Liverpool born Bob Stone is an author and bookshop owner. He has been writing for as long as he could hold a pen and some would say his handwriting has never improved. He is the author of two self-published children’s books, A Bushy Tale and A Bushy Tale: The Brush Off. Missing Beat, the first in a trilogy for Young Adults, was his first full-length novel and was followed by Beat Surrender and Perfect Beat, completing the trilogy. A complementary novella Out of Season was first published in the Beaten Track anthology Seasons of Love and then as a paperback in its own right. Since then he has had a children's picture book, Faith's Fairy House, published by Beaten Track and self-published his first adult novel Letting the Stars Go.

Bob still lives in Liverpool with his wife and cat and sees no reason to change any of that.