Ross MacKenzie is an award-winning Scottish children's author whose book The Nowhere Emporium (2018) was the winner of the Scottish Children's Book Award 2016 and the Blue Peter Book Award 2016. To date there are two more books in the series, The Elsewhere Emporium and The Otherwhere Emporium. He has also written books in a new series including Evernight and Feast of the Evernight. His latest book is The Uninvited (2025). MacKenzie lives near Glasgow with his wife, daughters and their cocker spaniel, though he spends much of his spare time in another world.
Hollie Taylor is a London-based actress. She is the voice of Rebecca in animation series Bat Pat, Eddie in Little People (HIT/Mattel) and stars in new Disney Channel animation series Best Bugs Forever. Hollie trained at Arts Educational School London, where she received a First Class BA Hons Degree. Her work in theatre includes Goodnight Mister Tom (West End/UK Tour), Matilda the Musical (RSC), Betty Blue Eyes (Original Cast at the Novello Theatre), Fame the Musical and the original revival cast of Oliver! at Theatre Royal Drury Lane.