Holly Bourne is an author and a journalist. Holly's first two books, Soulmates and The Manifesto on How to be Interesting, have been critically acclaimed and translated into six languages.

The first book in the Spinster Club series, Am I Normal Yet?, was chosen as a World Book Night book for 2016 and was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize.

The Spinster Club series has also inspired the formation of Spinster Clubs across the UK and Ireland. Before becoming a full-time author, Holly was editor of TheSite.org - a charity-run advice and information website for young people.

Eleanor Wood is the author of YA novels My Secret Rockstar Boyfriend and Becoming Betty.

She lives in Brighton, where she can mostly be found hanging around in cafes and record shops, running on the beach, pretending to be French and/or that it's the 60s, and writing deep into the night. Her 'dayjob' is in academic publishing, and her work has previously been published in magazines such as Elle, Time Out and The Face.

Tanya Byrne is an award-winning author and freelance journalist who lives in Brighton. She has written three young adult novels, the first of which earned hera nomination for New Writer of the Year at the National Book Awards. She has also written for The Guardian and The Pool.

Sara Barnard lives in Brighton and does all her best writing on trains. She loves books, book people and book things. She has been writing ever since she was too small to reach the 'on' switch on the family's Amstrad computer. She gets her love of words from her dad, who made sure she always had books to read and introduced her to the wonders of second-hand bookshops at a young age.

Sara is trying to visit every country in Europe, and has managed to reach thirteen with her best friend. She has also lived in Canada and worked in India. Her debut novel Beautiful Broken Things was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and selected as part of Zoella's Book Club.

Melinda Salisbury was born in the 1980's in a landlocked city, before escaping to live by the sea.

As a child, she genuinely thought Roald Dahl's Matilda was her biography.

When she's not trying to unlock the hidden avenues of her mind, she's reading, writing, or travelling.

Lisa Williamson is the award-winning, bestselling author of The Art Of Being Normal, All About Mia and Paper Avalanche.

This is her first First Names title.

Non Pratt is a British author who started her career working on non-fiction activity books at Usborne, before becoming an editor at Catnip Publishing. Her debut novel Trouble was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and the Branford Boase Award, and long-listed for the Carnegie Medal, with rights sold to the USA, Germany and Brazil.

Her second novel, Remix came out in 2015 and a novella, Unboxed for Barrington Stoke came out in 2016. Her third novel with Walker Books, Truth or Dare came out in 2017.