Nev Fountain

Nev Fountain (born 12 August 1969Twitter) is an English author who has written for Doctor Who in multiple media.
== Doctor Who ==
Fountain has written three Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories, a Bernice Summerfield short story, two Doctor Who Short Trips short stories, and a story for The Diary of River Song: Series Three. He has written several comic stories for Doctor Who Magazine and Doctor Who Adventures. Fountain is also an occasional contributing writer of nonfiction to Doctor Who Magazine and has contributed to supplemental material on 2|entertain Doctor Who DVD releases, and regularly appears at Doctor Who and other scifi conventions.
Fountain was a script editor on Death Comes to Time.Doc Oho Reviews...: Nev Fountain Interview
Fountain was a writer and occasional actor in the sketch comedy series Dead Ringers, which often parodied Doctor Who, in both its radio and television incarnations. He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.
== Other work ==
Outside of the Doctor Who universe, Fountain has been a frequent contributing writer to a wide variety of radio and television programmes since the mid-1990s, often joined by his longtime collaborator Tom Jamieson."Tom and Nev: Scripts - Our CV" - TomAndNev.com
=== The Mervyn Stone Mysteries ===
Fountain is a mystery novelist, writing The Mervyn Stone Mysteries for Big Finish Books."Mervyn Stone Launched!" - BigFinish.com, 12 July 2010 Written from the viewpoint of the fictional Mervyn Stone, a struggling writer (primarily known for working on a 1980s scifi TV series with a cult following) who has a tendency to end up solving murders, the series pokes fun at the worlds and interactions behind the scenes and among the fandom of things like Doctor Who.
In support of the novels, Big Finish launched a dedicated website as well as an in-universe podcast miniseries revealing some of the "real" back-story of the cult series Vixens from the Void. The podcast features Fountain, Nicholas Briggs and Nicola Bryant. The seven episodes make up a self-contained murder mystery story, known as Whatever Happened to Babel J?
Fountain also writes a Twitter feed in-character as Mervyn Stone. From 1 April through 24 April 2011 he posted The Pen Is Mightier Than the Nerd, an entire murder mystery told in real-time via Mervyn Stone's Twitter posts. Fountain posted the conclusion to Twitter live from on-stage at the 2011 Act III scifi convention while, in the narrative, Stone was announcing the mystery's solution from on-stage at the same convention."Mervyn Stone Tweets at Act III" - BigFinish.com, 14 April 2011
In February 2013 Big Finish released "The Axeman Cometh," a Mervyn Stone audio drama mystery, starring John Banks as Mervyn and Nicola Bryant as Vanity.
== Biography ==
Fountain drew his own comics as a child. Among his influences he counts the Target Books Doctor Who novelisations, beginning with Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius, as well as the prose work of Douglas Adams and the comics work of Alan Moore, John Wagner, Pat Mills, and Alan Grant.
Fountain is in a relationship with Nicola Bryant. Fountain has collaborated professionally with Bryant on several occasions, including a December 2010 episode of Scoop. Bryant posed for the cover of the Mervyn Stone novel Geek Tragedy.
== Bibliography ==
=== Audio ===
==== BBC Audio ====
* The Flight of the Sun God
==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
* Omega
* The Kingmaker
* The Curious Incident of the Doctor in the Night-Time
* The Widow's Assassin
* Blood on Santa's Claw and Other Stories
** Blood on Santa's Claw
** The Baby Awakes
** I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day
** Brightly Shone The Moon That Night
==== Lost Stories ====
* The Doomsday Contract (adapted to audio by a script from John Lloyd)
==== The Sixth Doctor and Peri ====
* Conflict Theory
==== Destiny of the Doctor ====
* Trouble in Paradise
==== The Companion Chronicles ====
* Peri and the Piscon Paradox
==== Bernice Summerfield ====
* The Revolution
==== The Diary of River Song ====
* The Lady in the Lake
==== Missy ====
* The Broken Clock
==== Vienna ====
* Bad Faith
=== Prose ===
==== Short Trips ====
* The Man Who Wouldn't Give Up (in Short Trips: Past Tense)
* The Five O'Clock Shadow (in Short Trips: A Day in the Life
==== Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series ====
* Beedlemania (in A Life of Surprises)
=== Comic strips ===
==== Doctor Who Magazine comic stories ====
* The Green-Eyed Monster
==== DWA comic stories ====
* The Man in the Moon
* Store Wars
=== Webcasts ===
* Death Comes to Time (script editor)
=== Documentaries ===
* Now, Get Out of That: Doctor Who Cliffhangers
* The Last Chance Saloon
== Footnotes ==
== External links ==
* Official site of Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain
* Official blog
* Official Facebook
* 
* Doc Oho Reviews...: Nev Fountain Interview
* BBC.co.uk website interview with Nev Fountain, 01 January 2004
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