Andrew Morris was born in
Worcester, England in the late 1960s.
He's been a writer for over thirty years, regularly
producing fiction, reviews and articles on diverse subjects
and, quite frequently, under a baffling array of noms-de-plume.
His earliest works saw print in the 1980s, in
science-fiction and horror themed small-press publications
like Unearthly Child, Into The Darkness, Cold Sweat, and
In
The Flesh. Since the late-1990s he's been sporadically
producing articles for mainstream publications, Fortean
Times, BBC Wildlife and GoreZone amongst them.
As an illustrator and photographer, his works have seen
print in publications both sides of the Atlantic. His
etchings are mostly Sci-Fi in nature, whilst his photography
focuses primarily on the natural world and wildlife. His
most recent contribution in the field of book illustration
was to provide the internal artwork for Sabotage of the Daleks by Chloe
Mortimer.
He has also occasionally worked in the British film and
television industry both behind and in front of the camera,
including Chimera (1989) Lycanthropy (Dir. Kevin McDonagh,
2006) and Faint Heart (Dir. Vito Rocco, 2008).
His first full-length novel, now out of print, was Given - A
Very Personal Apocalypse, published by Pipit Books in 2012.
It was an Amazon Best-Seller for two consecutive weekends,
but proved to be rather controversial, somehow managing to
annoy certain people from both sides of the atheist /
religious fence. Broadly speaking, however, the novel was
lauded and met with favourable reviews during the ten years
it was in print.
He's also had proper jobs; he worked in a shop on Worcester
High Street for a few years in the late 1980s, running the
8-bit computer games counter. He managed a One Hour Photo
Lab back in the days when cameras used 35mm film - but
digital technology made his position redundant. He was a
Cinema Projectionist back in the days when projectors ran
35mm film... you can probably guess how that turned out.
He's been a volunteer Aid Worker in Africa, and spent
several years as a Coach and then Personnel Manager in the
Logistics field.
He now lives in a rural village near Ashby-de-la-Zouch,
where he's currently working on his third novel and also
co-creating a second Time and Fate book. |
Photo Credit: Laura Dodd, Jan 2023
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