Marco (who owns the hand in this picture) was born and raised in Italy, but is usually somewhere else in the world. The dog in the picture is Kevin, and you will find him inside Marco's debut novel too, The Shape of Magic.
They both live in Cambridge, UK. Marco is a designer by day and a writer also by day, as he is not a night owl anymore. In his books you will find a number of weird and wonderful things he fed to his hungry brain over the years, with a lot of heart added in for good measure.