List of Authors

 

Simon Brown has worked as a macrobiotic consultant, feng shui teacher, consultant and shiatsu therapist. He has written numerous best-selling books including Practical Feng Shui, The Chi Energy Workbook, Modern Day Macrobiotics, The Feng Shui Bible, Astrology by Numbers and Practical Wabi Sabi. His next two books will be Feng Shui Life Coach (Octopus/Godsfield) and Macrobiotic Healing (North Atlantic Books), and Simon will be publishing a non-fiction book entitled The Healer (John Hunt Publishing / O-Books).

Mark Leigh has co-published 36 humour and trivia books including three UK best-sellers. His books include How to Be a Superhero (Penguin), The Book of Stupid Lists (Virgin Books), The Lovers' Revenge Kit (Virgin Books) and Pets with Tourettes (Summersdale). Mark has written books with Rolf Harris, Chris Tarrant, Des Lynam, Pamela Stephenson and Jeremy Beadle. He has written segments for The Baftas and Noel's House Party, and sketches for Hale and Pace, Russ Abbott, Brian Conley and many others.

Carol McGiffin is a regular panellist on the afternoon ITV1 talkshow Loose Women. Her radio career includes a spell at GLR, Talk Radio and LBC. She was also a producer for Ch. 4's Big Breakfast as well as various TV documentaries. Carol's first book entitled Celebrities Behaving Badly will be published by Summersdale later this year, and is co-written with Mark Leigh.

Michael G. R. Tolkien is a freelance lecturer, writer and workshop organiser. Michael has published five books previously and his verse and reviews have appeared widely in many magazines including Acumen, Ambit, Envoi, Poetry Nottingham and Tears in the Fence. He is working on narrative verse renderings of superbly illustrated, timeless children's books including The Rose-Coloured Wish by Florence Bone [1923], Robin Hood by Henry Gilbert [1912], and Sea Magic by C.W. Beaumont [1928].

Kevin Joslin has written the Janet & John scripts for the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show 'Wake up to Wogan' for the last 4 years. The stories are based around the misadventures of John Marsh, a BBC Radio 2 Newsreader. Kevin also runs the website for Terry's show - www.togs.org. The full collection of Janet & John stories will be published by Headline in October 2009.

Malcolm Kohll is a Producer for Focus Films in London. Born in South Africa, his first film script was for the science fiction series Doctor Who. In 1995, Malcolm co-produced a film called No Regrets, and he also helped produce the film The 51st State starring Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Carlyle. Malcolm wrote the script to the film The Bone Snatcher, and he is now looking to publish an international thriller called Good Hope.

Ron McLachlan lives and writes in Wemyss Bay, a small coastal town in the west of Scotland. Ron has published a trilogy of novels, and has won, or been short-listed, in a number of international, national, and local short story competitions. Ron published Whispers of Ghosts and Plato's Child with BeWrite Books and his Peach Red and The Empty Road was published by Chipmunka Publishing earlier this year. Ron is currently working on his next two novels which are entitled Hebridian and The Saviour.

Michael Elsmere recently retired from teaching English Language and Literature in a wide variety of educational establishments around the world and in England. He has written a range of novels, short stories and screenplays and his children's story Rufus and the Biggest Diamond in the World was published in 2007. Michael also leads writing courses and is currently writing his next children's story.

Simon Hall is a TV crime reporter turned crime writer. Simon works as a BBC news correspondent in the south west, formerly cover the environment, but was moved to 'Home Affairs' (crime reporting). His first crime thriller entitled A Popular Murder was published in 2005, followed by The Death Pictures (Accent Press) in February 2008 and Evil Valley (Accent Press) in September 2008. Simon's 4th novel entitled The Judgement Book will be published later this year.