Mark Clapham

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Mark Clapham (born 1976) is a British author, best known for writing fiction and reference books for television series, in particular relating to Doctor Who (and its spin-offs) and Warhammer 40,000.

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Writing

Clapham started out writing Doctor Who fan fiction and, through Seventh Door Fanzines, began to work with Lance Parkin. Notable fan fiction work included Integration, a novella in Seventh Door's Odyssey series, edited by Parkin.

Having been asked to write a New Adventure (a Bernice Summerfield novel for Virgin Publishing) for the November 1998 slot, Parkin found himself too busy with other commitments to write a book on his own and, with editor Rebecca Levene's blessing, brought in Clapham as a co-author. Between them, the two devised Beige Planet Mars , a campus mystery novel set at a Mars University. Clapham was later offered the final Virgin Benny slot and, with a tight deadline, brought in Jon de Burgh Miller as his co-writer on Twilight of the Gods .

Clapham went on to co-write The Taking of Planet 5 with Simon Bucher-Jones in the BBC's Doctor Who novel line, before eventually writing his first solo novel for the line, Hope . He wrote a comic in Accent UK's Zombies anthology. [1] He edited Secret Histories , a Bernice Summerfield anthology. [2]

He has written non-fiction, both reference books for TV (often with Jim Smith) and magazine work, notably for the official Xena: Warrior Princess magazine. With Smith and Eddie Robson, he wrote Who's Next: An Unofficial Guide to Doctor Who. [3]

He later wrote official fiction in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

Bibliography

Bernice Summerfield

Virgin

Big Finish

  • Secret Histories , editor and linking material
  • "In the Ledgers of Madness", short story in Present Danger
  • "The Seventh Fanfic", short story in In Time
  • Venus Mantrap, with Lance Parkin; audio drama, 2009
  • "Tap", short audio drama, in The Christmas Collection

Doctor Who

Iris Wildthyme

Warhammer 40K

Other fiction

Non-fiction

References

  1. "Accent UK". Archived from the original on 24 September 2007. Retrieved 13 May 2007.
  2. "Bernice Summerfield: Secret Histories" . Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  3. "Who's Next: An Unofficial Guide to Doctor Who" . Retrieved 7 November 2017.