Chris Wooding started writing when he was 16 years old, and his first novel, Crashing, was published when he was 19 years old. Since then, he's published dozens of novels in a variety of genres, including the award-winning The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, Poison, Storm Thief, the Malice series, the graphic novel Pandemonium, Silver, and Velocity, as well as the graphic novel Pandemonium, Silver, and Velocity.