Angela Woolfe is the author of the Avril Crump trilogy as well as a series of magical adventures for younger readers under the pseudonym Emerald Everheart.

She is married with one young daughter, who is even more obsessed with fairy tales than she is. Angela lives in Wimbledon.

Duncan Beedie is an illustrator and animator based in Bristol.

Aside from drawing copious quirky images, he collects clockwork robots, can identify pretty much any military aircraft and has a dog called Ivor.