Laura Watton has been creating her own manga for many years, and her stories have been published by Tokyopop and Sweatdrop Studios. She has contributed to several how-to books (including The Shoujo Manga Fashion Drawing Book and How to Draw Manga Made Easy) and writes a regular Manga School feature in Neo magazine. Making indie art and comic books, Laura also publishes BiomechaComic.com, one of the UK's earliest forays into Japanese-inspired indie comics, and runs PinkAppleJam.com. She lives in the UK.