Finalist in 2005 UK Film Council SPARK screen writing competition. Finalist in inaugural Red Plant Prize worldwide screen writing competition. Finalist in 2008 ScriptPIMP worldwide screen writing competition. Short film in production in Canada, developed from my award-winning short story. Two feature film scripts optioned by LA-based studios. Completed game and narrative design project for brand new Electronic Arts IP. Member of The Science Fiction& Fantasy Writers of America. Member of Writer's Guild of Great Britain. Spanner is indeed my real first name. It’s a long, but regrettably uninteresting story, though since becoming a full-time, self-employed freelance writer in 2005 it’s proven to be no bad thing having such a memorable name. I was first published in 1993 when a comic script was developed and published by UK adult comic Viz, which I’ve regularly contributed to ever since. Although I trained as an electronics engineer, specialising in medical and s