Louie Stowell was born in London and has lived there ever since, except for a short stint in Watford to study advertising. She's worked as a copywriter, cartoonist, PR and in-house fiction writer, and was Publisher at Ladybird/Penguin Random House before writing full-time.Her 2019 debut, The Dragon in the Library , was followed by The Monster in the Lake in 2020 and The Wizard in the Wood in 2021. Otherland , a standalone middle-grade novel, followed in 2021. The first book in her series, Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good , was an instant #3 Sunday Times (UK) Bestseller.