The Team

Ruby Stark - Author
Ruby spent most of her childhood in Africa and carries vivid memories of bright red, velvet backed beetles crawling over the wet earth after the rain and moths caught across the bright chrome of the car radiator, their delicate wings spread wide, for close inspection. For many years, Ruby has taught ballet and other forms of dance to young children. In her classes she weaves stories through the music and movement and has been inspired to draw on bugs and insects by the insatiable curiosity shown by the children for anything that crawled along the studio floor. In recent years, Ruby has put many of these bug stories to pen, thus creating Bugbites, a series of illustrated fictional stories about bugs and insects.

Chloe Elliott - Illustrator
Chloe is nineteen and has had a pen glued to her hand for as long as she can remember. She has taken every opportunity she could to draw. Chloe has completed an art foundation degree at Kingston and is now starting a BA Hons Illustration degree.

In her spare time, Chloe enjoys doing location drawings and painting. She has completed various commissions and sells her painting locally. Chloe swam for her County Team and also loves fashion, photography and sport.

On a recent trip to Costa Rica, Chloe was inspired to develop and expand her creative ideas and techniques. She loves to use illustration to reveal what lies beneath. Chloe’s favourite bug is a caterpillar - she is fascinated by their extraordinary colours.

Gill Driver - Manager
Gill didn’t want her photograph on the website. I don’t know why as she’s really beautiful. So, we decided to show you her hands instead. These are the fingers which speed and skim over the keys to make sure the books are printed, shipped and delivered to us and then sent on to you.

Gill loves answering all your emails and she particularly likes to talk - just like Woody Woodlouse.