James Bibby

Hi folks...

I am James Bibby, husband of one and father of four, and a resident of the Wirral. I've been a writer since 1980, when some kind soul in the script department at Not The Nine o'Clock News decided that the item I'd sent to them was good enough to use. During the 1980's I wrote for TV sketch shows such as OTT and The Lenny Henry Show, during the 1990's I turned to writing comic fantasy novels, and since the turn of the millennium I've been a house-husband, looking after the kids. Now that two of them have left home and the other two are old enough to shout at themselves, I've started to write again. I'm amazed to find I can still do it...

My first four books, originally published by Orion, have now been painfully adapted for Kindle download on Amazon. They are Ronan the Barbarian, Ronan's Rescue, Ronan's Revenge and Shapestone. After a gap of fifteen years I added The Time Traveller's Shorts, a collection of eight short stories, four of which have been published in "The Mammoth Book of..." anthologies by Mike Ashley. Two of these feature the further misadventures of Inspector Heighway, first encountered in Shapestone, and two others update the main characters originally met in Ronan the Barbarian. At some point in the future I hope to add "Interlopers", a fantasy sci-fi set in England in the 1990's in the days before anti-social media had been invented.

Ah, those were the days...

James.