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Esme Symes-Smith

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After cutting their teeth on a steady diet of fanfiction in the South-West of England, Esme Symes-Smith wandered north to Wales for their degree in Literature and Creative Writing then promptly migrated to Missouri after meeting their wife on Tumblr.

Esme has been a ghost-writer, an editor, a frozen-yogurt seller, a caffeine dealer, and now wrangles pre-schoolers for a living.

They are nonbinary and have a severe tea problem.

SIR CALLIE AND THE CHAMPIONS OF HELSTON is their debut middle-grade novel, slated for Fall 2022 with the launch of Penguin Random House's new imprint, Labyrinth Road, with a second book in the series coming later.
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“That's what I like best about Eyrewood—everyone there says what they mean and means what they say. No games. No complications. No weird tones that make my gut twist. The world is full of enough scary things, Neal says. It's a waste of time being afraid of your friends.”
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“who got sick of the sea but longs for real sunshine and decent food,”
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“Knowledge is the greatest weapon against prejudice,” she told me once when I asked why she worked so obsessively. “I am never going to be caught unarmed again.”
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