Our Authors
Chris Turnbull
Chris was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire in England.
The eldest of two sons Chris originally wanted to become a dog groomer and trained in this field before working on a farm in the grooming room as well as helping with the dog hydrotherapy.
After a few years, Chris moved on and found a job at Bradford University working with PhD students in the Biology labs. Chris enjoyed nearly 7 years here before moving over to York University to take on a more senior role.
Chris now lives on the outskirts of York with his partner and their Jack Russell terrier.
Chris has written 5 books to date, some of which have reached the top 20 and above on the Amazon bestseller chart.
His book D: Whitby's Darkest Desire has been nominated by readers for a Best Indie book award 2016.
D M Singh
Dawn always found comfort in books as a child and from a young age and could be found reading or writing. Her first attempt at fiction was at 10 years old and was entitled Hippo In The House.
Dawn wrote and illustrated the book about a little girl, who returns home to find a Hippo in her bathtub and the trouble they get into trying to return the Hippo to the zoo.
This was a turning point as Dawn decided that from that moment on the only thing she wanted to do was write, she also decided that she would never be an illustrator as her drawing skills were somewhat lacking, to say the least
Fast forward a few years after school and Dawn married, had three children and completed a degree in counselling and psychology. She returned to writing in 2005 when she had an overwhelming flood of ideas for several stories and began writing immediately at every opportunity.
Dawn’s has released 2 books in the Regina trilogy as well as a stand-alone book. Dawn's debut novel Regina: The Monster inside hit number 10 on the Amazon best-seller charts last year in the UK as well as reaching number 8 in the US.
Since then Dawn has hit the Amazon best-sellers list an amazing 4 time. Regina: The Monster Inside was nominated for by readers for best YA indie book 2016. Dead Normal was also nominated and won a SIBA book award voted for by readers in summer 2017.
Dawn will be a guest at the 2018 Inspirational Women in Literature Conference in Sacramento. She will be joined by speakers such as Marylin Hawes (2017 inspirational woman of the year), as well as figures from Harpo, BBC and USA Today best-sellers.
Samantha Denison
Samantha Denison was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, where she still lives with her children and cats.
When she was 35 she decided to go into further education to gain a degree and a PGCE which lead to her becoming a special school teacher and an assistant head teacher, which gave her a unique insight into the lives of those living with a disability. She was ill health retired after receiving a diagnosis of Neuroferritinopathy, a rare, genetic, degenerative brain disease. Which is the inspiration for her writing.
Sam is a Christian and a firm believer that everything happens in Gods timing, which is perfect. She enjoys eating out and socialising, when the time allows in her busy life.
Samantha's book, A Shot to the Head, will be available to buy in 2017.
Dr. Ranjit Arora
Dr Ranjit Arora has worked in education all her life and has extensive experience of teaching, training teachers and supervising and guiding research in education. Until October 2001 she was Head of Multicultural Education & Research and Director of the Race Relations Research Unit at Bradford College. Since then she has worked as an independent Education and Management Consultant under the name of Arora Associates, offering special expertise in issues of Equality and Diversity. Her clients have included the Department for Education & Science (DfES), Universities UK's Equality Challenge Unit, Policy Research Institute on Ageing and Ethnicity (PRIAE), EU-funded project for Roma Integration in the Czech Republic and the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA). She has also been a Justice of Peace, Non-Executive Director with NHS Community Health Trust, a member of the ETAC Committee of the Judicial Studies Board, a Governor at the Leeds College of Music, Chair of South Asian Arts UK and a Co-Chair of the Equality Forum of Voluntary Sector Assembly in Bradford. Currently, she is serving as a Governor on the Council of Governors for Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust. Dr. Arora has contributed to a number of publications. Titles under her name include:
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Race and Ethnicity in Education, Ashgate Publishing, 2005 (Monitoring Change in Education Series)
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Multicultural Education: Towards Good Practice, Arora RK & Duncan, C (eds.) RKP1986
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Sikhism, Religion of the World Series, Wayland Press.1986
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Guru Nanak and the Sikh Gurus, Wayland Press.1986
This first book Mona’s Journey-Coming of Age is part of a Trilogy of Travels and Travails. It is about charting the personal life and adventures of teenage years and adulthood of a semi-fictional character. The second book will be about Mona’s Working Life and the third one will be about Mona’s Life of Leisure.
