Enchanted Mist

Linda Chapman lives in Leicestershire with her husband, three children and three dogs. She is the author of the phenomenally successful My Secret Unicorn series, Unicorn School, and Genie Us! (with author Steve Cole). Find out more about Linda's books at lindachapman.co.uk Linda Chapman was born in 1969. Before before becoming a full-time writer in 1999, she had many jobs including being a teacher, stage manager, book-seller, university researcher and dog trainer. She has written over seventy books for children including the My Secret Unicorn, Stardust and Not Quite a Mermaid series. Linda lives in a village in Leicestershire with her family and two Bernese Mountain dogs. When she is not writing she spends her time looking afer her two young daughters, reading, putting on plays and horse riding.

Kim Barnes is the author of IN THE KINGDOM OF MEN, a novel set in 1960s Saudi Arabia. She is also the author of A COUNTRY CALLED HOME, FINDING CARUSO, and two memoirs, IN THE WILDERNESS: COMING OF AGE IN UNKNOWN COUNTRY, finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize; and HUNGRY FOR THE WORLD. She is the co-editor with Mary Clearman Blew of CIRCLE OF WOMEN: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY WESTERN WOMEN WRITERS, and with Claire Davis of KISS TOMORROW HELLO: NOTES FROM THE MIDLIFE UNDERGROUND BY TWENTY-FIVE WOMEN OVER FORTY. Her essays, stories, and poems have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including GEORGIA REVIEW, SHENANDOAH, MORE MAGAZINE, O MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORK TIMES, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. She teaches writing at the University of Idaho and lives with her husband, the poet, Robert Wrigley, on Moscow Mountain.