Carmen has spent most of her life with ink on her fingers and a dangerously high pile of books and newspapers by her side.

She has worked as a newspaper reporter on two continents and always dreamt of becoming a novelist and screenwriter.

When she found herself crouched under her dining table, typing away on a novel between two earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, she realised she was hooked for life.

The shaken but stirring novel made it to the longlist of the Mslexia competition, and her next book and first mystery, The Case Of The Missing Bride, was a finalist in the Malice Domestic competition in a year without a winner. Since then she has penned several more cozy mysteries, including the Jack and Frances series set in the 1930s.

Carmen now lives in Italy with her human and her four-legged family.

Links:

Website - www.carmenradtke.com

Facebook - www.facebook.com/Carmen-Radtke-1958399947738868/

Twitter:@CarmenRadtke1

Email - Carmenradtke01@gmail.com

Emma Pullar is an award-winning and bestselling writer of dark fiction and children's stories.

She's also a supporter of Bang2write, Into the Script, and The London Screenwriters' Festival.

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Saranne is a writer/director and producer who has worked in film as a hobby since 2009, and professionally since 2014. She has produced numerous shorts as well as features. in addition to this she also has a good track record as a director with shorts, features to her name as well as co-directing a documentary. Saranne is a very experienced editor too having worked on 16 films in post production. Much of the last year has been dedicated to "The Anthropocene Chronicles" project, in addition to the books there is a short film, named "Lavender's Blue," which is currently doing the festival circuit, whilst Saranne's previous short "Ménage du Trois" is still enjoying festival success. Saranne's previous films include the stop-motion animation"The Hunting of the Snark" based on Lewis Carroll's poem for which she wrote the screenplay in addition to directing!