David J Thacker is the author of a play for Young People ('S.O. T. – Save Our Theatre'), performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2001, and has penned the Libretto for a modern Oratorio in 2000 (no mean feat when you can’t read music). He also co-wrote and directed the 2014 Retro Hugo Awards Ceremony for the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, LonCon3, and directed the 2014 Hugo Awards Ceremony at the same event. 'The Red House' was his first long-form piece of published work. A novel - 'Once: A Belmouth Tale' -was published in August 2019. In 2022, he co-wrote 'The Welsh Hercules: Snapshots of a Strongman's Life' with Steven Blockley, and released a new novella, 'The Last Rat Child'