Sebastian Beaumont is the author of Thirteen and The Juggler. He was born and raised in Scotland and graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a degree in Creative Arts, in which he majored in Creative Writing. He now lives in Brighton where he works in private practice as a psychotherapeutic counsellor. He received an Arts Council Bursary to write Thirteen, a tale of mystery and the human psyche. The Juggler is his second novel published by Myrmidon Books.

Born  1963, Glasgow, grainy childhood, angstish teen, bevvy, Art School, bevvy, dole, bevvy, cuckolded, Tokyo, Japanese bevvy, back to Glasgow, dole, bevvy, shifted to Ayrshire with Yvonne – Aidan and Joy arrive.  Sleeves up…

Cult fiction Tales of The Great Unwashed published in Variant magazine, Scottish Arts Council bursary, shortlisted for Tartan Shorts Award, winner Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, Unwashed stories produced/broadcast by Resonance FM London. Ian is the author of Bulletproof Suzy, published by Myrmidon Books.

For more information on Ian you can visit his blog here: ianbrotherhood.wordpress.com

Samantha David is a columnist and, she says, a bad journalist. “There’s always the temptation to make it up” she confesses. “That’s why I like writing books. So much easier”.

In spite of the temptations of the imagination, Samantha is the author of The Complete Guide to Living in France, and writes articles for a variety of websites including BBC Online, Channel 4 and Guardian Abroad – and print titles including the FT and the Sunday Times.

She also writes regular columns about life in France for Living France and the Languedoc Page. You can see more examples of her journalism on her website www.samantha-david.com.

In her spare time she talks to dogs and plays the piano. She lives in France with her family and a menagerie of animals.

I Married a Pirate will be her first published novel.

Toby Frost studied law and was called to the Bar in 2001. Since then, he has worked as a private tutor, a court clerk and a legal advisor to the motor industry. Unable to become Great Britain’s foremost space explorer, he is content just to write about space exploration instead. He has also produced film reviews for the book The DVD Stack and articles for Solander magazine.

Toby is the author of four fantastic steampunk novels called Space Captain Smith, The God Emperor of Didcot, Wrath of the Lemming Men and A Game of Battleships.

For more information on Toby please visit his website here: www.tobyfrost.com

Jon Grahame is the pseudonym of journalist and writer Denis Kilcommons who won the John Creasey Award from the Crime Writers’ Association of Great Britain for his first book The Dark Apostle. He has had books published under his own name and as Peter Lacey. Reaper is the first of a trilogy of post-apocalyptic novels published by Myrmidon Books. Angel, the second in the trilogy, is due to be released in March 2014, shortly followed by the final in the trilogy, Redemption. These are the first books under the name of Jon Grahame.

For more information on Dennis please visit his website here: www.deniskilcommons.com