ABSTRACT
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“There was such a dearth of books featuring child protagonists of colour when I was growing up that, in my mid-twenties, I decided to try and do something about it. After two years and a vast number of rejection letters, I finally had my first book accepted for publication. I’ve been a full-time writer ever since. My aim has always been to make reading a more inclusive activity, an experience to be shared and enjoyed by all children where no child feels excluded or invisible. I write the books I missed as a child: thrillers, mysteries, whodunits, funny stories, horror stories, contemporary stories where the protagonists are Black. My greatest thrill is to receive letters from ex reluctant readers, telling me that one of my books has switched them on to reading. For me, there can be no greater compliment.”
