About Maverick
Maverick Publishing was launched in 2009 by Steve Bicknell. Maverick has gone from strength to strength developing a list with a strong emphasis on quality and encouraging children to enjoy reading. The early reader scheme has become a large part of Maverick’s publishing programme and is continuously growing. The scheme is built on using natural English to encourage children to read stories, which are written in a more familiar style of language. To find out more about how the scheme is built, click here.
- Meet the Team -
Steve BicknellManaging Director
Steve is the driving force behind Maverick, with a huge enthusiasm for everything he does. He delves into all aspects of the business but particularly handles the marketing and sales side.
Karen BicknellFinance Director
Karen keeps on top of the business finances and plays an important role in decision-making within the company.
Tessie Sangha Designer
Tessie works with Aimee on our new products. She also handles the design work at Maverick and is the voice behind Maverick's social media.
Kimara Nye Managing Editor
Kim has been with Maverick since the beginning. She runs the editorial side of the business, with a special focus on picture books.
India FauxJunior Editor
India works primarily on the early readers, often juggling working on many books at once. She not only works on the editorial side of the readers but also does the layouts and design.
Early Reader Authors
For our original texts we work with some fantastic authors, with a huge amount of experience either in writing for education or working within the education sector. We have a strict set of guidelines and all of our texts go through many checks before publication. We also adapt some of our picture books into early readers, you will find more information about the authors on our maverickbooks.co.uk page.
Here are the authors of our original early reader texts:
Alice Hemming
Cath Jones
Clare Helen Welsh
Elizabeth Dale
Heather Pindar
Jenny Jinks
Jill Atkins
Katie Dale
Lou Treleaven
