Rori Montford is an award winning designer and illustrator of tabletop roleplaying games. She is known for thoughtful and beautiful games for solo players, with optional group play, requiring no preparation or game leader. Her most recent game is Asher’s Ridge, where you create episodes of a paranormal drama television show in the style of Twin Peaks or The X-Files in a remote area of the Lake District.

Everything she makes is 100% human made, from start to finish.

I am a freelance artist and self-publisher of small illustrated books. My books range from experimental mark-marking to short, dark, humorous tales. More recently I have focused on themes of nature and horror… still with an amusing slant! My latest book, created in collaboration with writer Claire Blakemore, introduces you to the otherworldly.

I discovered my writing voice in English at the turn of the millennium after a thirty-year-long nervous breakdown.

I’ve had a colourful, vibrant life not only as a single mother of four and intermittent wife/lover, but also on the stage as an opera and tango singer and actress.

As a Colombian woman of colour my work explores race as a social phenomenon, in particular the experience of internalised racism and the subtle undertows of its development within each of us, through our upbringing in a post-colonial global culture; as well as the different aspects of misogyny that pervade all levels of society, even amongst the most conscientious and well meaning individuals.

At the 2026 OIBF I will be launching and signing copies of the latest edition of the full Physics of Passion trilogy, which explores these essential themes, reflected through a prism comprising the facets of science, spirituality and relationships.
Joining me will be:

Anila Syed brings a distinctive voice that moves effortlessly between literary fiction and children’s books. Her genre-defying collection Prompted showcases her imaginative storytelling, alongside a growing body of work for younger readers.

Italian author Renata Lanzoni, whose novel Shattered Moon draws on real-life experience to tell a gripping story of abuse, resilience and survival on a tropical island. She is also the author of the travel guides Oxford in One Afternoon and The Light-Packer’s Guide: Globetrotting on Bare Essentials.

As a disabled teenager, Sarah R. New identified strongly with monstrous female characters, but couldn’t quite find herself reflected in her favourite genre. Twenty years on, she’s crafting her own narratives, using personal experiences to thrill and scare readers. She is the host of film analysis podcast Anatomy of a Horror Film, and regularly writes about film analysis on her Substack, naturalis mutant. Her first novella, Gothic horror Amissis Liberis, was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2024, followed by body-and-mind horror novella, Hypochondria in 2026. Her most recent novella, animalistic thriller CATFOOD, was released in June 2026.

“Results Department Editorial Services is run by Helen Johns, an award-winning copywriter and supplier of editorial services in Oxfordshire.

Helen can edit your book for publication, whether it’s fiction, biography or memoir, or non-fiction. She’ll check for consistency, clarity, and relevance; ensure grammar, syntax, diction, spelling and punctuation are correct; reduce over-long sentences; double-check that text references and footnotes are accurate; remove unwanted formatting, and check fonts are consistent.

Helen is also a first-class proofreader: checking for spelling and punctuation errors in headings and body copy; reviewing consistency of headings, references and pagination; ensuring fonts are consistent; dealing with missing or repeated text; and ensuring captions and source references are correct.”

Author of character-driven dark fantasy about human bonds formed in adversity shaped by folklore, ecological realism and history. Sarah spent a decade studying Traditional English Martial Arts in order to write better fight scenes.

Latest book ‘Flesh and Blood’ releases 6th October.

Vampire Richard Dawes has spent years trying to outrun the monster he fears he is. When he wakes beside the bodies of three murdered strangers with blood on his lips and no memory of the night before, he is convinced he has once more crossed the line.

Ecologist Samantha Woods returns home to find her family slaughtered in what police believe was a vampire attack. When suspicion falls on her late father, a renowned vampirologist, Samantha sets out to clear his name.

To uncover the truth, the woman searching for her family’s killer and the man who believes he is that killer will have to work together.

And with calls for a nationwide vampire cull intensifying, exposing what really happened may be the only way to stop it.