Simone Warren was born in Singapore in 1969, the third generation of Straits-born Chinese who migrated from China to ‘Si Lat Po’, a then British colony.
Simone left Singapore for Britain in 1989 to study English and Drama at Westfield College and the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London, whose illustrious alumni include Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. At university, she was President of the Creative Writing Society.
Simone has worked for global organisations including Siemens, BT, Alibaba and Microsoft, where she was a senior director running a multimillion-dollar Cloud Computing business. She lives in Cambridgeshire, UK, with her husband and two grown-up children.
Don Wilburn Jr. writes immersive, thought-provoking stories where hidden truths and human resilience collide. His books blend the sharp edge of reality with the wonder of imagination, inviting readers to question the unseen forces shaping our lives.
Don is the award-winning author of The God Protocol Trilogy, a near-term science fiction thriller series about the future of Artificial Intelligence. The God Protocol: Dragon earned First Place in the Chanticleer International Book Awards (Global Thriller category), and his short story Contact received an Honorable Mention from the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest.
Before becoming a full-time storyteller, Don spent 28 years serving as a U.S. Naval Officer and later as a senior leader w
