Simon Appleby

Simon is the Principal Editor and Webmaster for Bookdagger.com, Bookhugger.co.uk, Bookgeeks.co.uk and Bookbreeze.

A prolific reviewer on Bookgeeks, he collaborates closely with a number of publishers on competitions and giveaways, reading groups, author interviews and other features.

He is a keen reader of many types of writing, both fiction and non-fiction. The most unusual book on his shelves is an Estonian first edition of The Colour of Magic, signed by Sir Terry Pratchett.

Mathew F. Riley

Mathew is the Editorial Director for Bookdagger.com, Bookhugger.co.uk, Bookgeeks.co.uk and Bookbreeze.

He has several short stories forthcoming in spooky genre publications such as All Hallows, Necrography, Dark Horizons and New Horizons. His story Seems Only Right won the 2008 British Fantasy Society’s Short Story Competition. He’s also the Media Reviews Editor for Prism, the newsletter of the British Fantasy Society.

He reads and reviews across a range of genres, especially enjoying the new wave of British nature writers. The most unusual book on his shelves is a signed, slip-cased, leather bound, 26 copy edition of Scary Rednecks, by Weston Ochse and David Whitman. He is killed in one of the stories…

For more information, please visit his website.

Martin Edwards

Martin Edwards is an award-winning crime writer whose fourth and most recent Lake District Mystery, featuring DCI Hannah Scarlett and Daniel Kind, is The Serpent Pool, published in February 2010. Earlier books in the series are The Coffin Trail (short-listed for the Theakston’s prize for best British crime novel of 2006), The Cipher Garden and The Arsenic Labyrinth (short-listed for the Lakeland Book of the Year award in 2008.)

He has written eight novels about lawyer Harry Devlin, the first of which, All the Lonely People, was short-listed for the CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger for the best first crime novel of the year. In addition he has written a stand-alone novel of psychological suspense, Take My Breath Away, and a much acclaimed novel featuring Dr Crippen, Dancing for the Hangman. The latest Devlin novel, Waterloo Sunset, appeared in 2008. He completed Bill Knox’s last book, The Lazarus Widow. He has published a collection of short stories, Where Do You Find Your Ideas? and other stories; ‘Test Drive’ was short-listed for the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2006, while ‘The Bookbinder’s Apprentice’ won the same Dagger in 2008.

A well-known commentator on crime fiction, he has edited 16 anthologies and published eight non-fiction books, including a study of homicide investigation, Urge to Kill. In 2008 he was elected to membership of the prestigious Detection Club. In his spare time he is a partner in a North West law firm. His website is www.martinedwardsbooks.com and his blog www.doyouwriteunderyourownname.blogspot.com.

George Miller

George produces many of the audio and video features that appear on Bookdagger.

After nearly twenty years as a non-fiction editor, he yielded to the long-felt desire to become an interviewer and set up Podularity.com, a website devoted to author interviews, in 2007. Since then, his interviewees have ranged from Orhan Pamuk and Philip Pullman to Tony Benn and former Baader-Meinhof member, Astrid Proll.