About Jim Mortimore

My work spans more than thirty years and includes:

  • Graphic work ranging from book and DVD jackets for Big Finish Productions, Virgin Publishing and LightWorX Media, to fine art, including a portrait of Princess Anne which was displayed in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London during 1992.
  • Composition work, including music and sound design, ranging from films on AIDS awareness, de-mining strategy and the war in Darfur for Family Health International and the Strategic Arm of the United Nations, to original music for various Big Finish / BBC audio plays.
  • Writing work, including books scripts, and short stories, both fiction and non-fiction.

My Doctor Who novel Blood Heat won Best Novel in the 1993 Doctor Who Magazine readers’ poll. My Babylon 5 novel Clark’s Law was voted third in the Best TV related Fiction Category in the 1996 SFX Magazine’s reader’s poll.

My short story The Sun in the Bone House was suggested for the 2009 Nebula Award for best short story.

My adaption of accounts of young drug users was used by University of the West of England as a standard text for student awareness.

My books have been published world-wide, including the USA, and have been translated into French, German, Japanese and Finnish. The Mad Woman In The Attic has been made into two different talking books.

That’s one for each ear if you come from this planet.

My interests include making strange bleepy sounds with vintage synthesizers and tyre‑kicking, at which I am a certified genius.

Andy Lane, bestselling author of the Young Sherlock Holmes novels on which the Amazon series is based, recently described my half-baked novelisation of the Dennis Hopper movie Space Truckers as considered legendary.

I think he meant it kindly.