Master storytellers Author Janelle McCurdy and Sinéad O’Hart share the magic of world-making and celebrate their fierce female characters! Strong female characters live at the heart of Janelle’s Mia and the Lightcasters and Sinéad’s The Time Tider where their bold and brave leading ladies learn to face their fears and save the ones they love.

Mia and the Lightcasters introduces us to Mia, and her life inside the sturdy walls of Nubis. Mia has always dreamed of being an ‘umbra tamer’ but her first encounter with the wild creature on the Nightmare Plains was nothing like she expected.

In The Time Tider, Mara discovers that her dad is more extraordinary than she could have ever imagined but he is kidnapped before she can ask him what it means to be a Tider.

Janelle McCurdy is an author and fully-fledged gamer. In her free time, you can find her holed-up in her room, gaming and watching anime or attending numerous comic cons and gaming events.

Sinéad O’Hart was raised in a small house full of books in the South-East of Ireland. She has a degree in Medieval English and has had many careers (including butcher, bookseller, and university lecturer). She now lives in Meath, with an ever-expanding book collection.