David Wake started as a playwright, taking shows to London and the Edinburgh Fringe, and winning awards (and drinking lager out of one piece of silverware at the celebratory curry). He completed an MA in Writing at Birmingham City University, co-edited the anthology and received that year's screenwriting award. His novels cover SF, steampunk and more. He has two series, the Derring-Do Club adventures, the Thinkersphere near-future police procedurals and stand-alone ranging from samurai revenge thriller, political satire pub crawl and a cosy mystery. He co-founded and co-runs New Street Authors, an indie publishing collective based in Birmingham, UK. He's the inventor of the drabble, which are stories of exactly 100 words. If you'd like to know more, please get in touch.