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'''Andy Frankham-Allen''' wrote the short stories ''[[The Dead Man's Story]]'', ''[[Sedna (short story)|Sedna]]'' and ''[[The Misadventure of Mark Thorne]]''. He also wrote the reference book ''[[Companions: Fifty Years of Doctor Who Assistants]]''. He is the range editor of the Candy Jar Books ''Lethbridge-Stewart'' series of novels, and wrote ''The Ambush'', a short story prelude to the series that appeared in DWM #483.
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'''Andy Frankham-Allen''' is the range editor of the [[Candy Jar Books]] ''[[Lethbridge-Stewart (series)|Lethbridge-Stewart]]'' series of novels. He has written several novels and short stories in the ''Lethbridge-Stewart'' series, three stories for the ''[[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]'' series, an audio drama in ''[[The New Counter-Measures]]'', and the reference book ''[[Companions: Fifty Years of Doctor Who Assistants]]''.


He started off writing as Andrew Frankham with ''The Dead Man's Story'', and continued as Andy Frankham with his following two [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] stories. He changed his writing name to Andy Frankham-Allen when ''The Dead Man's Story'' was reprinted in the ''[[Short Trips: Re:Collections]]'' book, and has continued with that name ever since.
Frankham-Allen's earliest attempt at writing for ''[[Doctor Who]]'' was in 1989, when he pitched an idea to the Doctor Who Office shortly before its closure. After unsuccessfully pitching ''Who'' novels to [[Virgin Publishing]] and [[BBC Books]] through the 1990s,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doctorwhothelegacy.co.uk:80/staff/frankham.html| title= DOCTOR WHO - THE LEGACY - STAFF: Andy Frankham-Allen -| accessdate= 5 November 2018| website name=doctorwhothelegacy.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030222613/http://www.doctorwhothelegacy.co.uk:80/staff/frankham.html| archivedate= 30 October 2007}}</ref> he started his own series of fanfiction novellas, ''Doctor Who: The Legacy'', which ran from 2001 to 2006 with 40 stories.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://frankhamallen.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/new-legacy-title/| title=New Legacy Title| accessdate= 5 November 2018| website name=frankhamallen.wordpress.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.angelfire.com:80/scifi2/ajpfrankham/submission_guidelines.htm| title= DOCTOR WHO: THE LEGACY - Submission guidelines| accessdate= 5 November 2018| website name=angelfire.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030174652/http://www.angelfire.com:80/scifi2/ajpfrankham/submission_guidelines.htm| archivedate= 30 October 2007}}</ref> Notable collaborators with Frankham-Allen for this series included [[Richard Dinnick]], [[Luke Spillane]], [[Tom Webster]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doctorwhothelegacy.co.uk:80/staff.html| title= DOCTOR WHO - THE LEGACY - STAFF -| accessdate= 5 November 2018| website name=doctorwhothelegacy.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030050113/http://www.doctorwhothelegacy.co.uk:80/staff.html| archivedate= 30 October 2007}}</ref> and [[Paul Dale Smith]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doctorwhothelegacy.co.uk/season5/matrix.html| title= DOCTOR WHO - THE LEGACY - SEASON 5: Matrix Revelation -| accessdate= 5 November 2018| website name=doctorwhothelegacy.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928064256/http://www.doctorwhothelegacy.co.uk/season5/matrix.html| archivedate= 28 September 2007}}</ref>
 
He started off writing licensed ''Doctor Who'' fiction in 2004 as Andrew Frankham with ''[[The Dead Man's Story (short story)|The Dead Man's Story]]'', and continued as Andy Frankham with his following two [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] stories. He changed his writing name to Andy Frankham-Allen when ''The Dead Man's Story'' was reprinted in the ''[[Short Trips: Re:Collections]]'' book, and has continued with that name ever since.
 
Frankham-Allen also contributed to the [[Obverse Books]] [[Charity publication|charity anthology]] ''A Second Target for Tommy''.
 
