Author event 2019

BEN BARTON

BC39F673-63CD-409B-81A6-D843BF9FFB58Ben Barton grew up on the Romney Marsh in Kent. His poems have been published widely in both the UK and USA. Nominated for the Canterbury Poet of the Year Award and the erbacce-prize, he works as a professional copy and travel writer.

Also a film artist, Ben’s film Stella Erratica was funded by the late David Bowie, and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. He lives in Folkestone with his husband and son, beside the beautiful North Downs.

Books available from Amazon here.

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Author event 2019

BEA STEVENS

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I have to stay that this was one of the best set up stalls at the event!

Author of Chick Lit, lover of chocolate (and doesn’t think it’s pure coincidence that the two sound similar!) Has a penchant for shoes, bags, clothes (the usual necessities), and socialising with friends, family and anyone else who gets dragged along.
Hopes you enjoy her books, get her humour, don’t object to her use of British spellings and keep in touch!

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Author event 2019

DREW WAGER

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Drew Wagar was born in Canada in 1970, but has lived in the UK since 1972. He was educated at the university of Brighton where he studied Computer Science. Drew published his first novel, ‘Torn’, in 2011 and followed this up with a short story in the anthology ‘Fusion’ in 2012. Drew has written one of the official novels set in the universe of Elite: Dangerous by Frontier Developments. This book, ‘Elite:Reclamation’ , is now on Amazon worldwide. EMANATION is the first book in Drew’s upcoming ‘Shadeward Saga’, hardback editions will be available from October 2015. www.drewwagar.com

Drew is on his tenth novel at the moment with them all available on Amazon here.

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Author event 2019

MELISSA BATEMAN

5B6756C3-2F89-493B-AB80-44F09282C476Born in 1989 Melissa Bateman is a book lover and baking enthusiast. Born in rural Kent in the late 1980’s, her childhood playground was her grandparents’ farm where she shared adventures with her sister and her favourite farm cat, Tink.

Melissa began writing Daughter of Ibany in the summer of 2013, and worked on it steadily over the next three years.

Among her favourite authors are J.K Rowling, Suzanne Collins and Phillipa Gregory. Her hobbies include cinema trips, baking, seeing stand up comedy shows and watching historical and natural world documentaries, especially David Attenborough.

Her love of writing was discovered at school on short story assignments and also history projects. She has long had a love for visiting historical houses and castles to see the homes of her favourite historical figures.

She is a food lover with a sweet tooth who loves an excuse to go out for dinner.

This is available on Amazon here.

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Author event 2019

CHRISTOPHER LAW

16C3E41A-104C-4954-A073-9302EB684BCBChristopher Law lives in the South East of England where he’s been writing about monsters since childhood. He is the author of Chaos Tale and Chaos Tales II: Hell TV and has appeared in a number of anthologies, including regular slots in the Burdizzo charity range. For more info and free stories go to evilscribbles.wordpress.com or facebook.com/evilscribbles

Available here at Amazon.

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MIKE SHANAHAN

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Mike Shanahan is a freelance writer with a doctorate in rainforest ecology. He has lived in a national park in Borneo, bred endangered penguins, investigated illegal bear farms, produced award-winning journalism and spent several weeks of his life at the annual United Nations climate change negotiations. He is interested in what people think about nature and our place in it. His writing includes work published by The Economist, Nature, The Ecologist and Ensia, and chapters of Dry: Life without Water (Harvard University Press); Climate Change and the Media (Peter Lang Publishing) and Culture and Climate Change: Narratives (Shed). He is the illustrator of Extraordinary Animals (Greenwood Publishing Group) and maintains a blog called Under the Banyan.

His book Ladders to heaven is available on Amazon here.

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Author event 2019

HANNAH R. PALMER

Hannah Palmer lives on the south coast in Kent, South East England. When she’s not writing, she can normally be found with a book in her hands.

Hannah has always been interested in dark thrillers and the macabre and is thrilled to have found a way to express that passion. Her main influences have come from authors such as Neil Gaiman, Kate Hamer, Margaret Atwood and Gillian Flynn.

‘Number 47’ is Hannah’s first novel and was inspired by the darkness that everyone tries so desperately to repress. It explores themes of love, belonging and when passion leans into obsession.

Despite the best of intentions, Hannah is terrible at blogging but loves to speak to readers and other writers. Find her over on Facebook – /hannahrpalmerwriter – she loves a chat.

Number 47 is available on Amazon here.

I will be talking to Hannah later in the month.

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