Debbie Moon

Debbie Moon
Born	London, England
Occupation	Screenwriter and author
Nationality	English
Period	2002–present
Genre	Fantasy, science-fiction, horror, drama

Debbie Moon is an English screenwriter and author, best known as the creator and show-runner of the CBBC fantasy series Wolfblood .

Career

Moon wrote a screenplay for the low budget science fiction feature The 7th Dimension, and two episodes of the children's series The Sparticle Mystery . Although she published many short stories and some novels early in her career, her break came when she submitted her idea for Wolfblood to the BBC Writers Room, where it was selected as a series. ^[1] Moon came up with the idea during a visit to a bookshop, saw the words "wolf" in one book title and "blood" in another and blended them together. It ran for five series and was nominated for several awards, winning the Royal Television Society Award for the Children's Drama category in 2013; the Banff Rockie Award in the category for 'Best Children's Programme (fiction)' that same year; In 2015 it won the British Screenwriters' Award in the category 'Best British Children's Television'.

Moon expanded into adult drama with Hinterland . On 10 June 2022 it was announced Moon would adapt the Blue is for Nightmares novels by Laurie Faria Stolarz to television. ^[2]

Works

Filmography

Production	Notes	Broadcaster/Distributor
True Love (Once Removed)	Short Film (2002)	—
The 7th Dimension	Feature Film (2009)	Kaleidoscope
The Sparticle Mystery	2 episodes (2011)	CBBC
Wolfblood	25 episodes (2012–2017), Creator/Showrunner	CBBC
Hinterland	2 episodes (2015–2016)	BBC
Twisted Showcase	"Muscle Memory" (2017) [3]	YouTube
Cops and Monsters	1 episode (2018) [4]	Amazon Prime
Dog Years	1 episode (2020) [5]	kidoodle.tv
Sherlock North	1 episode (TBA) [6]	—
Blue is for Nightmares	Showrunner	—

Novels

• Falling, Honno Press, 2003, ISBN   1-8702-0661-4

Short stories

• "Are You Now ...?" in the multi-author collection Premonitions: Different Eerie Warnings, 2004, Pigasus Press

Awards and nominations

Year	Nominated work	Category	Award	Result	Notes	Ref.
2013	Wolfblood	Children's Writer	British Academy Children's Awards	Nominated	—	[7]
2014	Wolfblood	Children's Drama	British Academy Children's Awards	Nominated	—	[8]
	Wolfblood	Children's Writer		Won	—
2015	Wolfblood	Children's Drama	British Academy Children's Awards	Nominated	—	[9]
	Wolfblood	Best British Children's Television	British Screenwriters' Awards	Won	—	[10]

References

1. "BBC Writersroom: Debbie Moon" . Retrieved 15 June 2015.
2. "The Hideaway Entertainment & Fictionz Partner on 'Blue is for Nightmares' Podcast, Will Also Develop YA Book Series for TV". 10 June 2022.
3. "Muscle Memory". 10 October 2017. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
4. "Cops and Monsters – Series 2 Writers Announcement". 12 January 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2018.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
5. "Dog Years leads Nelson Nutmeg into TV".
6. @TheWRACGroup (19 May 2018). "#WRAC18 2. And you will next be able to see @DebbieBMoon's words come to life on screen in the Finnish TV series…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
7. "2013 Children's Writer".
8. "Children's in 2014".
9. "Children's in 2015".
10. "The 2015 British Screenwriters' Awards".

External links

• Debbie Moon at IMDb
• Debbie Moon on Twitter
• Debbie Moon at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database