Our Authors
Sarah Airriess
Sarah has always wanted to be a time traveller, but in lieu of the necessary scientific advances, she trained as an animator instead, which brought her gainful employment in Vancouver, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and London. While at her dream job, plugged as usual into BBC Radio 4, she heard a drama about a doomed expedition, and realised that her true purpose in life was to make a graphic novel of The Worst Journey in the World. Before long she threw away her career to move to Cambridge, where the Scott Polar Research Institute holds the expedition archives, and started work. In 2019, Sarah went to Antarctica with the NSF’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program in order to depict the place from first-hand experience. She currently lives in an ancient house with a thousand spiders and commutes back and forth from 1911 every day. Dreams really can come true.
The Worst Journey in the World website: https://worstjourney.com/
John Robert McMenemie was born in Cheshire, and studied architecture and English before relocating to London to pursue a career in music. He still writes songs and still draws buildings, but focuses mainly on writing fiction. His work has appeared in Sovereign, The Cabinet of Heed, and Storgy magazines, and been long listed for the Leicester Writes short story prize, and the Sandstone Press short fiction competition.
He lives in North London with his partner and their daughter. His first novel, Full Wire, was published by Indie Novella in January 2022.
J. R. McMenemie
Emma has always loved writing, but reconnected and fell in love with writing again during the COVID lockdown and also attended the Indie Novella writing course. A proud member of the LGBTQIA+ Community, Emma is passionate about diversity and representation in her writing, and exploring the complexity of relationship and friendship dynamics. Her debut novel, Dial One For Revenge is based on Emma’s reflections and experiences linked to revenge and finding yourself again through adversity.
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Outside writing, Emma is an avid reader and film fan, having studied Film at University. She is passionate about mental health, having trained as a qualified counsellor. She can be found on Twitter and Instagram @EmmaLBWrites
Emma Brand
Damien Mosley is an English-Sri Lankan writer and founder of the independent publisher and social enterprise, Indie Novella. A former journalist and aid worker, Damien set up Indie Novella as a space for writers to come together as a community and form a peer-editing network to publish high-quality novels with unique storylines that mainstream publishers had shied away from.
Joined Up is Damien's first novel and was published by Indie Novella in autumn 2021. He lives in Haringey, London.
Damien Mosley
Bruno Noble is a South London based writer whose first book, A Thing of the Moment, is a philosophical exploration of self and identity, inspired by the 20th century French writing schools of Le Nouveau Roman and Oulipo. Bruno is lover of Italian culture and historical research and and his second novel, The Colletta Cassettes, is combintation of both: part love story, part history of the USA’s involvement in post-WWII Italian politics. Bruno is a member of the Collier Street Fiction Group.
Bruno Noble
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David Turnbull writes what could best be described as 'Fantasy Fiction' - sometimes this includes a 'Sci-Fi' or a'Horror' slant. Some of what he write contains traditional folk tale elements and most has a bit of a political flavour to it. David has featured in numerous wonderful publications and presses such as Transmundane Press, Exaggerated Press and Midnight Street Press, and his novel, HUSks, builds upon his experience working with trade unions and is a story of ordinary people working on the front lines when a destructive pandemic hits.
David Turnbull
Karen Edwards is an American author who writes literary fiction with elements of suspense. Or contemporary fiction. Or as she likes to say, "Gritty fiction with heart". Karen is a former Kindergarten teacher turned kick-ass fiction writer. Somebody Knows Something is a literary suspense novella, published by Indie Novella in 2021 and is Karen's breakthrough as an international writer.
K. K. Edwards
Alex is an author of over two hundred books, mainly for young people, but also, lately, for adults. In non-fiction Alex has written on subjects as diverse as sharks, robots, asteroids, flying reptiles and chocolate. Alex also write novels and stories in the genres of science fiction, mystery, historical and horror. His adult fiction includes the psychological thriller Mr Jones, published by Indie Novella. He is co-author of a comic ‘novel-in-emails', Work in Progress, published by Unbound.