As of 2017, he serves as Creative Director of the Haisman Literary Estate, appointed by [[Hannah Hatt]], granddaughter of Mervyn Haisman and executor of his estate. In that role Frankham-Allen oversees the use of Haisman's Doctor Who properties across various media, including Candy Jar Books, Titan Comics and Big Finish. This includes the use of the Brigadier in Titan's Third Doctor Adventures and Ninth Doctor Adventures, and the Big Finish releases The New Counter-Measures Series Two, The Revisionists and The Third Doctor Adventures vol.5.
 
== Bibliography ==
=== Novels ===
==== Lethbridge-Stewart ====
* ''[[The Forgotten Son (novel)|The Forgotten Son]]''
* ''[[Beast of Fang Rock (novel)|Beast of Fang Rock]]''
* ''[[Night of the Intelligence (novel)|Night of the Intelligence]]''
* ''[[The New Unusual (novel)|The New Unusual]]'' (with [[Adrian Sherlock]])
* ''[[An Ordinary Man (novel)|An Ordinary Man]]'' (with [[Tim Gambrell (writer)|Tim Gambrell]])
* ''[[Downtime: Child of the New World (novel)|Downtime: Child of the New World]]''
 
==== The Lucy Wilson Mysteries ====
* ''[[The Keeper of Fang Rock (novel)|The Keeper of Fang Rock]]''
 
=== Novellas ===
==== Lethbridge-Stewart ====
* ''[[The Lost Skin (novel)|The Lost Skin]]''
 
=== Short Stories ===
==== Short Trips ====
* ''[[The Dead Man's Story (short story)|The Dead Man's Story]]'' (in ''[[Short Trips: Repercussions]]'')
* ''[[Sedna (short story)|Sedna]]'' (in ''[[Short Trips: The Solar System]]'')
* ''[[The Misadventure of Mark Thorne (short story)|The Misadventure of Mark Thorne]]'' (in ''[[Short Trips: Snapshots]]'')
 
==== Lethbridge-Stewart ====
* ''[[The Ambush! (short story)|The Ambush!]]'' (in ''[[Lethbridge-Stewart: Top Secret Files]]'')
* ''[[The Forgotten Son original opening (short story)|The Forgotten Son original opening]]'' (in ''Lethbridge-Stewart: Top Secret Files'')
* ''[[One Cold Step (short story)|One Cold Step]]'' (with [[David A. McIntee]], in ''[[The HAVOC Files (anthology)|The HAVOC Files]]'')
* ''[[The Dogs of War (LS short story)|The Dogs of War]]'' (in ''The HAVOC Files'')
* ''[[The Enfolded Time (short story)|The Enfolded Time]]'' (in ''The HAVOC Files'')
* ''[[Legacies (short story)|Legacies]]'' (in ''The HAVOC Files'', as [[Norma Ashley|"Norma Ashley"]])
* ''[[Ashes of the Inferno (short story)|Ashes of Inferno]]'' (in ''[[The HAVOC Files 2]]'')
* ''[[Of the Future (short story)|Of the Future]]'' (in ''[[Lineage (anthology)|Lineage]]'')
* ''[[Acceptance, and then Understanding (short story)|Acceptance, and then Understanding]]'' (in ''Lineage'')
* ''[[The Note (short story)|The Note]]'' (in ''Lineage'')
* ''[[A Moment in History (short story)|A Moment in History]]'' (in ''[[The HAVOC Files: The Laughing Gnome]]'')
* ''[[The Stories We Tell (short story)|The Stories We Tell]]'' (in ''[[The HAVOC Files: Loose Ends]]'')
* ''[[Hide No More (short story)|Hide No More]]'' (in ''The HAVOC Files: Loose Ends'')
* ''[[Brother, Where Art Thou (short story)|Brother, Where Art Thou]]'' (in ''The HAVOC Files: Loose Ends'')
 
==== The Lucy Wilson Mysteries ====
* ''[[Lethbridge-Stewart (short story)|Lethbridge-Stewart]]'' (in ''[[The Lucy Wilson Collection]]'')
* ''[[The Invasion of London (short story)|The Invasion of London]]'' (with [[Tim Gambrell (writer)|Tim Gambrell]] in ''[[Lockdown (anthology)|Lockdown]]'')
 
