Louise Dean is the Founder and CEO of The Novelry. Louise has been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was the winner of Le Prince Maurice Prize and the Betty Trask Prize, as well as being nominated for other awards and a finalist for the Costa Book Awards short story prize. Louise graduated from Cambridge University in History and worked in advertising in London, Hong Kong and New York before becoming an author. Her novels have been published by Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House worldwide. In 2017, the Bookseller announced a challenge for writers to join her to write their novels in ninety days, and The Novelry was born.