| BENJAMIN ADAMS was nominated for a 2002 Bram Stoker Award for the anthology The Children of Cthulhu, which he co-edited with John Pelan. His short fiction has appeared in the 1998 Bram Stoker Award-winning anthology Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, and in anthologies such as 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories, Miskatonic University, Blood Muse and Delta Green: Dark Theatres. While most of his professional work has appeared in horror and dark fiction collections, he has always dreamed of coming back to his first love as a fanzine editor in the 1980s: Doctor Who. Who says dreams can't come true? SAMANTHA BAKER has now written four stories for Big Finish's Short Trips range, having previously contributed to Past Tense, Monsters and The History of Christmas. She has also written for fanzines and websites, but, unlike her namesake, has never been the editor of Cosmopolitan. JOHN DAVIES has always been a keen writer. However, whilst known to post fiction on Doctor Who website , The Centenarian is his first professional commission. He is still calming down from being quoted in Doctor Who Magazine's season survey in 1990. Rumours that his final dissertation at university was based on continuity problems within Doctor Who are totally founded. IAN FARRINGTON (editor) has compiled three previous Short Trips collections - Past Tense, Monsters and A Day in the Life - and is the range editor of the series. He has also written stories for A Day in the Life, Short Trips: Life Science and two anthologies in the Professor Bernice Summerfield range, and edited numerous novels, short-story collections, script books and factual titles. Ian co-produced Big Finish's UNIT audio series, and is the assistant producer of the company's Doctor Who range. He has also contributed to Doctor Who Magazine. SIMON GUERRIER has written four audio plays for Big Finish - UNIT: The Coup, Professor Bernice Summerfield and The Lost Museum, Doctor Who: The Settling and Sapphire & Steel: The School. He has edited four short-story anthologies, including Short Trips: The History of Christmas. Incongruous Details is his tenth Doctor Who short story. His novel, The Time Travellers, also involves the bombing of London. STEPHEN HATCHER is Head of Modern Languages for a secondary school in Stoke-on-Trent. He is the coordinator of the Whoovers, Derby's Doctor Who local group, and a regular contributor to a number of fanzines, including Shockeye's Kitchen, Enlightenment, Myth Makers and TSV. Steve is the author of two stories published in previous Short Trips collections: Ante Bellum in Past Tense and The Touch of the Nurazh in Monsters. LIZZIE HOPLEY is a writer and RADA-trained actress. Her radio plays include The Elizabethan Beauty Law (starring Annette Badland as Elizabeth I) and The Cenci Family (which was nominated for a Sony Award and a First Play Award) for BBC Radio 4, and Salome for BBC Radio 3. For the theatre, Lizzie has written Perseus (which has toured Canada and New Zealand) and Oscaria (which was shortlisted for a Verity Bargate Award). Recent acting work for Big Finish includes roles in Doctor Who: Night Thoughts, The Tomorrow People: A Plague of Dreams, The Devil in Ms Wildthyme and Nicholas Briggs's Cyberman miniseries. In her Big Finish debut, she played Gemma Griffin, the Doctor's companion, in Joseph Lidster's Doctor Who: Terror Firma. Notable TV and film work includes The Last Hangman with Timothy Spall (Granada), Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased): Whatever Possessed You? (BBC) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Universal Pictures). JOSEPH LIDSTER has written extensively for Big Finish's series of Doctor Who audio dramas, with his second play, Master, being described by Doctor Who Magazine as 'the most moving Doctor Who story ever.' He's written five Doctor Who plays as well as scripts for Big Finish's Sapphire & Steel, Professor Bernice Summerfield, UNIT and Tomorrow People ranges. He's also written 11 short stories and a novella for the same company. Joseph is currently creating an online gaming world for the BBC's Doctor Who spin-off websites. GLEN McCOY wrote Timelash for the 1985 season of Doctor Who. He has written several short stories, and his other television credits include episodes of Angels, Emmerdale Farm, EastEnders and Eldorado. IAN MOND has been scribbling Doctor Who stories since he was ten years old. It's only recently that they've started being published in anthologies such as the Short Trips collections Past Tense, Monsters (both co-written with Danny Oz) and A Day in The Life, and Myth Makers. Ian has written for the Doctor's former companion Bernice Summerfield in three short-story collections - A Life During Wartime, A Life Worth Living and Something Changed. