FLORA WOOD

Flora was born and raised in the depths of rural Wales; she credits this remote setting (and her inability to drive during her teenage years) as her motivation to start writing - boredom is sometimes the best inspiration. 

Flora graduated with a BA in English Literature from the University of East Anglia. She then moved to London to work for Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, first as a Rights Assistant and now as a Rights Executive. Flora is currently writing a middle-grade novel.

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/florawood

Twitter: @FloraaWood 

Instagram: @florawoodwriter

Website: https://woodflorawood.wixsite.com/florawoodwriter

Sarah has for the last 15 years balanced her writing career alongside teaching. Her teaching started in the UK, took her to France for a brief period and then back to the UK.

Sarah has written for various magazines which has focused on Nordic culture and the arts. This included many articles and interviews with Nordic authors leading to the creation of an online magazine called 'Nordophile'.

A Presence of Absence was Sarah's first fiction book which was co-wrote with a fellow author and explored the police practices between the Danish and British police whilst dealing with the subject of grief. This theme carried on into her first children's book 'The Heavy Bag' which explores grief and loss. 

'The Heavy Bag' has been translated into many languages worldwide and is used in collaboration with sections of UNICEF.

Her writing transcends between children's and adult fiction, usually pulled from context and situation surrounding her at the time.

Sarah is Yorkshire born, London bred and Bath residing with her husband and four daughters.

Twitter: @SarahSurgeysaid

Instagram: @sarahsurgeywriter

Website: sarahsurgey.com 

Sarah is a Londoner living in Tasmania. At the age of thirty-one, she achieved a First-Class degree in English with Creative Writing.  

Sarah is a fan of the theatre and has acted in several plays over the years. She has a husband, two teenagers, three birds and two dogs. Her house is a mess.   

She loves reading, music and is rather partial to a gin and tonic. Sarah is published by Whisper and her debut novel, ‘Billy Lemonade’, is available from Amazon in paperback or ebook.

She is thrilled to be part of the InterSaga team with her second YA fantasy, ‘What the Knocker-Upper Woke Up’.

Scarlett de Courcier grew up in a French-Romani family in Scotland, living in a caravan until her mother joined a Christian fundamentalist cult when she was eight years old. At seventeen, Scarlett fled the cult and moved to London, where she set up a new life for herself in a falling-down basement flat. 

She worked for seven years as a computer crime investigator, specialising in child protection, and in 2012 set up Bohemiacademia, a freelance agency for online content creators which she still runs today. 

Scarlett's academic background is in psychology of religion, and she is currently studying for a Master's in Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent's University, London. She has upgraded to a slightly less falling-down flat on the first floor, where she lives with her cat, Pangur Bán.

Angela has spent 23 years teaching primary-aged children, and also works as a Pilates instructor in Jersey. With a background in acting, Kate has taught in post 16 education for the past 22 years in Devon, where she lives. Sharing concerns about the lack of empowering female characters in early years fiction has inspired them to begin writing. 

Kaydia’s working life has been spent in art and design, covering interiors, illustration and fashion. She is an avid fan of anything artisan, craft orientated, handmade and beautiful! She lives in Jersey with her husband and daughter.

Co-authors, Angela and Kate, and illustrator, Kaydia, are currently collaborating on a series of adventure stories for young children based in Jersey, in the Channel Islands. 

Sienna and her Surfing adventures is the first in the series. The aim is to engage very young readers in accessible, humorous, exciting stories in which the female protagonists, and their friends, are active, problem solving, dynamic individuals with wide ranging interests.   
 

Sienna and her Surfing Adventures is in production. More details to follow later this year. 

Jane was four years old when her father refused to accept that it was this particular child who had scratched a yacht into the new wallpaper and signed her name, saying that, ‘the writing was too good.’ Taking this to be a positive omen, Jane has embarked on a writing career after years of being a professional musician and interior designer. A lifetime of eavesdropping other people’s conversations has helped shape a fascination into character and the interplay of relationships which is reflected in her fiction. 

Gently Pouring Petrol, introducing Rachel Harrison, is Jane’s debut novel. She is currently working towards completing her third novel: The Updoing of Marjorie Taylor.
 

When she’s not writing, Jane is usually playing her saxophone somewhere or pounding the lanes of rural Norfolk. On the rare occasions she manages to sleep, she dreams of having time to do more dressmaking.

You can find Jane on Twitter @jawywa