J R PotterJ.R. Potter is the award-winning author and illustrator of Thomas Creeper and the Gloomsbury Secret, the first adventure in the macabre world of Gloomsbury, Massachusetts. The novel won the 2019 Kraken Prize for Middle Grade Fiction is now featured i libraries from San Francisco to Saudi Arabia and included in two teaching curricula in the United States and the Dominican Republic. His graphic novel work has been published by Image Comics, and his short fiction has appeared in the The Portland Review and various fiction anthologies. When not composing the next Thomas Creeper mystery, Potter writes and illustrates teen fiction for educational publishers Pioneer Valley Books and Heinemann Publishing, helping to boost literacy, empathy, and wonder in schools across the world. Read More Read Less