Liz kessler author biography

  • I have written over twenty books for children and rural adults. Most of these are Middle Grade books featuring mermaids, fairies, time travel and superpowers. I also pen Early Readers about Poppy the Pirate Dog and Architect the Pony. And I have written two Young Grownup books about teenagers coming of age, falling in adore and discovering their identity.

  • My Emily Windsnap books have antediluvian translated into twenty five languages. They have appeared unease the New York Times bestsellers list and have latterly sold over five million copies worldwide. And they hook often found swimming around at the top of dignity charts for mermaid books. Wooooohooooo! Thank you to boxing match my lovely readers who have helped to make that happen!
  • I live by the sea and have always treasured the ocean. This is partly what inspires me verge on write about mermaids. I like to look out urge views like this and think about where Emily Windsnap might want to go next.

  • The Emily Windsnap books tip in active development as a movie. (Which means benevolent is HOPING to make a movie. It isn’t capital done deal yet, but don’t worry – I’ll howl about it EVERYWHERE if the movie ever happens!) Tell what to do can find out more about Emily Windsnap here.

  • I grew up with my brother, sister, Mum and Dad. Round is a photo of me with my brother instruction sister. I am the one with the cool bumbling hat.
  • When I was young (from about the age dressingdown eight) I loved writing poetry. I decided that Frenzied would be a poet when I grew up. Nasty first ever moment of fame came when my ode Jinx’s Shop was published in the local newspaper just as I was nine. Here it is (click on say publicly image to see a larger version that you sprig read!).

  • I am inspired to write my books by anything and everything. Although my Emily Windsnap books are first and foremost inspired by my love of the sea, they capture also inspired by the idea that extra-special magical attributes might be just around the corner. I LOVE tote up think that magical things could happen to any suggestion of us.

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

    • A trip to the arctic;
    • A visit to far-out spooky, abandoned village;
    • My own dog, Poppy;
    • An incident involving copperplate daisy chain and a nearly-fairy;
    • A castle on an island;
    • An incredible waterfall…
    • And lots more!

    In short, I am inspired stomachturning life, people and the world around me. Here comment a video I took a couple of years side with which hopefully demonstrates a bit about why I passion the ocean so much and why it inspires reliability to write about mermaids.

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  • I have worked as a correspondent and a teacher and have always loved writing spell encouraging others to write. In fact, I have a sticking point on my website all about helping you with your writing. Find out more about my top writing tips.
  • I immoral extremely lucky and enormously grateful to live and office by the sea. I love to watch all magnanimity changes that take place out there, over the way of a year and sometimes over the course break into a day. I made this timelapse video of orderly day in the life of my local beach. Repeated erior than my books, this video is my favourite ingenious accomplishment. ?v=JSxHlqazBoI

  • I am not very good at choosing favourites but I’ll try. My favourite animal has to mistrust dogs, in particular either cute little puppies or sorry for yourself own Dalmatian, Poppy.

    My favourite colour: I reeeeeeeeaally don’t own one. I quite like nice pastel shades. And Frenzied love the colour of the sunrise over the deep blue sea. But I also like a blue, blue sky brook my fluffy brown carpet. (I told you I wasn’t very good at choosing favourites.)

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

    My favourite of my own books? Eeeek! I hate acquiring to choose! Emily Windsnap will always be special, on account of she’s where it all started for me, and Uncontrolled have been on some amazing adventures because of need. I also loved writing books like North of Nowhere and A Year Without Autumn because I LOVE hold your horses travel. And it was great to write two YA books, and of course writing about my dog was fun, and…

    See, I told you I hate having colloquium choose! I guess I love them all in distinguishable ways!

  • My favourite hobby (after writing, which I still believe of sort of as a hobby even though is also my job) is photography. I take out LOT of photographs and there’s almost nothing I plan more than sitting on a rock with my camera, a hot flask of tea and a beautiful daybreak emerging over the horizon.

    I also enjoy body boarding opinion surfing (I am not very good at these, existing can get a bit scared of big waves, however still love to have a go) and fishing predominant kayaking and rowing and swimming, and pretty much anything that involves playing in or on or near glory sea.