Gina studied writing and film at university and now works part time in video games journalism, writing guides and walkthroughs for the latest games. She can usually be found with her head in a book, writing thrillers, or playing video games in front of a horror. She lives in Suffolk with her husband and dog, Manny, named after a character from her favourite game.
Gina writes psychological thrillers as Georgina Lees and speculative thrillers as G. A. Lees.

Yasmin Rahman is a British Muslim born and raised in Hertfordshire. She has MAs in Creative Writing and Writing for Young People. Her debut novel, All the Things We Never Said, was nominated for the Carnegie Medal, and was the runner-up YA book in the inaugural Diversity Book Awards. When she’s not writing, Yasmin makes bookish fan art; her designs are sold worldwide on behalf of John Green and Colleen Hoover.

After graduating with a degree in Linguistics from Reading University, Susanna embarked on a successful career in public relations, eventually running her own PR agency. In 2015, having always held an ambition to write fiction, she took the six-month Writing a Novel course at the Faber Academy and her first psychological thriller, What Happened That Night, was published in 2017.

She writes dark, contemporary stories with strong female characters, often set in interesting places, and she loves travelling for research. She is a regular interviewee on radio, at literary festivals, in libraries and at book club meetings.

Susanna loves wildlife and enjoys developing the plots for her stories on long walks in the countryside with her dog. She has two grown-up children and lives in Buckinghamshire.

Penny Blackwell grew up in rural West Yorkshire, right in the heart of Brontë country… and she’s still there. After graduating from Durham University with a degree in English Literature, she dallied with living in cities including London, Nottingham and Cambridge, but homesickness soon drove her back to her beloved Yorkshire. She lives in the shadow of the moors with her partner and two mischievous border collies.

Penny also writes romantic comedies as Mary Jayne Baker, wartime sagas as Betty Firth and heartfelt contemporary women’s fiction as Lisa Swift.

Mary Jayne Baker is an award-winning romance author from Yorkshire, UK.

She grew up in rural West Yorkshire, right in the heart of Brontë country… and she’s still there. After graduating from Durham University with a degree in English Literature, she dallied with living in cities including London, Nottingham and Cambridge, but eventually came back with her own romantic hero in tow to her beloved Dales, where she first started telling stories about heroines with flaws and the men who love them. She was the recipient of the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Romantic Comedy of the Year Award 2020 for A Question of Us.

Mary Jayne also writes funny, heartfelt contemporary women’s fiction as Lisa Swift, uplifting wartime sagas as Betty Firth and Gracie Taylor, and cosy mysteries as Penny Blackwell.

Betty Firth grew up in rural West Yorkshire, right in the heart of Brontë country… and she’s still there. After graduating from Durham University with a degree in English Literature, she dallied with living in cities including London, Nottingham and Cambridge, but homesickness soon drove her back to her beloved Yorkshire. She lives in the shadow of the moors with her partner and two mischievous border collies.

Betty also writes romantic comedies as Mary Jayne Baker, murder mysteries as Penny Blackwell and heartfelt contemporary women’s fiction as Lisa Swift.

Born and raised in the deepest hinterlands of rural North Wales, Liam has always been an incorrigible teller of stories. From an early age, he was immersed in history and folklore (and books that were, with hindsight, probably a bit too old for him). Despite having no formal literary education, he’s been writing for as long as anyone who knows him can remember. His debut novel, THE HILL IN THE DARK GROVE, is a haunting tribute to the mountains of his childhood, the myths of his homeland, and the resilience of love in the face of the merciless passage of time.

In what some might generously call a varied career, he has been an extremely bored accountant, cooked dinners at a B&B in a French watermill, run errands for the CEO of a large consultancy firm, spent lockdown in a friend’s empty holiday cottage while a herd of goats took over the town, and now works in the arcade management office at Llandudno Pier. He recently married his lovely German partner of nine years. Brexit is an ongoing spanner in all his plans.

Dr Chloe Bedford is a Counselling Psychologist working with adults, teens, and children struggling with their mental health. She has over 10 years’ experience of working in both the NHS and private practice. Chloe has spent time working in a specialist eating disorder service for teens and through this, as well as her own love of running developed an interest in the complex relationship we can have with our bodies, eating and exercise.

Chloe is an enthusiastic runner, and has run many half marathons and 10kms. One day she dreams of making it to the start line of a marathon, but as a mother to two young children, she accepts that this might have to wait.

Chloe is acutely aware of the benefits that running has had on her own mental well-being, as a psychologist, as a mother, and as a human. She shares her experience and the science behind how it can help, along with other mental health information, on her Instagram account (@the.running.psychologist), in the hope that this might help others.

Born in Kenya to Azerbaijani and Belgian parents and having lived in London, Norway, NYC, and Albania, Nergiz has never felt tied to a single place or identity. She brings this unique, borderless perspective to her work in social change. When she was 9 years old, she attended her first protest, an event which ignited a passion for creating a better future where compassion, kindness, and love prevail.

As a new mother, Nergiz’s commitment to this cause has become even more urgent. She is the founder of Chix, a media company for a healed future, and the author of “365 Ways to Save the Planet.” Her upcoming book, “Matriarchy: The Path to Liberation,” explores a transformative social paradigm.

Nergiz is also a purpose-driven entrepreneur, having founded Magi, a brand focused on bringing hemp back into fashion.

She believes in the basic goodness of humanity and is dedicated to inspiring hope and positive change.

Since the age of 10, Rosie has been able to quote (and sing) every single line of Disney’s Hercules from start to finish. Her love of Greek myth led her to study Classics and English at Jesus College, Oxford, where she spent her first year learning Ancient Greek from scratch – soon discovering that Disney’s Hercules is woefully inaccurate.

For eight years she worked in digital marketing, helping businesses to discover and tell their own stories. You’ll find her words all over the internet, from travel blog posts to SaaS sales pages.

She loves speculative fiction of all stripes: sweeping secondary world fantasies, dystopian sci-fi, swashbuckling historical adventures and a spot of cosy fantasy romance. She never grew out of YA and she’s not ashamed of it.