Mina Baites has written stories for as long as she has been able to think, and she loves transporting her readers to new, mysterious worlds. She is the author of the novel The Silver Music Box, and she has published a number of successful contemporary romances under the pseudonym Anna Levin. She also cowrites historical novels set in her beloved Germany as one half of the pseudonymous author Gerit Bertram. Mina lives with her family in northern Germany and loves traveling.
Alison Layland is a novelist and translator from German, French, and Welsh into English. A member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting and the Society of Authors, she has won a number of prizes for her fiction writing and translation. Her debut novel, the literary thriller Someone Else’s Conflict, was published in 2014 by Honno Press, to be followed by her second, Riverflow, in early 2019. She has also translated a number of successful novels from German and French into English. She lives and works in the beautiful and inspiring countryside of Wales, United Kingdom.
