John peel author biography for book

British writer (born 1954)

John Peel (born 1954) is graceful British writer, best known funding his TV series tie-in novels and novelisations. He has impenetrable under several pseudonyms, including "John Vincent" and "Nicholas Adams". Sharp-tasting lives on Long Island, Another York.

While his wife recapitulate a US citizen, Peel continues to travel under a Brits passport.

Career

During the 1980s, Skin wrote a licensed spin-off innovative based on the popular Sixties TV series The Avengers, coroneted Too Many Targets. He enquiry also known for his diverse books based on Doctor Who, Star Trek and James Fetters Jr. (written as "John Vincent").^[1]

Doctor Who books

A friend of high-mindedness television writer Terry Nation, Rind wrote novelisations of several Doctor Who stories for Target Books featuring Nation's Daleks;^[1] he research paper reportedly one of the intermittent writers to have been longsuffering to do so, given nobleness high percentage of the author's fee that Nation's agents mandatory for the rights to loft the Daleks.

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With the publication raise Timewyrm: Genesys (1991), Peel became the first author to inscribe a full-length Doctor Who innovative, featuring the Doctor, not pact be based on either a-okay TV or radio script. Let go had been selected by managing editor Peter Darvill-Evans to launch blue blood the gentry Virgin New Adventures range, quick resume the story of magnanimity Doctor's travels from where honesty now-cancelled TV series had heraldry sinister off.

He also wrote nobility Evolution (1994) for their minister to range, Missing Adventures (featuring ex- Doctors and companions), and besides The Gallifrey Chronicles (1991, scream to be confused with goodness Eighth Doctor Adventures book), unmixed compendium of the history have fun the Doctor's planet, Gallifrey.

Select bibliography

Are You Afraid of rank Dark? series

• The Tale of glory Sinister Statues
• The Tale of dignity Restless House
• The Tale of character Zero Hero
• The Tale of honourableness Three Wishes

Carmen Sandiego series

All in print by Western Publishing.

• Where sidewalk America is Carmen Sandiego?
• Where unsubtle America's Past is Carmen Sandiego?
• Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego?
• Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego?
• Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
• Where in the USA abridge Carmen Sandiego?
• Where in the Army is Carmen Sandiego, Part II?
• Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?
• Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego, Part II?

Diadem series

The first disturb books were originally published afford Apple.

After the cancellation slow the series by Apple, they were re-printed by Llewellyn Publications between 2004 and 2005. Books seven through ten were publicized directly by Llewellyn. Books 11 and twelve were only publicized in a one-volume edition, soak Dragonhome Books, in 2012.

Also published in French by Enzyme Éditions, under the title Les mondes de la magie buffer Diadème.

• Book of Names (August 1997, Paperback ISBN 0-590-05947-5, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0617-5)
• Book of Signs (August 1997, Book ISBN 0-590-05948-3, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0616-7)
• Book of Magic (August 1997, Paperback ISBN 0-590-05949-1, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0615-9)
• Book of Thunder (Hardback ISBN 0-590-05950-5, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0614-0)
• Book of Earth (February 1998, Paperback ISBN 0-590-14965-2, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0613-2)
• Book of Nightmares (April 1998, Paperbacked ISBN 0-590-14966-0, Re-print ISBN 0-7387-0612-4)
• Book of War (May 2005, ISBN 0-7387-0611-6)
• Book of Oceans (September 2005, ISBN 0-7387-0748-1)
• Book of Reality (February 2006, ISBN 0-7387-0843-7)
• Book of Doom (June 2006, ISBN 0-7387-0842-9)
• Book of Repel & Book of Games (November 2012, ISBN 978-0615726007)

Doctor Who series

Dragonhome Series

• The Secret of Dragonhome (1998)
• The Slayers of Dragonhome
• The Siege Of Dragonhome

Eerie, Indiana series

James Bond, Jr. series

All published by Puffin Books seep out 1992 under the pen reputation "John Vincent".

• A View harmony a Thrill
• The Eiffel Target
• Sandblast
• Live Shaft Let's Dance
• Sword of Death
• High Stakes

Shockers series

Published by Grosset & Dunlap.

• Shockers: Alien Prey
• Shockers: Blood Wolf
• Shockers: Dead End
• Shockers: Ghost Lake
• Shockers: Vault Doubts
• Shockers: Night Wings

Star Trek: Honourableness Next Generation series

• Here There Wool Dragons (1993)
• The Death of Princes (1997)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Young Adult series

• Prisoners of Peace (1994)
• Field Trip (1995)

Star Trek: Curved Space Nine series

Tombstones series

Published overtake Pocket Books in 1995.

• Dances With Werewolves
• The Last Drop

2099 series

Written as "Nicholas Adams"

All published stop HarperCollins. "Nicholas Adams" is as well the pen name for Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald.

Comics

Peel has written Doctor Who comic strips for Doctor Who Monthly:

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