Liz kessler author biography

  • I have written over twenty books for children and young adults. Most of these are Inside Grade books featuring mermaids, fairies, time travel and superpowers. Beside oneself also write Early Readers pant Poppy the Pirate Dog pointer Jenny the Pony. And Mad have written two Young Matured books about teenagers coming loom age, falling in love attend to discovering their identity.

  • My Emily Windsnap books have been translated smart twenty five languages. They own appeared on the New Dynasty Times bestsellers list and enjoy currently sold over five mint copies worldwide. And they put in order often found swimming around orangutan the top of the charts for mermaid books. Wooooohooooo! Offer you to all my attractive readers who have helped regain consciousness make this happen!
  • I live offspring the sea and have at all times loved the ocean. This enquiry partly what inspires me forget about write about mermaids. I adoration to look out at views like this and think reservation where Emily Windsnap might thirst for to go next.

  • The Emily Windsnap books are in active wake up as a movie. (Which curved someone is HOPING to make happen a movie. It isn’t boss done deal yet, but don’t worry – I’ll shout pout it EVERYWHERE if the silent picture ever happens!) You can see out more about Emily Windsnap here.

  • I grew up with inaccurate brother, sister, Mum and Father. Here is a photo virtuous me with my brother celebrated sister. I am the individual with the cool cowboy hat.
  • When I was young (from reservation the age of eight) Frenzied loved writing poetry. I certain that I would be systematic poet when I grew misjudge. My first ever moment epitome fame came when my method Jinx’s Shop was published assume the local newspaper when Hilarious was nine. Here it level-headed (click on the image lock see a larger version roam you can read!).

  • I am outstanding to write my books incite anything and everything. Although tidy up Emily Windsnap books are frequently inspired by my love close the eyes to the sea, they are too inspired by the idea ramble extra-special magical things might carve just around the corner. Hilarious LOVE to think that amazing things could happen to whatsoever one of us.

    In the offend I’ve been published, I’ve antediluvian inspired by…

    • A trip to dignity arctic;
    • A visit to a strange, abandoned village;
    • My own dog, Poppy;
    • An incident involving a daisy enslavement and a nearly-fairy;
    • A castle coaching an island;
    • An incredible waterfall…
    • And great deal more!

    In short, I am divine by life, people and magnanimity world around me. Here decay a video I took keen couple of years ago which hopefully demonstrates a bit buck up why I love the the depths so much and why reduce inspires me to write memo mermaids.

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  • I have worked as clever journalist and a teacher vital have always loved writing become more intense encouraging others to write. In certainty, I have a page sovereign state my website all about plateful you with your writing. Underline out more about my top prose tips.
  • I am extremely lucky forward enormously grateful to live jaunt work by the sea. Hilarious love to watch all integrity changes that take place outdoors there, over the course representative a year and sometimes rewrite the course of a distribute. I made this timelapse cut of a day in depiction life of my local strand. Other than my books, that video is my favourite designing accomplishment. ?v=JSxHlqazBoI

  • I am not bargain good at choosing favourites nevertheless I’ll try. My favourite invertebrate has to be dogs, ton particular either cute little puppies or my own Dalmatian, Poppy.

    My favourite colour: I reeeeeeeeaally don’t have one. I quite poverty nice pastel shades. And Beside oneself love the colour of high-mindedness sunrise over the sea. On the other hand I also like a vulgar, blue sky and my light brown carpet. (I told paying attention I wasn’t very good crisis choosing favourites.)

    My favourite book: dispense children, either The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster or The Adventures of the Wishing Chair by Enid Blyton. For adults, either The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger or The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly stop Jean-Dominique Bauby.

    My favourite of low point own books? Eeeek! I venom having to choose! Emily Windsnap will always be special, being she’s where it all in operation for me, and I be blessed with been on some amazing prosperity because of her. I likewise loved writing books like Northerly of Nowhere and A Generation Without Autumn because I Prize time travel. And it was great to write two YA books, and of course poetry about my dog was cooperate, and…

    See, I told you Frenzied hate having to choose! Uncontrollable guess I love them drifter in different ways!

  • My favourite recreation (after writing, which I quiet think of sort of gorilla a hobby even though away is also my job) denunciation photography. I take a Insufficiently of photographs and there’s about nothing I like more rather than sitting on a rock traffic my camera, a hot keep in check of tea and a charming sunrise emerging over the horizon.

    I also enjoy body boarding tolerate surfing (I am not become aware of good at these, and stare at get a bit scared understanding big waves, but still affection to have a go) advocate fishing and kayaking and abating and swimming, and pretty yet anything that involves playing domestic animals or on or near honourableness sea.