=== Audio ===
==== The Early Adventures ====
* ''[[The Secrets of Det-Sen (audio story)|The Secrets of Det-Sen]]''
 
==== Short Trips ====
* ''[[The Revisionists (audio story)|The Revisionists]]''
 
==== The New Counter-Measures ====
* ''[[Time of the Intelligence (audio story)|Time of the Intelligence]]''
 
=== Reference works ===
* ''[[Companions: Fifty Years of Doctor Who Assistants]]''
 
=== Cancelled books ===
* ''[[Day of the Intelligence (novel)|Day of the Intelligence]]''
 
== Footnotes ==
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Andy Frankham-Allen is the range editor of the Candy Jar Books Lethbridge-Stewart series of novels. He has written several novels and short stories in the Lethbridge-Stewart series, three stories for the Short Trips series, an audio drama in The New Counter-Measures, and the reference book Companions: Fifty Years of Doctor Who Assistants.

Frankham-Allen's earliest attempt at writing for Doctor Who was in 1989, when he pitched an idea to the Doctor Who Office shortly before its closure. After unsuccessfully pitching Who novels to Virgin Publishing and BBC Books through the 1990s,[1] he started his own series of fanfiction novellas, Doctor Who: The Legacy, which ran from 2001 to 2006 with 40 stories.[2][3] Notable collaborators with Frankham-Allen for this series included Richard Dinnick, Luke Spillane, Tom Webster,[4] and Paul Dale Smith.[5]

He started off writing licensed Doctor Who fiction in 2004 as Andrew Frankham with The Dead Man's Story, and continued as Andy Frankham with his following two Short Trips stories. He changed his writing name to Andy Frankham-Allen when The Dead Man's Story was reprinted in the Short Trips: Re:Collections book, and has continued with that name ever since.

Frankham-Allen also contributed to the Obverse Books charity anthology A Second Target for Tommy.

As of 2017, he serves as Creative Director of the Haisman Literary Estate, appointed by Hannah Hatt, granddaughter of Mervyn Haisman and executor of his estate. In that role Frankham-Allen oversees the use of Haisman's Doctor Who properties across various media, including Candy Jar Books, Titan Comics and Big Finish. This includes the use of the Brigadier in Titan's Third Doctor Adventures and Ninth Doctor Adventures, and the Big Finish releases The New Counter-Measures Series Two, The Revisionists and The Third Doctor Adventures vol.5.

Bibliography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Novels[[edit] | [edit source]]

Lethbridge-Stewart[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Lucy Wilson Mysteries[[edit] | [edit source]]

Novellas[[edit] | [edit source]]

Lethbridge-Stewart[[edit] | [edit source]]

Short Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

Short Trips[[edit] | [edit source]]

Lethbridge-Stewart[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Lucy Wilson Mysteries[[edit] | [edit source]]

Audio[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Early Adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]

Short Trips[[edit] | [edit source]]

The New Counter-Measures[[edit] | [edit source]]

Reference works[[edit] | [edit source]]

Cancelled books[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. DOCTOR WHO - THE LEGACY - STAFF: Andy Frankham-Allen -. doctorwhothelegacy.com. Archived from the original on 30 October 2007. Retrieved on 5 November 2018.
  2. New Legacy Title. frankhamallen.wordpress.com. Retrieved on 5 November 2018.
  3. DOCTOR WHO: THE LEGACY - Submission guidelines. angelfire.com. Archived from the original on 30 October 2007. Retrieved on 5 November 2018.
  4. DOCTOR WHO - THE LEGACY - STAFF -. doctorwhothelegacy.com. Archived from the original on 30 October 2007. Retrieved on 5 November 2018.
  5. DOCTOR WHO - THE LEGACY - SEASON 5: Matrix Revelation -. doctorwhothelegacy.com. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved on 5 November 2018.