As well as writing for middle grade, Gabrielle works as a creative producer for the Terry Pratchett estate which is a dream job for a lifetime fan of the Discworld series. She started out as a videogame artist working on games for PC, Playstation and XBox, before becoming a university lecturer in game design. Her first series for Scholastic was about a boy called Alfie Bloom who inherits a castle and a whole load of magical problems. Her passion for writing and experience of childhood in the eighties came together with her love of videogames when she was asked to write a series of novels based on the characters and world from the game, Knights and Bikes. Her most recent series was written with her husband, Satish Shewhorak. Rani Reports, features a girl who wants to be an investigative journalist and her exciting adventures with her rambunctious Mauritian grandma! She finally got to place one of her own books in her Discworld collection when she wrote Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch with Rhianna Pratchett and their words were brought to life by illustrator Paul Kidby.

One of Gabrielle’s favourite experiences was being recruited by BBC Bitesize as a games expert to help Peter Capaldi’s Doctor Who to save the world from the Daleks using programming.

Author: Middle Grade
Represented by Hannah Sheppard