English teacher Martin Griffin was deputy head at The Blue Coat School in Oldham till this summer, before deciding to take a year out of teaching to focus on his writing.
He won the prestigious Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition in 2012, figuring out storylines on his 45-minute drive to and from work and writing at least 1,500 words a week during term-time.
His winning novel, The Poison Boy, was published by Chicken House in 2013 under the pseudonym of Fletcher Moss. The book is aimed at 10 to 12-year-olds and tells the story of a lowly food taster who has a lucky escape after drinking laced wine.
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