About Us
Hello, we're Steve and Diana Kimpton - the people behind The Word Pool. We enjoy designing and building websites and hope you'll let us build one for you.
Diana is a children's author with 22 books published so far and more in the pipeline. She also writes scripts for animation. It's that background which triggered our enthusiasm for the world of books - a place we've found to be full of delightful real people as well as imaginary dragons, schoolboy wizards and talking teddy bears.
Steve is the technical half of the partnership. His many years experience in the computer industry have given him a confidence and expertise which is invaluable in tackling web based projects. He's also good at explaining technical stuff in words even the most computer illiterate person can understand.
Our original Word Pool site is now a well established, award winning source of information for anyone interested in choosing or writing children's books. The UK Children's Books Directory is a natural development from that and reflects the growing interest in author and illustrator websites.
Developing and running these two sites has taught as a great deal about publicising books on the Internet - experience which is invaluable when building sites for other people.
Please note:
All material on this site is copyright to us but we are often willing
to give permission for appropriate re-use. If you would like to include
one of our articles in your newsletter or website, please contact us.