, alongside looking after two young sons and taking what moments of freedom she can to return to writing. She supports various charitable passions, including assisting local charities dealing with the refugee crisis and older people. Emma also houses a very old, placid cat through the Cinnamon Trust fostering scheme. Her weaknesses include Haribo Starmix, the Real Housewives franchises and lining up her children’s toy cars in colour order.
Frances Stickley is a primary school teacher and reading specialist with a passion for storytelling and a lifelong love of fairytales. Her recent writing has focused on unpicking and subverting traditional narratives for the entertainment of younger readers. She is particularly interested in the underexplored potential of picture books to engage older children. Frances has two young daughters and consequently a house full of books, stories and chaos.
Kelly Archer is a marketer and first-time writer who loves terrible jokes, wild animals and singing along badly to Smiths records. She regularly entertains her nieces and nephews with her questionable talent for making up poems and new, usually tasteless, lyrics to popular songs. Kelly makes her home in the outskirts of London with a vast collection of books, her husband and a fox called Gloria who calls by every night for a bit of chicken and a chat (admittedly the chat is rather one-sided).
Miranda Luby is an Australian freelance lifestyle journalist and award-winning fiction writer. Her journalism appears in publications such as National Geographic, BBC Travel and the New York Post. In 2017, Miranda won the Bedford International Short Story Competition. She was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Seán Ó Faoláin Prize and was on the longlist for the Bath International Short Story Award. She loves exploring themes of nature and technology, and she is currently writing her first novel.
Vicky McFarland is a performance storyteller and audio stories writer, producer and performer. Her stories are available as downloads and she has a YouTube channel, Tale Time Stories. A TES content provider and trained primary teacher, she facilitates and runs drama, creative writing and storytelling workshops for children ages five–fifteen. Vicky currently writes bedtime stories for Onebillion.org and is working on her first middle-grade children’s novel and a chapter book series for younger children. She lives in Northern Ireland with her husband and baby son.
Stephanie Aslan is a writer who enjoys dreaming up children’s literature and short stories. After studying English Literature at Queen Mary University of London, Stephanie joined a small independent publishing company, and then moved on to work in marketing in the tech sector. Stephanie won the London Cultural Festival short story competition in 2013 for her story Travels of an Ageing Lady, and has had several articles published online. She longs for the day she can escape to nature and write all day long …
Annie Edge sprang into writing at forty-two. Having aupaired in Vienna, taught English in Greece and held down a variety of jobs in the UK, from high-school English teacher, Belgian chocolatier and hospital orderly to working in a shelter for the homeless, she decided to make the leap. Her self-published children’s novel, Frankie Feinstein & the Fenworld Thief-Takers, was shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Award in 2013. She lives on the edge of a nature reserve in Suffolk and strives to write a little every day.
Charlotte Goddard is a freelance journalist and mother of two small boys.
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