About the Authors

Debbie Lau

Debbie loves to eat and watch shows on Netflix. Her favorite school subject is art! She likes comics and novels. The books she reads most are her favourite comics, Garfield, and her favorite book series, The Thea Sisters.

Ella Choe

Ella has lived in Hong Kong for all of her life and has been enrolled in the LEAP program since 2020. Recently, Ella has enjoyed writing opinion pieces about the school and investigative journalism articles. Some of Ella's favorite things to do in her free time are reading books, watching TV shows, and playing with her dog, Rocky.

Hugo Earnshaw-Saran

Hugo Earnshaw-Saran enjoys writing, worldbuilding, storytelling and good humour, along with loving his two dogs, MJ and Zora. He particularly enjoys writing Science Fiction, Fantasy and Mystery books, and this has been evident over the past few years of his LEAP writing. Hugo wants to be a video game company founder and CEO in the future.

Jack Zhang Runbai

Jack Zhang is currently part of LEAP and the Learning Extension program. In FSA, a higher math acceleration program, Jack is currently studying High School Geometry. Jack has many hobbies, mostly relating to math, computer science, and public transport. He also plays a few games. Jack has been programming on his computer since Grade 1, and he is currently familiar with many different programming languages, such as Python, Java, and Swift. He is currently experimenting with tools like OpenGL and attempting to learn x86 Assembly (Jack has a vision for his own operating system). Jack sometimes plays Cities Skylines 2, a city-builder game with a realistic simulation engine, and he enjoys every aspect of it. When Jack is seen playing video games, however, he is usually playing Minecraft, and he commonly builds railway networks with the Minecraft Transit Railway Mod. He is also interested in automating processes in the game with two popular mods, Create and Gregtech (his favorite modpack is GTNH, if you have heard of it). Of course, it wouldn’t be Jack if he didn’t also learn computational redstone (computers and logic in Minecraft), would it?

Jonathan Wang

Jonathan Junze Wang is caring, loves reading, and is curious about everything. Sometimes he thinks like a philosopher who seems to already understand the laws of the universe. Sometimes he acts like a 3-year-old who drives his mum crazy with endless questions.. Either way he is, and always will be, deeply loved.

Jonathan Wong

Jonathan loves reading fiction and playing video games. He enjoys his Media Tech lessons at school. He wants to become a video game programmer when he grows up. His favourite colour is blue. In his free time, you will find him relaxing at home, reading the most exciting titles.

Jeremy Yang

Jeremy is a keen writer and has previously published stories in both books and newspapers. Jeremy has thoroughly enjoyed writing his short story and can't wait to get started on the next one to add to his growing collection.

Maverick Lau

Maverick likes to play video games. His favorite book is Dog Man. His favorite sports are soccer and basketball. He loves watching Marvel on the TV.

Nathalie Ho

Nathalie enjoys reading and creative writing. She has a little sister who studies at Victoria Shanghai Academy. Nathalie plays tennis and loves swimming, and has an unstoppable appetite for candy and chips.

Nayantara Sinha

Nayantara loves books like Percy Jackson and Harry Potter. She wants to be a video game maker and coder. Her favorite subjects are Media Tech and Library. She likes ice cream and chocolate and best of all, she likes writing.

Nichole Shah

Nicole lives in Hong Kong and goes to the Harbour School. This is her first time participating in the LEAP programme. Apart from writing, she also enjoys drawing, painting and listening to music in her free time.

Sameer Taher

Sameer enjoys reading. His favorite authors are; Dav Pilkey, Jeff Kinney, JK Rowling, and Roald Dahl!

Zahaan Bhappu

Zahaan lives in Hong Kong but was born in India. He lives with his mum and dad. He likes to read and play with Legos.

Rae Walters

Rae was born in Hong Kong then moved to Taiwan when she was six years old. After one year, her family moved back to Hong Kong and they have been there ever since. She lives with her mom and dad, and her dog, a samoyed named Pavlova.

Rae likes to read books about animals, like the book series Warriors. Warriors is about cats in different clans fighting each other She finds the names of the clans, like Wind and Fire, very interesting. She also likes books by Roald Dahl and David Walliams like The World's Worst Pets. In addition, she does a lot of sports like gymnastics, hiking, and horseback riding.

Arial Chan

Arial Chan loves to write fantasy stories and read them too. A few of her favorite books are the Keepers of The Lost Cities series and Where’s Wally books. In her spare time, she likes to draw and play video games.

Phoebe James

Phoebe is a human who is obsessed with cats. She has two cats that are very fluffy and nothing like the main character in this book. She really likes writing and reading books, but most of the time, when she writes stories, she never finishes them. She is from England and moved from London to HK last year.

Elizabeth James

Elizabeth loves animals, especially cats, and has two pet cats. She loves to write, and almost always her stories are about animals. She also enjoys doing aerial silks and playing games. Her favorite animal is actually a panda (not a cat!), and her favourite colours are pink and yellow.

Kiaan Talwar

Kiaan i enjoys reading, particularly works by his favorite authors, Jeff Kinney and Liz Pichon. He is also fascinated by Indian mythology and loves reading the Panchatantra stories, which are an ancient collection of fables. Kiaan's passion for reading makes his parents very proud, although it can sometimes be a challenge to get his attention when he is engrossed in a book. In addition to reading, he enjoys playing chess and cricket.

Iston Wan

Iston Wan specializes in random obscure bits of knowledge from any fan group. Writing is his hobby, and he enjoys singing and acting in his free time. His favourite thing about writing stories is seeing where different internet rabbit holes can lead him. He loves playing mahjong and escape rooms, since he can watch his friends break down in both of said games. He has been writing a story since seventh grade and still does not have a good title, but he knows the title will come to him one day.