Maudie Powell-Tuck spends too much of her time in expensive shops looking at clothes and glittery things she can't afford, and dreaming about owning a pug named Stanley (when she's not writing, of course). She'd love to say that she runs marathons - but that would be a lie. Karl James Mountford was born in Germany and grew up in various places around the UK. He now lives in beautiful Carmarthen, in Wales, and works as an illustrator making picture books and screen prints, always leaving a paper trail of sketches and drawings wherever he goes.