David Dodds

David Dodds has been writing all his life. From short stories, written as a child on an elderly typewriter, via editing a university newsletter, he progressed to writing both fiction and non-fiction for a broad range of magazines and blogs, as diverse as Practical Wireless, Sailplane and Gliding and various wildlife and conservation publications.

When he progressed to novel-writing he combined his love of history and mythology with magical realism, set in the dark wynds and closes of Edinburgh. His first novel, Touchpaper, the first in the Parallel Realm series was published in 2024. The second, Wyrm-galdr was published in late 2025.

David lives in a former railway workers cottage in the Scottish Borders with his wife Rona, a small and opinionated dog and an elderly one-eyed cat. Now retired from his work as a bat ecologist, when not engaged in writing or small-dog-wrangling he helps Rona with her successful plant nursery. He also enjoys flying gliders over the beautiful Scottish Borders and training new pilots, in his role as a flight instructor.