Fran Jacobs is 28 years old, she graduated from the University of Nottingham with a Masters degree in Ancient History and now lives in Edinburgh. She runs her own online gothic website and lives at home with her cats, Megaera and Mr Kitty. She mostly writes fantasy, with a penchant for the darker side of it, and he novel, the Shadow Seer, Book One of Ellenessia’s Curse, has just been accepted for publication by Silver Lake, small print publishers.