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Sheila M. Averbuch is a former journalist who's interviewed billionaires, hackers and would-be Mars colonists. She co-founded the Scotland network of SCBWI and is author of the middle-grade thriller FRIEND ME, published in 2020 with Scholastic US. She holds a 2019 New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust. ...more

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