Penny Batchelor

Penny Batchelor is an alumna of the Faber Academy online ‘Writing a Novel’ course, a freelance journalist, a former BBC content producer and website editor for various educational institutions, and lives in Warwickshire with her husband. She writes a monthly column for The Bookseller magazine.

Penny is passionate about positive disability representation in fiction. One fifth of the UK population is disabled, so why don’t we see that reflected in novels? Along with publisher Clare Christian, Penny co-founded the ADCI Literary Prize for authors with a disability or chronic illness who write adult novels with one or more disabled characters.

Her thrillers My Perfect Sister and Her New Best Friend are published by Embla Books. She is currently enjoying writing fiendish plots, killer twists and jaw-dropping cliffhangers for two more Embla novels.

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