Marcel Vaarmeijer is a writer and freelance journalist. He has worked as a telegraph operator in the Royal Navy and at Shell. He made his debut in the student magazine Propria Cures and since 1989 he has published poems, stories and novels. His first children’s book, Boom, Away!, about the fireworks disaster in Enschede, was published in 2007. Both Wendy’s Mother (2012) and Su-Su-Superstar (2013) were selected as Core Titles by young readers. He has since published three novels, a detective story, and three children’s books. The Glory Days of Walter Gom is his first novel for adults. See an interview (in Dutch) with Marcel Vaarmeijer during the book launch of his second novel and read his personal website (Dutch).