Melinda Salisbury is the author of The Sin Eater's Daughter, The Sleeping Prince and The Scarecrow Queen. Her novel The Sin Eater's Daughter was nominated for multiple national and international awards, including the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the YA Book Prize, the Carnegie Medal, and the Edgar Awards Best YA in the United States. She has also collaborated with seven other bestselling and award-winning young adult authors to create Floored.