Martyn Ford is a 29-year-old journalist from Hampshire, where he writes for the Bordon Herald. His first book, It Happened to Me, a collection of shocking true stories, was published in 2010 by Summersdale.

In 2011 Martyn's TV script was in the finals of the BBC Laughing Stock Competition and he has since been in talks with the BBC about his writing.

His debut, The Imagination Box, received huge critical acclaim, which was followed by The Imagination Box: Beyond Infinity and The Imagination Box: A Mind of its Own. This his first standalone title.