Bethan James is a writer, and former book publicist & marketer who grew up in south Wales.

She received an Arts Council England grant to write her speculative historical crime novel. Her work is shortlisted for the 2022 Rhys Davies Short Story Award. In 2021, Bethan was selected for the United Nations’ global feminist fairy tale retellings anthology ‘Awake Not Sleeping’, and she was a winner in Neil Gaiman’s Fables for a Modern World contest. Her published work includes Royal Society of Literature and Litro Magazine.

Bethan is a member of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London and she studied English & Philosophy at the University of Southampton. An identical twin, she’s fuelled by copious amounts of Earl Grey tea and Gothic stories. Literary agent: Harry Illingworth at DHH Agency.