Maureen Fergus Author Biography
As a kid, I never dreamed of being a writer. I enjoyed Language Arts, but Science and Math were by far my favourite subjects in school. After high school, I attended university, earned an Honours Bachelor of Science and a Master of Business Administration and embarked on a business career that has included senior management positions in the aerospace, bio-pharmaceutical and financial services industries. I got married at 28 and had three babies in the next three-and-a-half years.
I tried writing fiction for the first time when my eldest daughter was six weeks old. As I reached out to type my first words, it felt as though I were slipping my hands into a pair of gloves that had been waiting for me my whole life. From that moment forward I wrote every single week. It took me ten years to get my first book published and you don't even want to know how many rejection letters I received along the way.
To date, I've had six novels and four picture books published, and they've been translated into more than half a dozen languages. I find writing exhilarating, frustrating, satisfying, exhausting and hard. I can't imagine life without it.
Dusan Petricic Illustrator Biography
Dusan Petricic is the award-winning illustrator of more than twenty books for children including Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes published by Bloomsbury in September 2004. A former professor of illustration and book design, Petricic’s work appears in The New York Times, Scientific American, The Wall Street Journal, and The Toronto Star. He lives in Toronto.
