Meddling Kids (Cantero) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—May 27, 1981
• Where—Barcelona, Spain
• Education—N/A
• Awards—Joan Crexells Prize-Best Novel
• Currently—lives in Barcelona, Spain


Edgar Cantanero is a Spanish caetoonist and writer born in Barcelona where he still lives and writes in Spanish, Catalonia (an ancient Romance languge), and English. His first book, Dormir amb Winona Ryder (2007, Sleeping with Winona Ryder), was awarded the Joan Crexells prize for best novel of 2007. It was followed by Vallvi (2011), a punk dystopian thriller

His first U.S. novel (and third book), Supernatural Enhancements, came out in 2014 as a paranormal mystery. It's first-person narrative incorporates journals, postcard images, sketches, and audio-video transcripts. For the most part, the novel received favorable reviews with Kirkus calling it "quirky" and "good fun throughout."

As Cantero recounts on his blog, his second English novel, was the result of a January, 2015, luncheon in New York. He was in the midst of pitching a new book idea to his publisher when he made a rash promise to deliver a finished manuscript in eight months. The only thing, Cantero was bluffing.

Yet to his own amazement, at the end of eight months, he acutally completed the project. That book became Meddling Kids, released in 2017. The story—surrounding members of a former kid's detective club who are now young adults—contains elements of H.P. Lovecraft, as well as Scooby Doo and the Hardy Boys. (From varoius online sources.)