ANDREW SMITH’s first professional writing was for radio and TV comedy sketch shows while he was still at school. In 1980, aged 17, he was commissioned to write a four part story, Full Circle, for Tom Baker’s final season as Doctor Who. Further writing included plays for TV and radio, and contributions to several comedy sketch shows, including Not The 9 O’Clock News and A Kick Up The Eighties. He also penned the novelisation of his Doctor Who story. In 1984 he joined London’s Metropolitan Police, from which he retired as a Chief Inspector in 2014. In recent years he has returned to writing, principally audio dramas for Big Finish Productions. Andrew was born and raised in Glasgow but now lives in London with his family.
DANIEL WEALANDS has, over the years, done many things including stints running comic book stores, being a cinema projectionist, a florist as well as having helped run charity music festivals and a pro wrestling promotion. Currently he is a full time mature student at Exeter University, where he is studying Film. He is also a founding member and committee member for the University’s Doctor Who Society and has organised two highly successful mini conventions with them. He has had articles published in student newspapers both in his home town of Newcastle Upon Tyne and Exeter as well as writing for Doctor Who news sites.
LEE RAWLINGS is a father, Radio DJ, professional comedy waiter, musician, actor, event organiser, librarian, fanzine editor and a writer. His latest contributions of fiction include short stories for The Terrors of the Théatre Diabolique and The 12 Doctors of Christmas, and non-fiction pieces are included in You and Who: Contact Has Been Made, Blake’s Heaven and Cygnus Alpha fanzine.
J.R. SOUTHALL is a columnist for Starburst Magazine and host of their Blue Box Podcast, as well as being a cat-loving, tea-drinking postman. His favourite film is A Matter of Life and Death and he once lost his head at five o’clock on a wintry morning and had to carry it all the way to A&E in the dark. When he grows up - as if that will ever happen – he would like to be a television pilot.
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DAN BARRATT has worked in the theatre for many years as a director, actor, singer and designer and has contributed work to the BBC Design Department at Television Centre and at BBC Elstree. In 2003, Dan appeared alongside Colin Baker’s Doctor in the Big Finish audio drama, Doctor Who & The Pirates directed by Barnaby Edwards. He later went on to work on both the 2005 and 2006 television series of Doctor Who as a Dalek Operator on the stories, Bad Wolf, Parting Of The Ways, Army Of Ghosts and Doomsday. Among Dan’s writing credits
are contributions to the anthologies The Twelve Doctors Of Christmas, Blake’s Heaven and Terrors Of The Théâtre Diabolique, a horror anthology project based on the films of the legendary Amicus Studios. Dan is a presenter on the Exeter based radio station, Phonic fm co-presenting the film and television soundtrack show, Sound & Vision.
PAUL MAGRS lives and writes in Manchester. In a twenty year writing career he has published a number of novels in a variety of genres, including books about transtemporal adventuress Iris Wildthyme and also the Brenda and Effie Mysteries, which are about the Bride of Frankenstein running a B&B in the seaside town of Whitby. He has also written fiction for young adults, including Strange Boy, Exchange and most recently, Lost on Mars (Firefly Press.) Over the years he has contributed many times to the Doctor Who books and audio series. He is the author of a beloved cat memoir: The Story of Fester Cat (Berkley.) He has taught Creative Writing at both the University of East Anglia and Manchester Metropolitan University, and now writes full time. His blog is at: http://www.lifeonmagrs.blogspot.co.uk/ and he can be found on Twitter and Facebook.
JENNY COLGAN is a British writer of romantic comedy fiction, Sci-Fi and also writes for the Doctor Who line of novels and short stories. She writes under her own name and using the pseudonyms Jane Beaton and J. T. Colgan. In 2000, she published her first novel, the romantic comedy Amanda’s Wedding. In 2013 her novel Welcome to Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop of Dreams won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists’ Association. In July 2012 her Doctor Who tie-in novel Dark Horizons was published under the name J. T. Colgan.
PAUL DRISCOLL is a director of a large social housing provider in Greater Manchester and runs his own proof-reading company Mined The Gap. Recently he has established an online merchandise shop specialising in Doctor Who related goodies (http://doctorwhosales.weebly.com). He also works as an occasional songwriter and a writer/researcher across such diverse subjects as Social Policy, Philosophy and Cult TV. He has written of his love for the show in various fan projects including four
essays published in the You and Who series of books. Paul is a regular contributor to the online fan site DoctorWhoWorldwide.com.
MATTHEW SWEET is an English writer, journalist, and BBC broadcaster. He holds a doctorate from Oxford University on the sensation fiction of the 19th century, Wilkie Collins in particular. He was among the contributors to the Oxford Companion to English Literature and was both film and television critic for the Independent on Sunday. His book, Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema (2005) is a history of the British film business from the silent days, and includes interviews with surviving figures from the period. He is also an author of TV films and series, including Shepperton Babylon (documentary, adapted from the book, Silent Britain, Checking into History, British Film Forever, The Rules of Film Noir and A Brief History of Fun, as well as several Doctor Who audio plays and short stories. He is also the presenter of a BBC Radio 4 programme, The Philosopher’s Arms, a show recorded in front of a live audience, exploring classic philosophical issues and is a regular presenter of Night Waves on BBC Radio 3.
