Hsien W Lou is a South African author, who enjoys writing dark, humorous, speculative fiction and romance. She has written four books so far: Sparked: The Beginning, Sparked 2: The Variation, Cocooned Love, Nameless the Hitman, and is in the process of writing others -The Silversmiths, Camouflaged Love, Eastern Sorcery and Mental Delusion. She is also developing Sparked and Cocooned Love into comics. Her favourite authors include, Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams. She likes to describe herself as an author, a human, and a living organism.