Katherine Bassford was a copywriter and personal trainer, but she secretly wanted to live by the sea and write books. In 2013 she took the plunge and moved to a house a few minutes' walk from the Sussex coast. It worked! Her first non-fiction book Oh Sugar! was published in 2015 (recently released as Say No to Sugar), and her novel was shortlisted for the Times Children's Fiction Competition 2017. She's now busy writing a picture book; creating a range of greetings cards, prints and T-shirts; and writing about creativity on her blog.