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, and recommends people read Les Carlyon's book Gallipoli if they want to know more about that tragic campaign. JAMES PARSONS is an actor, writer and designer. His recent stage roles have included appearances in Five Eleven (The Powder Treason), Servant Of Two Masters, The Gamblers, Othello, Cripple Of Inishmaan, The Importance Of Being Earnest, Twelfth Night and To Kill A Mockingbird. On film, he has appeared in Love In A Lecture Theatre, Because I Can, Fruit Graffiti and Zero Option. He was also Galen in the Big Finish Doctor Who CD Thicker Than Water. He co-wrote Doctor Who: LIVE 34 with Andrew Stirling-Brown for Big Finish's range of audio dramas and they are currently working on an idea for a radio play. James lives in Birmingham. STEL PAVLOU makes things up for a living. So far he's made up a movie, The 51st State starring Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Carlyle, and two best-selling novels, Decipher and Gene. His first published short story came out in 2005 in the SFF collection Elementals, which was published to raise money for Tsunami Relief. Stel has travelled widely, lived in America and Cyprus, and been a soldier, a shopkeeper and a fake land-mine dongle riveter (seriously). He is of mixed Anglo-Greek descent and therefore only fifty per cent of his gift-giving should be treated with any suspicion. Read more at . GARY RUSSELL has worked widely in media, as a television actor, script consultant, magazine editor, reviewer, novelist and audio producer. His non-fiction publications include books on Frasier, The Simpsons, Doctor Who and The Lord of the Rings. He has edited two Short Trips collections, Repercussions and The Solar System, and is the producer of Big Finish's range of Doctor Who audio dramas. RICHARD SALTER has had a number of short stories published. His first, for Virgin Publishing's Decalog 4, was in 1997 and this has been followed by six for Big Finish, most recently in Short Trips: The History of Christmas. He also co-edits a popular, award-winning fiction fanzine called Myth Makers for the Doctor Who Information Network (). He's an ex-Brit, now living near Toronto, Canada, with his wife Jennifer and working as a software development manager - though he'd rather be writing. STEVEN SAVILE has edited a number of critically acclaimed anthologies and collections, including Redbrick Eden and most recently Elementals for Tor Books in the US, as well as Smoke Ghost & Other Apparitions and Black Gondolier and Other Stories, the collected horror stories of Fritz Leiber. Steven is also the author of the Von Carstein Vampire trilogy, Inheritance, Dominion and Retribution, set in Games Workshop's popular Warhammer world, and has re-imagined the blood-thirsty celtic barbarian Slaine from 2000 AD in a new trilogy of novels for Black Flame. Steven has written for Star Wars and Jurassic Park as well as his own novels and short stories, including Houdini's Last Illusion (Telos) and Angel Road (Elastic Press). In his copious spare time, Steven… erm… writes… He was a runner up in the British Fantasy Awards, and a winner of a Writers of the Future Award in 2002. L. J. SCOTT created the DreamZone in 1983, one of the first online fiction sites. She co-founded DWIS (the Doctor Who Information Society) and was an editor and contributor to its newsletter. She provided film stock for the completion of Hick Trek, and did some tentative work in television and radio during the late 1980s. While heading the Science Fiction Association of Colorado Springs into the 1990s, she wrote the original draft of what became the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Quality Of Life. Taking a decade off to help fuel the telecommunications boom, she has since returned to writing. ANDREW STIRLING-BROWN is an armourer and writer. Notable armour commissions have included suits for the Royal Armouries and Hampton Court Palace, seen on Channel 4 shows such as Time Team. He has provided pieces for Shakespeare's Globe's period-style recreations of the Bard's plays, including Richard II (broadcast live on BBC 4) and Twelfth Night, which won that year's Olivier Award for Best Costume Design. As a writer, Andrew has specialised in Herefordshire medieval history, culminating in the book Pembridge Past, published in 2005. That same year, his first Big Finish commission, the audio play LIVE 34, co-written with James Parsons, was released. BRIAN WILLIS was born in South Wales and still lives there, much to the annoyance of the residents of Swansea. He has written numerous stories, occasional reviews for SFX magazine and a novel - Scorpion, co-written with Chris Poote. Brian won the British Fantasy Award in 2001 for editing the anthology Hideous Progeny for Razorblade Press. |