Vince Cross
VINCE CROSS has had an interesting and varied career…
In 1980, he left behind a promising career teaching religious education to teenagers with every intention of becoming a writer. But the lure of rock’n’roll proved too great, and he passed the next decade and a half stoking the ‘star-maker machinery
of popular song’. On the way he wrote and produced million-selling cassettes of music for children, composed the music for an acclaimed TV animation eventually sold to more than fifty countries, and penned the words and music for a number of stage shows which have wowed holidaying crowds at Butlins’ holiday camps.
He has managed a professional recording studio, written jingles and TV commercials, and composed and arranged the music for more than 4,000 songs which today help millions of children learn English all around the globe. Now he happily combines continuing to develop such materials with being
Director of Music at his parish church, and developing a writing career.
Vince’s first children’s novel was published in 1997 by Piccadilly Books. He has since published a number of books – both fiction and non-fiction – on all sorts of subjects such as
sports, music and history, for publishers including Scholastic, John Hunt, OUP and Macmillan.
Vince has now joined Lion Children’s list with his satirical novel for young teenagers, The A Club. Abi Goodenough is 13. She’s nice. Bright. Talented. And every adult in Abi’s life has just so many good ideas about how she should spend her time. Making them feel good, of course!