Kingswraith: Taste no Pity is Derek E Pearson's second young adult fiction, after The Stone Gospel. As a Norwich School of Art graduate he's also illustrated children's stories including one on wildlife conservation, Tulsi the Tiget. And he's written a historical/romance fiction Celluloid Peach. Four of Pearson's novels are finalists in the international Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, including all three volumes in his science fiction/fantasy Preacher Spindrift series. Altogether he's written a dozen novels in that genre He has also worked in publishing and journalism, specialising in the dental industry with his online magazine Dental Review.