Penny Batchelor is a psychological thriller author and co-founder of the Authors with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses (ADCI) Literary Prize. She got her first book deal after taking a PWA novel writing course and is keen to introduce other DCI people to the joy of creative writing. She is the author of two psychological thrillers…

After graduating as an alumna of the Faber Academy’s Writing a Novel course, AJ Campbell published her debut novel Leave Well Alone in July 2020 which became an Amazon bestseller. Readers lucky enough to have received a pre-release copy, described it as ‘a gripping story with a killer twist’. AJ draws inspiration from many facets of everyday life and especially how challenging events impact us all in different ways.…

Caroline is a bestselling writer with nine works of fiction published in the UK and internationally. Her acclaimed debut novel In Search of Adam was published in 2007 (The Friday Project/HarperCollins) and won the Michael Schmidt Prize for Novel. Since then she has written six additional novels, all published by HarperCollins. These include the international bestseller Like Bees To Honey,…

Kristen Loesch grew up in San Francisco and Seattle. She holds a Master’s degree in Slavonic Studies from the University of Cambridge, where she also completed not-quite-half of a PhD. Her work has been longlisted for the 2019 Bath Novel Award and shortlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award 2020. The Porcelain Doll is her first story publication. Recently…

Joanna Cannon started writing her Sunday Times bestselling debut novel The Trouble with Goats and Sheep (The Borough Press 2016) on our online Writing a Novel course with Faber Academy. It sold more than 250,000 copies in the UK alone and has been published in 15 countries. The novel was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, shortlisted for The Bookseller Industry…