David Conyers
Science Fiction Author
ABOUT DAVID
David Conyers is an Australian based author of science fiction and dark fiction. His first novel The Spiraling Worm co-authored with John Sunseri will be published by Chaosium Inc. in 2007. His short stories are found in the numerous anthologies in several speculative fiction magazines and journals. In 2004 he joined the team at Elder Sign Press as the Associate Editor for Book of Dark Wisdom, a role he kept for three years. Today he is a columnist for the Irish speculative fiction magazine Albedo 1.
His fiction includes Science Fiction, Dark Fiction, Cthulhu Mythos, and his weird science fiction series featuring his ongoing character Harrison Peel, who is a central character to the novel The Spiraling Worm. He has been nominated for several awards including the Aeon, Aurealis, Ditmar and Australian Shadows, and is a winner of the Australian Horror Writers Assocation's Flash Fiction Award.
He is the author of Secrets of Kenya and co-author of Devil's Children both for the Call of Cthulhu game. He has contributed to other publications for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game including Secrets of San Francisco and the expanded edition of The Stars Are Right! David is also an illustrator with his artwork appearing in many magazines and gaming books, including Secrets of Kenya.
Born in Sydney and growing up in the Adelaide Hills, David graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) from the University of Melbourne. He worked on several remote projects in outback Western Australia including the construction of a gas pipeline and the commissioning of a mine processing plant. Afterwards he backpacked through Africa and Europe before returning to Australia where he worked in marketing and corporate communications, eventually managing a marketing services department for a global engineering company. Today he works in marketing management role again in construction.
In 2005 he relocated to Adelaide with his wife, daughter and two cats. During the last ten years David has been bitten by the travel bug, his first venture overseas was not enough to settle him, and since then has explored six continents and over twenty-five countries, all of them providing inspiration for his writing.
Read David's Wikipedia entry here. A high resolution picture of the author can be downloaded here.
Online Fiction
The following links are to various stories by David Conyers that are published on the Internet.
Science Fiction
Aftermath
Redemption Slot Machine
Cthulhu Mythosre
Five Sisters
Made of Meat
Vanishing Curves
Interviews
- Podcast: Halloween Ghast Fest, with David Conyers (The Writing Show, 30 October 2008)
- Podcast: Halloween Ghast Fest, with David Conyers (The Writing Show, 30 October 2007)
- OzHorrorScope Interview (26 August 2007)
- 2007 Snapshot Interview (ASif!, August 2007)
- Adelaide author delves into Cthulhu Mythos (ABC News Online, 9 July 2007)
- David Conyers Author Interview (Yog-Sothoth.com, May 2007)
- Half a Page with... David Conyers (SA Writers' Centre, April 2007)
Online Journal
Purchase David's Books
David's books can be purchased on Amacon.com. In Australian his books can be found at Infinitas Bookshop.
