William Coles was at Eton for five years before reading Theology at Bristol University. He has been a journalist since 1988, training on the Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard and the Cambridge Evening News, before joining The Sun in 1994. Since 2001, Bill has been freelancing in Edinburgh, where he lives with his wife and two children. Bill's debut novel The Well-Tempered Clavier will be published in October 2007 by Legend Press. Click Here for a 2-minute video in which he describes the novel and introduces us to Bach's passionate piano music which brings together the novel's main characters.

Mairi Craw graduated with an M.A. in English Literature & History of Fine Art from Glasgow University. She worked for BBC World Service before starting her own publicity and design business. Mairi is also a member of the West Country Writers' Association. Beyond the Hedge is the first of a series of fantasy novels inspired by her childhood in Scotland, and she is currently writing the sequel, 'Between Two Worlds'. Her debut novel, read by the Scottish actor David Rintoul, was broadcast on Channel 4's digital radio station, Oneword, during December 2006.

Peter Yirrell is a teacher of IT in an inner London comprehensive and lives in south London. Previously, he spent more than twenty years in international banking, retiring in his forties as a Senior Director of a major American bank. Peter has a bachelors degree in Business and IT, and a masters in Education. His first book The Beat is Yours Forever will be published by Twenty First Century Publishers later this year, and Peter is currently working on his next book entitled An Innocent Man.

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

Tessa Lorant Warburg writes both fiction and non-fiction. She has published three thrillers as Emma Lorant entitled Cradle of Secrets, Lullaby of Fear and Baby Roulette (Headline Book Publishing), the award-winning A Voice at Twilight (Peter Owen) and thirteen books on textile crafts, including the acclaimed Heritage of Knitting series. She has completed the first title in The Dohlen Inheritance trilogy, and has several more books in the pipeline.

Simon Hall is a TV crime reporter turned crime writer. Simon works as a BBC news correspondent in the south west of England, and used to cover the environment, but was moved to 'Home Affairs', or crime reporting. It was this move which provided the catalyst and inspiration for this writing. 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) which will be published later this year.

Fergus O'Connell's first novel entitled Call The Swallow (2002) was short listed for the Kerry Irish Fiction Prize and nominated for the Hughes & Hughes / Sunday Independent Novel of the Year. Fergus is also an authority on project management, having published six management books, two of which are bestsellers including How To Run Successful High-Teach Project-Based Organizations (1999), How To Run Successful Projects In Web-Time (2000), How To Run Successful Projects - The Silver Bullet, 3rd edition (2001), Simply Brilliant - The Competitive Advantage of Common Sense (2004), How To Do A Great Job - And Go Home On Time (2005) and Fast Projects: Project Management When Time is Short (2007). Fergus' books have been translated into twelve languages.