Nell Bramley

My grandmother did the newspaper crossword in pen every morning and never once looked at the answers. I've been trying to be that cool ever since.

I make puzzle books for people who like to figure things out with a pencil. My first is The Logic Casebook: 80 small mysteries about mixed-up parcels, missing labels, and what happened first. It starts easy and gets trickier as you go.

I don't like being stuck with nobody to ask, so every case has two hints you can peek at one at a time, and a full solution that shows how to get there. There's no shame in peeking. My grandmother would disagree.

I live in an old house with terrible Wi-Fi, which might be why I love anything you can do with a pencil. There's usually one behind my ear. I can never find the others.