LANCE PARKIN is an author of many Doctor Who including novels Cold Fusion, The Dying Days, The Infinity Doctors and The Gallifrey Chronicles. He also writes non-fiction, including guides to Star Trek, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series, Alias as well as the incredible Doctor Who universe chronology AHistory. He has written many Doctor Who audio plays for Big Finish and wrote the critically acclaimed biography of the writer Alan Moore, The Extraordinary Worlds Of Alan Moore (2013, Aurum Press) as well as
https://lanceparkin.wordpress.com/
CAROLYN EDWARDS is a freelance artist, based in the UK. She has been working professionally since 2000 and is a regular exhibitor at Doctor Who and Memorabilia/Comic Conventions all over the UK, selling original paintings, prints, sketch cards and greetings cards. Her work has also featured in Fanzines, books, theatre posters and magazines. Carolyn is kept very busy working on commissions, sketch card sets and other projects. Her artworks are in private collections all over the world. She would very much like to steal a TARDIS, as “There are never enough hours in the day!” You can buy her original artwork and prints here or keep up to date with Carolyn’s new artwork, projects and shows: www.facebook.com/SpiritedPortraits and www.carolynedwards.blogspot.co.uk
After a ten-year career as a young actor, GARY RUSSELL moved into other aspects of the industry, working as a runner/assistant director/AFM, as well as spending a period of time in press and publicity and brand management for the BBC. As a freelance writer he has written for a number of national magazines and periodicals such as Radio Times, Mojo and Time Out. For Marvel UK he served as an Editor and then Group Editor in both magazine and comic book departments, before moving on to work for gaming magazines and TV Soap magazines. Gary helped establish Big Finish Productions Ltd, for which he was the Executive Producer, overseeing all audio drama and book publishing programming
; script-editing, producing and directing over 200 hours of original audio drama. He rejoined the BBC as a Script Editor at BBC Wales Drama, where he stayed for nearly 6 years, working on Doctor Who, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Wizards vs Aliens. For BBC Wales he also produced and directed a number of Doctor Who animation and game projects before relocating to New South Wales, Australia, to be the Executive Producer on a new 26-part ABC Kids childrens’ animated series, from Planet 55 Studios, called Prisoner Zero. When in the UK, he lives in Cardiff. When in Australia he lives in Avoca Beach. He collects books, comics, action figures, Converse hitops, a ridiculous amount of CDs and DVDs and therefore, curiously, a lot of dust. He is allergic to onion and terrified of cows. Heaven knows why…
JON ARNOLD is the co-editor of Shooty Dog Thing: 2th and Claw. His work has appeared in books including Shooty Dog Thing, Outside In, Time Unincorporated, the You and Who series, Shelf Life, The Twelve Doctors of Christmas, Terrors of the Theatre Diabolique as well as in innumerable fanzines and on websites such as The Two Unfortunates and Winterwind. He is currently working on several projects including his proofreading business, stories for horror anthologies and essays for the forthcoming Hating To Love . He tweets as @The_Arn and his blog is here.
JOHN PEEL was born in Nottingham, but moved to the US in 1981. He has written ten Doctor Who books, along with novels based on shows like Quantum Leap, Star Trek and The Outer Limits. His original series include Diadem and Dragonhome. He can be found at www.john-peel.com or www.Facebook.com/JohnPeelAuthor
SAMI KELSH is a Canadian writer, photographer, and illustrator. She has written for numerous television news sites, and is a regular contributor to Cultbox. Her visual works have been exhibited at galleries in North America and the UK. Her photographic project, People of Who, is a series of portraits celebrating the individuals responsible for helping to create the Doctor Who universe. She lives in Oxford. Her site is here.
GEORGE MANN is the author of the bestselling Doctor Who: Engines of War, featuring the War Doctor and Cinder. His other novels include the Victorian fantasy series Newbury & Hobbes, beginning with The Affinity Bridge, as well as Ghosts of Manhattan, Sherlock Holmes: The Spirit Box, and numerous others. If he had a real TARDIS he would go back in time and ensure he could hit all of his impending deadlines. https://georgemann.wordpress.com
ELLIOT THORPE (@elliot1701) is a freelance writer, having previously worked with the sites Den of Geek, Shadowlocked and Doctor Who TV as well as for Encore, the magazine for the theatre professional, and the Dean Martin Association (the world’s first official fan club for Dino). For Big Finish, he scripted the Gary Russell-directed audio Doctor Who: Cryptobiosis starring Colin Baker & Nicola Bryant and has been working regularly since 2012 with Stephen Triffitt, Mark Adams and George Daniel Long, who have a residency at the Hippodrome Casino in London with the stage production The Definitive Rat Pack. Elliot’s first novel Cold Runs the Blood was released in 2013 and he is currently working on a second novel as well as a biography of Dean Martin and contributions to the forthcoming unofficial Doctor Who Book Guide. His further writing credits include contributions to the anthologies Grave Matters and The Little Book of Shockers from Writers Anonymous, with a further anthology, The Librarian, due for publication September 2015. Visit his site here and his Facebook page here.
