Dougie Payne & Rachel Seago

Dougie Payne is the bass player and backing vocalist with multi-platinum selling Scottish indie band, TRAVIS.

Dougie was a graduate of Glasgow School of Art where he met the other members of Travis before joining the band on bass guitar, going on to record best-selling albums and selling out stadiums across the globe.

He has always read and written stories for his two children illustrating them himself, but was much more keen to develop his writing. In an effort to hone down his ideas he was mentored by award-winning author, Maisie Chan.

Poochie Pete is Dougie’s debut picture book.

After several years travelling the world working freelance from wherever Rachel Seago could find wifi, she finally settled (for now) in her home country of Scotland. Rachel’s main focus is children’s illustration and creates the majority of her work digitally. Rachel’s inspiration is drawn from nature, places she’s been and people she’s seen.

Rachel has illustrated the Lola and Larch series of chapter books published by Nosy Crow.

Poochie Pete, is Rachel’s debut picture book.