LD Lapinski

LD Lapinski is the best-selling author of the Artezans trilogy, JAMIE, the Stepfather Christmas duology, and The Strangeworlds Travel Agency series. Their books have been nominated for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing, the Diverse Book Awards and Polari Prize, and have been twice selected as part of the Empathy Lab UK collection. LD has also written for the BBC’s Doctor Who novels, the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook, and The Book of Hopes. All of LD’s books published in North America have been awarded a Kirkus Star, and are published around the world in eighteen languages.

LD is a PGCE-qualified teacher with an MA in Creative Writing. They have done countless school and library visits since 2020, and have been part of BBC Authors Live, Aye Write, MCM Comic Con, CYMERA, and the Waterstones' Children's Book Festival, amongst others. LD has led courses with Bloomsbury Institute, Moniack Mhor, and Pop Up Projects Ltd. Their sessions focus on a range of subjects from the life of an author, to writing representation, world-building,  graphic novel construction and more.

The first volume of LD's debut YA graphic novel Kickflip, created with illustrator Logan Hanning, was published in 2025, and nominated for the Carnegie Medal. LD's first science-fiction novel for adults, Some Body Like Me, was published by Gollancz, and named a 'Best Fiction Book of 2025' by New Scientist.