Nev Fountain

Nev Fountain
Other names:	Mervyn Stone
Birth date:	12 August 1969
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Writer
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	2001-06, 2008-14, 2018-21
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Dead Ringers The Mervyn Stone Mysteries
Twitter
IMDb profile

Nev Fountain (born 12 August 1969) is an English author who has written for Doctor Who in multiple media.

Doctor Who

Fountain has written three Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories, a Bernice Summerfield short story, two Doctor Who Short Trips short stories, and a story for The Diary of River Song: Series Three. He has written several comic stories for Doctor Who Magazine and Doctor Who Adventures. Fountain is also an occasional contributing writer of nonfiction to Doctor Who Magazine and has contributed to supplemental material on 2|entertain Doctor Who DVD releases, and regularly appears at Doctor Who and other scifi conventions.

Fountain was a script editor on Death Comes to Time.

Fountain was a writer and occasional actor in the sketch comedy series Dead Ringers, which often parodied Doctor Who, in both its radio and television incarnations. He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.

Other work

Outside of the Doctor Who universe, Fountain has been a frequent contributing writer to a wide variety of radio and television programmes since the mid-1990s, often joined by his longtime collaborator Tom Jamieson.

The Mervyn Stone Mysteries

Fountain is a mystery novelist, writing The Mervyn Stone Mysteries for Big Finish Books. Written from the viewpoint of the fictional Mervyn Stone, a struggling writer (primarily known for working on a 1980s scifi TV series with a cult following) who has a tendency to end up solving murders, the series pokes fun at the worlds and interactions behind the scenes and among the fandom of things like Doctor Who.

In support of the novels, Big Finish launched a dedicated website as well as an in-universe podcast miniseries revealing some of the "real" back-story of the cult series Vixens from the Void. The podcast features Fountain, Nicholas Briggs and Nicola Bryant. The seven episodes make up a self-contained murder mystery story, known as Whatever Happened to Babel J?

Fountain also writes a Twitter feed in-character as Mervyn Stone. From 1 April through 24 April 2011 he posted The Pen Is Mightier Than the Nerd, an entire murder mystery told in real-time via Mervyn Stone's Twitter posts. Fountain posted the conclusion to Twitter live from on-stage at the 2011 Act III scifi convention while, in the narrative, Stone was announcing the mystery's solution from on-stage at the same convention.

In February 2013 Big Finish released "The Axeman Cometh," a Mervyn Stone audio drama mystery, starring John Banks as Mervyn and Nicola Bryant as Vanity.

Biography

Fountain drew his own comics as a child. Among his influences he counts the Target Books Doctor Who novelisations, beginning with Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius, as well as the prose work of Douglas Adams and the comics work of Alan Moore, John Wagner, Pat Mills, and Alan Grant.

Fountain is in a relationship with Nicola Bryant. Fountain has collaborated professionally with Bryant on several occasions, including a December 2010 episode of Scoop. Bryant posed for the cover of the Mervyn Stone novel Geek Tragedy.

Bibliography

Audio

BBC Audio

• The Flight of the Sun God

Doctor Who Main Range

• Omega
• The Kingmaker
• The Curious Incident of the Doctor in the Night-Time
• The Widow's Assassin
• Blood on Santa's Claw and Other Stories
  • Blood on Santa's Claw
  • The Baby Awakes
  • I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day
  • Brightly Shone The Moon That Night

Lost Stories

• The Doomsday Contract (adapted to audio by a script from John Lloyd)

The Sixth Doctor and Peri

• Conflict Theory

Destiny of the Doctor

• Trouble in Paradise

The Companion Chronicles

• Peri and the Piscon Paradox

Bernice Summerfield

• The Revolution

The Diary of River Song

• The Lady in the Lake

Missy

• The Broken Clock

Vienna

• Bad Faith

Prose

Short Trips

• The Man Who Wouldn't Give Up (in Short Trips: Past Tense)
• The Five O'Clock Shadow (in Short Trips: A Day in the Life

Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series

• Beedlemania (in A Life of Surprises)

Comic strips

Doctor Who Magazine comic stories

• The Green-Eyed Monster

DWA comic stories

• The Man in the Moon
• Store Wars

Webcasts

• Death Comes to Time (script editor)

Documentaries

• Now, Get Out of That: Doctor Who Cliffhangers
• The Last Chance Saloon

External links

• Official site of Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain
• Official blog
• Official Facebook
• Official Twitter account
• Nev Fountain at the Internet Movie Database
• Doc Oho Reviews...: Nev Fountain Interview
• BBC.co.uk website interview with Nev Fountain, 01 January 2004