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Dr Craig Cormick OAM is the author of over 30 books for adults and children, several of them winning awards. He is a member of the Children’s Book Council of Australia. Dr Cormick has a son on the autism spectrum.  Lauren Mullinder has had a passion for drawing ever since she was able to hold a pencil. Lauren lives in Adelaide, Australia with her husband and dog Charlie and loves spending time in nature with a sketchbook in hand.

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Lucy Corry is an award-winning New Zealand writer who loves to cook, eat, read and think about food. Her work has featured in Canvas, Sunday, Your Weekend, Frankie, Cuisine, NZ Life & Leisure, Nadia Journal and Gourmet Traveller, nzherald.co.nz, Stuff.co.nz and radionz.co.nz. In 2019 she was named Food Communicator of the Year and Best Opinion Writer at the inaugural New Zealand Food Media Awards. She is the current President of Food Writers NZ and in recent years has co-authored the Ockham award winning Hiakai-Modern Maori Cuisine and written the much-loved Burger Wellington cookbook. Lucy lives in central Wellington with her husband and daughter and Cosmo the dog, who destroys all her vegetable-growing efforts on a regular basis. www.thekitchenmaid.com www.instagram.com/thekitchenmaid

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Charis Cotter is an award-winning writer and storyteller. She has worked extensively in schools telling Newfoundland ghost stories and encouraging students to collect local ghost stories from their communities. In 2013 she published The Ghosts of Baccalieu, a book of traditional ghost stories by students from Tricon Elementary in Bay de Verde. She reviews childrens books for the National Reading Campaign, Quill and Quire, Canadian Childrens Book News, and Atlantic Books Today. Charis continues to entertain children and adults with her ghost storytelling and writing workshops at schools, community centres and book festivals across Canada and the United States. Her latest storytelling presentation, The Ghosts of Grates Cove, is an hour of ghost stories from one of the most haunted places in Newfoundland: Conception Bay North, where she lives. "Born and raised in Newfoundland, Jenny Dwyer has been steeped in the region's culture her entire life. An artist and a teacher, she has received several local honours for her compelling, hyper-realistic artwork. Footsteps in Bay de Verde is her first illustrated book. She lives in Maddox Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, in a house overlooking the sea."

Guy Cotter is a New Zealand-born mountain climber and internationally qualified mountain guide. Guy has climbed to the summit of Mt Everest five times, has climbed seven of the world's fourteen 8,000 metres peaks, and has climbed the Seven Summits. Guy is the owner of one of the world's premier mountain-guiding companies, Adventure Consultants Ltd, based in Wanaka, New Zealand. Guy also contracts to the film industry as a locations scout, mountain safety coordinator, alpine advisor and high-altitude camera operator. He is a passionate skier, rock climber and mountain biker, and has published a climbing instruction manual 'A Climbers Guide'.