After studying Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, she went on to complete Curtis Brown Creative’s Writing for Children course. Melissa writes speculative fiction about how the End Of The World is never really the end of the world. In Episode 26 of The Book Chain Project, Chrissie Sains, author of 'An Alien in the Jam Factory', chats with Melissa Welliver, author of 'The Undying Tower'. ******* Last Interview: Chrissie Sains interviewed Melissa Welliver ******* When not writing, her favourite things are basketball, swimming in the sea and eating ice cream.īuy 'The Astonishing Future of Alex Nobody ' : Let's keep the chain going as long as we can! Her writing for children is inspired by her love of all three of these topics. In 2015 she moved to London where she works as a publicist for science, philosophy and history books. It was while daydreaming during a philosophy of time travel seminar at The University of Edinburgh that she first had the idea for her debut book, The Astonishing Future of Alex Nobody. Kate Gilby Smith was born on the sunny island of Guernsey.

In Episode 27 of the Book Chain project Melissa Welliver, author of 'The Undying Tower', chats with Kate Smith, author of 'The Astonishing Future of Alex Nobody '. To be the first to hear about schedule and news ******* Last Interview: Kate Smith interviewed Sade Fadipe ******* Let's keep the chain going as long as we can! Her bi-cultural identity weaves through the realistic-fiction picture books She creates for primary-aged readers.īuy 'The Astonishing Future of Alex Nobody ' : After teaching in London for close to two decades, she spent time out in Nigeria where she initiated a training program for teachers on the skill of reading. She started out her career as a linguist and later followed her passion by taking on a post-graduate in Education. Sade started writing in 2009 and just a few months after had signed her first book contract with Cassava Republic Press. In Episode 28 of The Book Chain Project, our last interview episode of Series 1, Kate Gilby Smith interviews Sade Fadipe, author of 'A Bouncy 123'.

Mina and the Undead by Amy McCaw