Angie Featherstone loves writing and is a copywriter in an advertising agency. She has fun with words all day long while working with creative people, manic deadlines and clients. Her first book The Little Nightingale Who Can’t Sing is one of the 14 books under the First-Time Writers & Illustrators Publishing Initiative Jointly organised by the National Book Development Council of Singapore and the Media Development Authority.


Keith Flynn is the author of three collections of poetry: The Talking Drum (1991), The Book of Monsters (1994), and The Lost Sea (2000). From 1987-1998, he was lyricist and lead singer for a rock band, The Crystal Zoo, which produced three albums. His poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies around the world, including The Colorado Review, The Cuirt Journal (Ireland), Poetry Wales, The Southern Poetry Review and Shenandoah. He has been awarded the Sandburg Prize for poetry, and received numerous Pushcart nominations. Flynn is the founder and managing editor of The Asheville Poetry Review.


In 2006, Adeline received the inaugural First Time Writers & Illustrators Publishing Initiative grant given by the Media Development Authority of Singapore and the National Book Development Council of Singapore. Identified by the media authorities as one of Singapore’s forerunners in children’s book writing, she has received support to publish four books featuring denizens of a tropical rainforest.

Following the success of the first book, which was adapted into a cartoon and aired on national TV and showcased at an animation fair in MIPCOM, Cannes, Adeline was supported by the National Heritage Board in 2008 to develop a series of stories for young readers showcasing the unique Chinese-Malay-European immigrant hybrid culture of the Peranakans. She is also working on a series of five new books based on the genre of “Monsters in the Mind”, with four artists of different nationalities, to be launched at the Bologna Book Fair.