A motorcyclist and former rock band roadie turned Anglican minister, G.P. Taylor has been hailed as “hotter than Potter” and “the new C.S. Lewis”. His first novel Shadowmancer, reached #1 on the bestseller list in 2004 and has been translated in to forty-eight languages. His other novels include Wormwood (another New York Times bestseller, which was nominated for a Quill book award), The Shadowmancer Returns: The Curse of Salamander Street, Tersias The Oracle, Mariah Mundi: The Midas Box, The Dopple Ganger Chronicles and YHWH: The Flood, The Fish and the Giant. Worldwide sales for Taylor’s books now reach more than 3 million copies.

G.P. Taylor is a passionate advocate of reading and visits around 250 schools each year talking to some 20,000 children, aiming to get them interested in books.

He currently lives in North Yorkshire with his wife and three children.

Rosie: Note To Self was Claire Connor’s debut novel co-authored with G.P. Taylor. Before going to work as PA for the New York Times bestselling children’s author, and plucking up the courage to show him some of her writing, Claire worked for the Birmingham-based charity Catholic Student Council before becoming lay chaplain at King’s College London School of Medicine. Claire returned to North Yorkshire to live with her parents when she found out she was pregnant and then later retrained as a holistic therapist.

Single mum Claire has now signed a five-book publishing deal for a six figure sum and has also been in talks with film producers who are keen to buy the rights to the chick-lit book

Claire said, “For the past few years I’ve been juggling two jobs and bringing up my daughter while writing in my spare time, so to sign a five-book publishing deal is a dream come true.”

Claire’s hobbies include collecting shoes (43 pairs to date) and playing trombone in a swing band. She has a pathological hatred of balloons and a love of canal boats and coconut rum. She currently lives in Scarborough with her daughter Sophie.