Welsh-born Andy Frankham-Allen’s passion for writing began with a love of Doctor Who. He’s been writing since as far back as he can remember, and, although unsuccessful, he wrote a Doctor Who novel for BBC Books in 1996 after an accident caused him to be out of work for four months. Following that writing fell back into a hobby until 2001 when he began an ongoing fan-fiction series called Doctor Who: The Legacy, which carried on until 2006 (which is now being published by Frankallen Books through www.lulu.com under the umbrella title ‘Legacy’, in aid of Cancer Research UK). This led to professional Doctor Who short stories in Big Finish’s anthology series, Short Trips, from 2004 to 2009. During which time he wrote an audio drama for Noise Monster’s Space 1889 series. In 2007 he created and co-edited a new eZine called Pantechnicon, for which he also wrote short stories and interviews.

Late 2010 saw Andy become a part of both Untreed Reads Publishing, and Hirst Publishing. Both companies published his début novel, ‘Seeker’ (Book one in The Garden Quadrilogy) in March 2011. He has several short stories released through Untreed Reads, and is now the range editor of their new steampunk eBook series, ‘Space: 1889 & Beyond’, of which he wrote the opening book.