Nikki Gamble is Founder and Director of Just Imagine and Associate Consultant at UCL's Institute of Education. She has worked extensively in schools across the UK and internationally, most recently managing a project for the London Schools Excellence Fund with a focus on developing excellence in teaching reading at KS2 and KS3. Nikki is author of Exploring Children's Literature and co-author of Guiding Readers. She serves on the National Councilof UKLA. Lorraine Gregory is co-founder of #ukmgchat, which enables writers, agents, editors and publishers of fiction for 8-12 year olds to share their experience and expertise. After mentoring at the Golden Egg Academyshe was signed up by the Viney Shaw Agency, and saw her first book, Mold and the Poison Plot, publish in 2017.