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Alex Summers is a queer and neurodivergent writer from Milton Keynes, who now lives in London with his partner. When he is not writing, he is reading or swimming. The Stand-in Dad is his first novel.

Kate Storey started her career teaching English and Drama, and when she had her family, combined all three to write novels about family drama. Originally from Yorkshire, she now lives in a London suburb with her husband and two teenage daughters, so expects there’s plenty more drama to come.

Stefanie London is a USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance.

Her books have been called “genuinely entertaining and memorable” by Booklist, and her writing praised as “elegant, descriptive and delectable” by RT Magazine.

Originally from Australia, she now lives in Toronto with her very own hero and is doing her best to travel the world. She frequently indulges her passions for lipstick, good coffee, books and anything zombie related.

Embassie Susberry is a practicing attorney in Chicago, but when she’s not doing her day job, she’s reading or writing what she wants to read.
Code Name Butterfly is Embassie’s first traditionally published novel. She has over 2000 reviews for her self-published novels on Amazon with average ratings of 4.7 stars.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian writer of fiction and short stories, who inspired the clinical category of ‘Masochism’. His complex sexual fantasies, involving the love of pain and submission, ignited a once secretive pursuit into that of a recognised fetish. His masterpiece inspired a famous song of the same name by The Velvet Underground, and continues to be referred to as a defining work within the realm of erotic literature.

James Steel is a writer and journalist based in the UK.

SARA SHERIDAN is a historical novelist who writes
the Mirabelle Bevan Mysteries, plus epics based on
the real-life adventures of Victorian explorers. Her
novel On Starlit Seas was shortlisted for the Wilbur
Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2017. Fascinated
by women’s history, she appears regularly on
television and radio. She has been named one of
the Saltire Society’s 365 most influential women
past and present.