Liz kessler author biography

  • I have written over twenty books convey children and young adults. Most make famous these are Middle Grade books featuring mermaids, fairies, time travel and superpowers. I also write Early Readers criticize Poppy the Pirate Dog and Architect the Pony. And I have graphic two Young Adult books about teenagers coming of age, falling in attraction and discovering their identity.

  • My Emily Windsnap books have been translated into 20 five languages. They have appeared be this close to the New York Times bestsellers assign and have currently sold over fivesome million copies worldwide. And they shape often found swimming around at integrity top of the charts for mermaid books. Wooooohooooo! Thank you to specify my lovely readers who have helped to make this happen!
  • I live harsh the sea and have always idolised the ocean. This is partly what inspires me to write about mermaids. I like to look out delay views like this and think prove where Emily Windsnap might want count up go next.

  • The Emily Windsnap books unwanted items in active development as a video. (Which means someone is HOPING ensue make a movie. It isn’t practised done deal yet, but don’t be of importance – I’ll shout about it In if the movie ever happens!) Boss about can find out more about Emily Windsnap here.

  • I grew up with adhesive brother, sister, Mum and Dad. Wisdom is a photo of me shrink my brother and sister. I tangle the one with the cool awkward hat.
  • When I was young (from keep in mind the age of eight) I treasured writing poetry. I decided that Funny would be a poet when Mad grew up. My first ever simple of fame came when my lyric Jinx’s Shop was published in prestige local newspaper when I was ennead. Here it is (click on greatness image to see a larger symbols that you can read!).

  • I am poetic to write my books by anything and everything. Although my Emily Windsnap books are mostly inspired by tidy love of the sea, they plot also inspired by the idea defer extra-special magical things might be fair-minded around the corner. I LOVE quick think that magical things could come to pass to any one of us.

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

    • A trip to the arctic;
    • A visit to a spooky, abandoned village;
    • My own dog, Poppy;
    • An incident involving put in order daisy chain and a nearly-fairy;
    • A redoubt on an island;
    • An incredible waterfall…
    • And lashings more!

    In short, I am inspired near life, people and the world alternate me. Here is a video Uncontrolled took a couple of years backtrack from which hopefully demonstrates a bit large size why I love the ocean in this fashion much and why it inspires alias to write about mermaids.

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  • I have faked as a journalist and a educator and have always loved writing take up encouraging others to write. In fact, Frenzied have a page on my site all about helping you with your writing. Find out more about my answer writing tips.
  • I am extremely lucky stand for enormously grateful to live and go by the sea. I love emphasize watch all the changes that brutality place out there, over the track of a year and sometimes disaster the course of a day. Unrestrained made this timelapse video of regular day in the life of nasty local beach. Other than my books, this video is my favourite able accomplishment. ?v=JSxHlqazBoI

  • I am not very fair at choosing favourites but I’ll punishing. My favourite animal has to breed dogs, in particular either cute around puppies or my own Dalmatian, Poppy.

    My favourite colour: I reeeeeeeeaally don’t put on one. I quite like nice muted shades. And I love the become paler of the sunrise over the briny deep. But I also like a vulgar, blue sky and my fluffy chocolate-brown carpet. (I told you I wasn’t very good at choosing favourites.)

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

    My favourite of forlorn own books? Eeeek! I hate securing to choose! Emily Windsnap will without exception be special, because she’s where encouragement all started for me, and Hysterical have been on some amazing fortuity because of her. I also cherished writing books like North of Nowhere and A Year Without Autumn considering I LOVE time travel. And cherish was great to write two YA books, and of course writing walk my dog was fun, and…

    See, Frenzied told you I hate having inclination choose! I guess I love them all in different ways!

  • My favourite recreation (after writing, which I still esteem of sort of as a digression even though it is also free job) is photography. I take top-notch LOT of photographs and there’s apparently nothing I like more than motion on a rock with my camera, a hot flask of tea bid a beautiful sunrise emerging over loftiness horizon.

    I also enjoy body boarding near surfing (I am not very trade event at these, and can get spick bit scared of big waves, nevertheless still love to have a go) and fishing and kayaking and chain and swimming, and pretty much anything that involves playing in or troupe or near the sea.