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Read Me Like a Book (2016) and Haunt Me were both nominated for the Kernow Youth Book Awards, Haunt Me won in 2018.

Now Liz Kessler has officially released 9 books in the Emily Windsnap series.Ī Year Without Autumn was the first of three planned "stand alone" novels that "all deal in some way with time travel" North of Nowhere was the second. The Emily Windsnap series was #10 on the New York Times Best Seller list for a new release in a children's series on. Now Emily and her newly found friend Shona Silkfin embark on a trip through the mermaid realm to find out the truth about her, her father and mother, and the unusual Mr. However, her mother appears to remember nothing about mermaids or even Emily's own father. Emily is a semi-mer which means when fully immersed in water she has a mermaid's tail but when she is on land she has human legs.

When Emily takes swimming lessons, she finds out something she did not know about herself. The Emily Windsnap series of children's novels features a 12-year-old girl who lives alone with her mother on a boat by the seaside. Many of her books have been translated into German and her 2021 title When the World Was Ours was nominated for the 2023 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis by the youth jury. She has written Young Adult books suitable for older audiences (12+), such as Haunt me that addresses topics of suicide and depression. Her children's books are written at a level suitable for schoolchildren in grades 4 to 7. She is represented by the Felicity Bryan Literary Agency, and her books are published by Orion Children's Books. She did a brief interview with the BBC about creative writing. Liz was also a journalist working on local and regional newspapers in both York and Manchester.

She has worked as a teacher, teaching English and Media Studies, and has also run Creative Writing courses. Liz Kessler studied English at Loughborough University, then did a teaching qualification at Keele University, and more recently did a Masters in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Liz Kessler grew up in Southport in the North West of England, and has lived in Manchester and Cheshire.

Liz Kessler (Born 15 October 1966) is an English writer of children's books, most notably a series about a half- mermaid named Emily Windsnap.