F E (Fiona) Higgins was born in London but grew up in Wicklow on the east coast of Ireland. After training as a primary teacher in Blackrock, near Dublin, she returned to London in the early 1990s to start her teaching career in Reception and later Year 5 classes in Harrow and west London. Between periods of teaching, she made and sold candles and latex moulds and returned to writing, which sh ...

Pete Johnson was born in Winchester. After studying English at Birmingham University, he worked as a teacher, film extra and a journalist before becoming a full-time writer. In this interview he talks to Nikki Gamble about fame, reality TV and his recent novel The TV Time Travellers.

It’s been quite a while since we last had a proper conversation ab ...

Chris Mould went to art school at the age of sixteen. During this time, he did various jobs, from delivering papers to washing-up. He has won the Nottingham Children's Book Award and been commended for the Sheffield. He loves his work and likes to write and draw the kind of books that he would have liked to have on his shelf as a boy. He is married with two children and li ...

Meg Rosoff grew up near Boston, Massachusetts, studied at Harvard University and Central St Martins School of Art and has lived in London since 1989. She worked as an advertising copywriter before taking two months’ unpaid leave from work in 2001 to find out if she could write a novel. She wrote a pony book, which she decided not to publish – “I loved pony sto ...

Keith Gray was born and brought up in Grimsby and knew from an early age that he wanted to be a writer. When he received 0% for his accountancy exams he decided to pursue his dream. He has since gone on to win the Angus Book Award and the silver medal in the Smarties Prize. He has twice been shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Priz ...

James Patterson, dubbed "the man who can't miss" by Time magazine:

• Holds the New York Times bestsellers list record* with 39 New York Times bestselling titles overall.
• s responsible for one out of every fifteen hardcover novels sold in 2007.

In 2007, an estimated 16 million James Patterson books were sold in the United States alone–more than ...

Maite Carranza studied Anthropology and worked as a teacher. In 1992 she began to write full time. She has received several awards including EDEBA children’s literature prize and has written more than 40 books for young readers. Maite lives in Barcelona, Spain.

In this interview Maite Carranze answers Louise Ellis-Barrett&rsqu ...