David Conyers

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David Conyers
Born May 30, 1971 (1971-05-30) (age 37)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation Writer
Nationality Flag of Australia Australian
Writing period mid 2000s-present
Genres Science fiction, horror
Influences
Official website

David Conyers (born Sydney, Australia, May 30, 1971) is a writer based in Adelaide, South Australia. His writes predominantly science fiction and Lovecraftian horror.

Most of his childhood was spent in the Adelaide Hills, before moving to Melbourne. There he achieved a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at the University of Melbourne in 1993. After several years working on remote outback construction sites in Western Australia, and extensive travel in Africa and Europe in 1995, he settled back in Melbourne taking up a career in marketing and corporate communications. He moved to Adelaide in 2005 where he now lives with his wife and daughter.

David published his first professional story Vanishing Curves in the Book of Dark Wisdom in 2004 and his first novel, The Spiraling Worm co-authored with United States horror writer John Sunseri, was published by Chaosium in 2007. The novel went on to receive an Honourable Mention for Best Australian Horror Novel in the 12th Annual Aurealis Award and the 2007 Australian Shadows Award. His science fiction short stories have been nominated for the Aurealis Award, the Australian Shadows Award, the Ditmar Award and the Aeon Award, the last presented by the Irish speculative fiction magazine Albedo One. In 2007 he won the Australian Horror Writers Association's Flash Fiction Award for his story Homo Canis. Recurring themes in David’s work includes human rights abuse, totalitarianism, self-identity, and self-actualization.

Between 2004 and 2007, David was the Associate Editor of the Book of Dark Wisdom. At the same time he was writing and editing role-playing games, predominately for the Call of Cthulhu setting, based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft and published by Chaosium Inc.

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[edit] Bibliography

[edit] The Jack Dixon/Harrison Peel series

Modern day Lovecraftian horror novel series set in the world of spies, government conspiracies and cosmic monsters.

[edit] Anthology appearances

  • False Containment (2005), Horrors Beyond, ed. William Jones, Elder Signs Press.
  • Aftermath (2006), Agog! Ripping Reads, ed. Cat Sparks, Agog! Press.
  • Regrowth (2006), Arkham Tales, ed. William Jones, Chaosium Inc.
  • Outside, Looking In (2006), Hardboiled Cthulhu, ed. James Ambuehl, Elder Signs Press.
  • As Above, So Below (2007), Secrets of Kenya, Chaosium Inc.
  • Subtle Invasion (2007), The Black Book of Horror, ed. Charles Black, Mortbury Press.
  • Soft Viscosity (2008), 2012, ed. Alisa Krasnostein and Ben Payne, Twelfth Planet Press.
  • Hell’s Ambassador (2008), Black Box, ed. Shane Jiraiya Cummings, Brimstone Press.
  • Sweet as Decay (2008) with David Witteveen, Macabre, ed. Angela Challis and Marty Young, Brimstone Press.
  • Stomach Acid (2008) with Brian M Sammons, Cthulhu Unbound, ed. John Sunseri, Permuted Press.
  • Sister of the Sands (2008), Cthulhu's Dark Cults, ed. David Conyers, Chaosium Inc.
  • The Hag of Zais (2008), Eldritch Steel, ed. James Ambuehl & Steven Shrewsbury Elder Signs Press.

[edit] Selected magazine appearances

  • Vanishing Curves (2004), Book of Dark Wisdom #3, ed. William Jones, Elder Signs Press.
  • Solvent Hunger (2005), Book of Dark Wisdom #5, ed. William Jones, Elder Signs Press.
  • The Faceless Watchers (2005), Lovecraft’s Weird Mysteries #10.
  • Aftermath (2007), Apex Online ed. Jason Sizemore (Reprint).
  • Homo Canis (2008), Shadowed Realms #13, ed. Angela Challis, Brimstone Press.

[edit] Interviews

[edit] Miscellaneous