About the Author
Since Floodland won the Branford Boase Award for the best first children’s novel of 2000, Marcus Sedgwick’s books have been short-listed for many awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, the Blue Peter Book Award, the Carnegie Medal, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.
By day he works in children’s publishing, and by night he is the drummer in a rock band in Brighton. He lives in Sussex with his wife, Pippa, and has a daughter, Alice.
About My Swordhand Is Singing he says: “It was fascinating to discover the original folklore that gave birth to the vampire legend. No snowy graveyard is left unvisited, no corpse undisturbed, no spell unspoken, no date with destiny unmet. But it’s not all gloom; there are misery and horror, too.”