A dark, dramatic background is a gift for a gothic fantasy author, and it suited Cass perfectly. Cassidy Ellis Salter is a fantasy writer who lives in London, by their own account with a pile of bones and historical oddities rescued from the Thames for company. They have published the middle grade novels The Bone Snatcher and Where the Woods End, and their gothic fantasy These Shattered Spires, the first in the Wyrdos trilogy, arrives from Bloomsbury in 2026.

For the Bio Author Portrait Package we shot in studio against a dark background, a look that leans straight into the atmosphere of their writing. The lighting separates Cass cleanly from the background for a confident, literary portrait that works on a book jacket, a festival listing or a publisher page.

A strong author portrait travels with your name and your work for years. For a writer of dark, atmospheric fiction, an image with real mood and presence does exactly the right job. If you write and want a portrait that suits your genre, see the author portrait page.