About Ben Jeapes
Ben Jeapes has been a full-time ghostwriter since 2015 and was already writing for publication long before that, while holding down day jobs in publishing (social sciences, I.T., medicine, science fiction) and technical communications. Under his own name he has had five novels and eighteen short stories professionally published, and three self-published, all in the genre of science fiction, fantasy and adventure.
As well as this, his children’s biography ADA LOVELACE (David Fickling Books 2019) was chosen by the National Science Teaching Association as one of the Best STEM Books of 2021. As Sebastian Rook he wrote THE VAMPIRE PLAGUES for Working Partners (Scholastic 2004), and as a ghostwriter he has written over fifty books for children and young adults.
His destiny as a young adult writer came completely by surprise, when his agent sold his first novel to Scholastic. Becoming a ghostwriter also happened quite unexpectedly, when his Working Partners editor changed jobs and inherited a celebrity-authored series that needed a writer. After that the sideline just grew and grew until eventually he could go full time. Most of his work has been in fiction, but he also wrote the biography of reformed criminal-turned-Christian evangelist Allen Langham, TAMING OF A VILLAIN (Lion Hudson 2019).
Ben knows he was writing stories at least as early as age 7 because he remembers doing so getting in the way of lessons. This set the pattern for writing interrupting his education all the way through Sherborne School and the University of Warwick, but somehow he still emerged with a degree in Philosophy & Politics. He now lives near Oxford, which suits him perfectly as a place where anyone with publishing and writing skills is unlikely to starve.
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