Shelagh Watkins, who set up Published Authors groups on LinkedIn and Goodreads, is administrator of the Published Authors Forum and creator of the Published Authors Network. She is also group leader for Children’s Fiction on LibraryThing and the author of two novels. In September 2008, Shelagh published and edited the anthology, Forever Friends.

Her first novel, Mr. Planemaker’s Flying Machine, was recently serialised on Preston FM community radio.