ALAN P JACK has been a Doctor Who fan since 1979. This is his first attempt at writing fiction. Having worked in Healthcare for many years, he is looking at entering the amateur world of stand-up comedy. As well as being active in the geek community and appearing on the community radio station Phonic FM, he enjoys keeping dogs and rats and collecting vacuum cleaners.
ELTON TOWNEND JONES is a critically-acclaimed playwright, director, actor and theatre producer with a number of West End runs under his belt. He is best known internationally for the works: Dalloway, The Unremarkable Death of Marilyn Monroe, and The Diaries of Adam and Eve. He is a founding member of Dyad Productions and also writes professionally about film, music and television. He has been watching Doctor Who since 1972 and hopes you get the ‘Mirrorlon’ joke.
NICK MELLISH has written articles for Doctor Who fanzines such as Whotopia, The Terrible Zodin and Shooty Dog Thing, contributed to books such as You and Who: Contact Has Been Made, Outside In and Celebrate Regenerate, co-written a book reviewing the Eighth Doctor’s audio plays from Big Finish (Memoirs of an Edwardian Adventurer with Will Brooks), and had a story in The Casebook of the Manleigh Halt Irregulars from Obverse Books. He keeps a blog and works with preschool children.
MATTHEW SYLVESTER was formerly Features Editor, Technical Consultant and regular columnist for four of the leading martial arts magazines in the United Kingdom. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed Practical Taekwondo: Back to the Roots, which has been sold around the world. Matthew has had a number of short stories published by Fringe Works, KnightWatch Press, Anderfam Press and Emby Press.
DAVID CARRINGTON has written for several comedy shows and has been developing scripts for radio and TV, including a modern re-telling of the Dreyfus Affair. A frequent contributor to radio comedy programmes on the BBC, he is also a prolific and talented screenwriter and is currently developing several projects for TV and film. David lives in Essex and can be found on Twitter @dw_carrington.
BARNABY EATON-JONES is a freelance writer of books, poetry, scripts and documentaries. He is also an actor, improviser and musician. His stage scripts have won the odd award, written exclusively for The OFFSTAGE Theatre Group, and his poetry has appeared in many published anthologies. His documentaries have been shown around the world and released on DVD, covering many subjects in history, in literature and on film. His most recent work includes the publication of his comedy novel, Lemon, an adaptation of a play he wrote for BBC Radio called Running To Stand Still - which was released on CD for the charity Invest In M.E. (being a sufferer of the condition they research into) – and adapting and recording an audio version of Single White Who Fan: The Life & Times Of Jackie Jenkins for What Noise Productions. He is currently compiling two anthologies for CoppaFeel! and Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research, as well as setting up his own publishing company Chinbeard Books.
CHRISTOPHER BRYANT has been writing professionally for almost fifteen years and has been a Doctor Who fan for more than twice as long. He was a regular contributor to long-running satirical comedy revues NewsRevue (London) and The Treason Show (Brighton) between 2001 and 2008 and has also written and adapted several plays for youth theatre shows. More recently, he co-edited You And Who: Contact Has Been Made (a collection of personal essays covering the entire of televised Doctor Who) which is currently being reissued as a bumper volume with additional material to raise money for Children In Need. He has also contributed to Blake’s Heaven, the forthcoming collection of Blake’s Seven writing edited by John Davies. He writes regular features for Celestial Toyroom, the magazine of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society. Away from writing, Christopher is a full-time English teacher. He is married to Nina and has a daughter called Cariad.
MATT FITTON writes scripts, prose and anything else you’d like him to. Since 2010 he has worked for Big Finish Productions on the Doctor Who range of full-cast audio dramas and spin-offs (including Survivors: Revelation, Doctor Who: Dark Eyes 3 and Doctor Who: Equilibrium). He also script edits and writes for their acclaimed audio series based on Terry Nation’s Survivors, and, coming later in 2015, The Omega Factor. He lives in Oxford with his wife and son and has an infrequently updated blog at www.mattfitton.co.uk.
ALAN RONALD is a life-long Doctor Who fan, Scottish writer, director and comedian residing in Hertfordshire. His movie credits include Jesus Versus The Messiah, and segments of the Death Tales horror anthologies, amongst others. He currently hosts and performs at regular comedy nights in Watford, and also works as a pro-wrestling cameraman.
PAUL HANLEY is an artist, animator and writer based out of Austin, Texas. Over the years he’s done licensed art for Godzilla, Judge Dredd and Firefly One of his handful of official Doctor Who jobs to date was the design for the War Doctor’s companion, Cinder. He’s also a designated portrait artist for the spinoff character ‘Ms. Iris Wildthyme’ in her various media excursions.
PAUL GRIFFIN’s previous work has appeared in DWM and he illustrated the first BBC book in 1997 with ‘The Devil Goblins From Neptune’. After resting for 17 years he now regularly illustrates for the Cygnus Alpha Fanzine and various books, alongside presenting the electronic music radio show Two Knobs and an Oscillator. He will happily accept private commissions and professional work, and you can contact him here.