As a former researcher and writer for the Financial Times, Sibéal Pounder has interviewed everyone from designer Vivienne Westwood to director Sam Taylor-Wood.

Now she writes about fabulous witches and feisty fairies in her debut series, Witch Wars. She also tutors children who want to get into the media industry, helping them to develop articles and documentary shorts and teaching them how to put together magazines.

Sibéal has a degree in History, a masters in Publishing and recently completed the Faber Academy's Writing for Children course. Sibéal's first book, Witch Wars, was shor tlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2016.

Laura Ellen Anderson is a children's book writer and illustrator based in London.

She has illustrated several picture books, including Snowflakes and Mermaid, both written by CBBC presenter Cerrie Burnell.

Laura is also the creator of the comic strip 'Evil Emperor Penguin', published monthly in The Pheonix Comic.