A.F. Steadman grew up in the Kent countryside, getting lost in fantasy worlds and scribbling stories in notebooks. Before focusing on writing, she worked in law, until she realized that there wasn’t nearly enough magic involved.
Skandar and the Unicorn Thief is her debut novel.
At the Waterstones blog Steadman tagged six "favourite children's books featuring richly imagined and beautifully realised mythical creatures. From beloved classics to exciting new stories," including:
Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. AlstonRead about another entry on the list.
Talking of friends, how about a mythical creature for a roommate? One of my favourite recent fantasy reads is Amari and the Night Brothers. When Amari Peters is invited to the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs she certainly comes across her fair share of mythical creatures – even her roommate is secretly a weredragon! I love the playfulness that Alston uses to imagine the mythical creatures Amari encounters in the Bureau: a bigfoot named Sir Francis Sasquatch III, a bored cyclops, flocks of fairies. It’s wonderful.
--Marshal Zeringue
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