Mark Clapham

Mark Clapham
Birth date:	29 January 1976
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Writer
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1998-2000, 2002, 2009-10, 2014, 2018
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Soul Searching: The Unofficial Guide to the Life and Times of Ally McBeal, Small Town, Small World: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Smallville, Secret Identities - The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Alias, Warhammer 40,000

Mark Clapham (born 29 January 1976) started out writing Doctor Who fan fiction but graduated to professional writing with Beige Planet Mars, which he co-wrote with long term mentor Lance Parkin. Clapham later also co-wrote Twilight of the Gods with Jon de Burgh Miller and — for the BBC — The Taking of Planet 5 with Simon Bucher-Jones. Later on he wrote his first solo novel, Hope, for the BBC.

In 2009, he returned to the world of Benny when he edited Secret Histories. He also contributed a short story to the Iris Wildthyme collection, The Panda Book of Horror.

He is married to Mags L. Halliday.

Bibliography

Novels

Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures

• Beige Planet Mars (with Lance Parkin)
• Twilight of the Gods (with Jon de Burgh Miller)

BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures

• The Taking of Planet 5 (with Simon Bucher-Jones)
• Hope

Short stories

Short Trips

• A Town Called Eternity (with Lance Parkin; in Short Trips and Side Steps)

Big Finish Bernice Summerfield

• Linking material (in Secret Histories)
• In the Ledgers of Madness (in Present Danger)
• The Seventh Fanfic (In In Time)

Obverse Books Iris Wildthyme

• Channel 666 (in The Panda Book of Horror)
• Lilac Mars (with Lance Parkin; in Iris Wildthyme of Mars)

As editor

Big Finish Bernice Summerfield

• Secret Histories

 External links

• Throwback Interview: Mark Clapham (2002)
• BBC.co.uk website interview with Mark Clapham, 01 January 2004
• Outpost Gallifrey - Interview: Mark Clapham (archived)