Richard Dinnick
Richard Dinnick (born 22 January 1968) is a British screenwriter, novelist, comic book writer and audio playwright. He is a frequent guest at writing events (including the London Screenwriters' Festival) and such "Doctor Who" conventions as Gallifrey One as well as San Diego Comic Con. Dinnick is a member of the Writers Guild of Great Britain and the Royal Television Society and a Patron of the Children's Media Foundation. Journalism. Dinnick started his writing career on the local newspaper "Esher News and Mail" in 1986. He then specialised in business journalism, working on publications such as "Director  (the magazine published by the Institute of Directors) and Real Business" as part of their editorial teams. In the late 1990s, he moved to "Internet Magazine". During this time he appeared on numerous TV and radio programmes as well as newspapers and industry web sites talking about internet-related matters. He was also shortlisted for the PPA's PTC New Journalist of the Year Award in 1999. Later he went on to work on the City desk of the "Sunday Express" and chaired the Government Committee on Web Design Best Practice in 2002/3. Writing career. Dinnick is the winner of  the 2012 BBC Writersroom opportunity to create a new show and to write for TV on the BBC and went on to write for the CBeebies TV shows "Tree Fu Tom" and "Go Jetters" - amongst others - as well as Mind Candy's new "Moshi Monsters" TV show. He was one of six finalists in a 2014 BBC Academy opportunity to workshop a script for "Waterloo Road". In 2015 Dinnick became Head Writer on the new Disney TV show "Eena Meena Deeka" and in-development action adventure show "Captain Extraordinary". He was also a BAFTA Judge for Children's Drama and  produced a session for the 2014 Children's Media Conference. He is writing on the third series of "Thunderbirds Are Go!" for ITV/Amazon Studios and is developing several ideas for TV. These include the fantasy drama"Never After", primetime crime drama "Murder of Crows", workplace drama "No Kidding", and "The Last Horseman", an urban fantasy series. He is working on a web series for Capital City Entertainment, "Light & Shadows" (a.k.a."Dead Good"). He also has a prime time TV crime drama in development with Chrysalis Vision, named "Surface Tension". Dinnick has written prose, scripts and comics for such media properties  including MGM's "Stargate" and the BBC's "Doctor Who". He has the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, including "The Hound of the Baskervilles", for CD release. "The Underwater War" appeared in the tie-in "Doctor Who: Alien Adventures", published by BBC Children's Books in 2010. He has since gone on to write books and short stories for Penguin UK, Titan Publishing, Black Library, Running Press and Snow Books. BBC Books published his tie-in collection"Doctor Who Myths & Legends" in June 2017 and he is contributing to the Missy themed anthology - also from BBC Books - entitled  'The Missy Chronicles' to be published in 2018. He is also writing the foreword and contributing a story to the forthcoming anthology about Doctor Who Character, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, called "Lineage" from Candy Jar Books. He has also written comics for IDW, BBC Magazines and is currently the writer on Titan Comics Twelfth Doctor line of comics. An original graphic novel - Rob - has also been announced to be published in 2018 by Legendary Entertainment and WEBTOON alongside titles by Jessica Chobot and John Barrowman. Audio scripts. He has written scripts for several different franchises, largely for Big Finish Productions: Short  stories. Dinnick's first fiction was the short story "Neptune" for Big Finish Productions' "Doctor Who" anthology "". His published short stories are: Comics. According to his website he is also writing several unannounced comic book projects for publishers that are yet to be confirmed. Non-fiction. Dinnick has written a number of non-fiction works: As editor: