Authors

David Berger was the boy under the blanket reading books by flashlight when he should have been sleeping, and he hasn’t stopped reading since. His creative fires started by reading Greek mythology, the stories of Olympian gods and heroes sparking a conflagration of learning that took him through novels—sci-fi, fantasy, or whatever he could find—and that, coupled with his love of comic books, especially Wonder Woman, brought him to writing. The act of putting pen to paper gave him an outlet he had never had, and the inspiration of the Muses pushed him forward. His love of fantasy prompted writing a Greek myth fantasy series, Task Force: Gaea, a Celtic fantasy trilogy beginning with The Quest of Wyndracer and Fyrehunter, as well as an anthology of his own short fiction and poetry, Hippocrene’s Promise. When he’s not teaching or writing, he’s living his best fantasy life playing Dungeons & Dragons.

Short Biography of Manfred
Manfred is the author name for a Melbourne born writer who now lives in Copenhagen Denmark. Manfred has been writing for many years and Magic Mirabelle and the Riddle of Night Opium is his first novel in the YA Fantasy and Paranormal Romance genre. Manfred also has a degree in English literature and Philosophy from Copenhagen University and his main interests besides writing and Gold-Making are watching films, travelling to exotic places like India, reading Fairytales and Romances, playing the guitar and the piano and taking his pet dog Shimba for walks with his son Tristan by the beach or in the forest. His main writing influences are the Scottish Father of Fairytales George Macdonald, the Golden Dawn Occultist Dion Fortune, the Romantic Poet William Blake and all those amazing fantasy writers like James Barrie, C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowlings. Manfred's favourite foods are pizza, lasagne, vegetable pies and spicy Indian food. He also has an addiction to drinking hot chocolate and eating very rich and yummy cheese cakes!

About the book Magic Mirabelle and the Riddle of NightOpium.

If you like Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland and the Narnia and Harry Potter books, you are going to just love Magic Mirabelle and the Riddle of Night Opium. It all begins in East Finchley, London with Mirabelle making an innocent wish, with her mother and baby brother, and then discovering a Magic Box with a very mysterious riddle in it.

After Mirabelle receives the riddle, and tries to solve it, she is plunged into a strange and terrifying world of alchemy, sorcery and Shape Shifting enchantment. Here she finds herself not only part of a story but also part of the most dreadful game, played secretly by Witches for countless generations, called the Dungeons of Lethe.

In this game, the Wizard Night Opium, the mischievous Fairy Apricot Lantern, the Wise and kindly Father of Wishes and the cruel and manipulative Nightshade Faery are all playing either as Mirabelle's allies or enemies. Mirabelle soon learns that not only her own fate, but also that of everything she loves in the world around her hinges on the outcome of this game. The unexpected climax to both the game and the story, which takes place in London's historic centre of Westminster, will not only take your breath away, but will and leave you wondering as to whether or not there might be a secret other-world of magic and sorcery running parallel to the safe and familiar World around us - Here the fate of all things hangs on the outcome of a young Witch solving the Riddle of Night Opium.

I am from London, England now living in Germany.

I have been writing for many years. I have articles that have been published online, in magazines in the UK and have pen books that are available for purchase on Amazon.

I am currently working with a company in the U.S. who will be publishing my next book and converting it into an audio book.

Paul Vander Loos is an author, sub editor and journalist, living in the tropical coastal city of Mackay, on the central Queensland coast of Australia. He has produced numerous articles for newspapers and magazines, written many poems and short stories, and has published his books The Wizard’s Sword, Three Stones of Destiny, and The Gold Sarcophagus. He has also published a collection of poems called Spider on the Moon. 

C. L. Nichols retired from a career as a Computer Applications Programmer/Analyst. He is a lifelong musician who played for years in rock, country and variety bands and now plays guitar in his church band. He writes mostly speculative fiction.

I discovered my passion for writing at an early age and began publishing poetry in various anthologies.  In 2008, I became the primary writer for a local magazine and published my first novel, followed by six more in the years that have followed.  All of my books are sold through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online outlets.

Sue Wickstead lives in West Sussex, UK and writes children’s picture story books.

Her stories relate to both her experiences as a teacher as well as her play-work adventures with a bus.

The Playbus was a real double-decker bus full of toys, arts and crafts, as well as a lot of fun to play on. Sue wrote a photographic social history book about the project which led to her story telling and her writing. All of Sue’s books do have a bus included in them somewhere. Daisy Daydream was the bus that Sue painted and the start of her Playbus and writing journey.

When not writing Sue builds models with Lego (especially for her grandson), she loves spending quality time with her young grandson and enjoys creating models to share with him on his visits.

Her grandson features in the book ‘Barty Barton; the bear that was loved too much’ which was published in 2020. He also helps his Nanny Sue to sing along with a few of the rhymes sue has written.

Many of my books have been entered and shortlisted in ‘The Wishing Shelf Book Awards’, the book ‘A Spooky Tale’ was a silver medal winner in 2019. The story was written with her class in school.

Robert C Brewster is the author of eight fiction novels. There is also a non-fiction account of his time spending summers along the New Jersey shore in the late sixties and early seventies, called 'On the road to find out.' He is a writer/film actor/voice character specialist. Please visit www.robertcbrewster.com to find out all about him.