About Paul Kidd

Borakk-thungg, Earthletts!

Aarrrrg... Swancon 2003 Ah – let me see. Balding bearded git. Born in 1963. An avid traveller. I have a family. Next time you’re at a con that I’m attending, come over and say hi.

I am a writer – pure and simple. I have written professionally in a wide array of media. My mainstay efforts have been in novel writing. I also write for screen and TV, comic books and games. I have been very active as a computer game designer.

At the moment, my efforts are carefully devoted to screen writing and novels, including graphic novel and games projects spun off from my primary creations. I am working doggedly to get material out into publication.

Styles

I am not a genrefied artist. My material includes works of Science Fiction, Fantasy, romance and horror. Comedy – and even adult material (usually done with a laugh!)

Why all this Furry stuff?

My "Funny" novels and scripts are a great joy to write. This is the lighter me. (TankVixens, White Plume Mountain etc. etc.)

My more dramatic work is very much more emotive. (“A Whisper of Wings”, Lilith, etc.)

Education

The Justicar and Cinders - Swancon 2002 University was a place to wear kilts to tutorials, stage massive waterfights in the agora and interfere with women sexually. I think there were some classes in there somewhere, too.

My BA degree specialized in Aztec History, English Civil War History, and had occasional sashays into Early Chinese History and English lit. In the years Since University, I have applied myself far more deeply to history, philosophy and myth. Everyone has a weird pedantic speciality or two: My ones are arms and armour, and military history.

Readers of my work will notice my ongoing insistence that fantasy should pass the test of logic. Fights are things I portray realistically. When I create a ‘fantasy’ society, it has a proper structure.

Hello Cthulhu
Tamara Carmichael
Swancon 2003

Hobbies

Melee weapons. Armour. Reading vast reams of history. Strange and meaningful comic books. Funny animals. Painting wargames armies. Playing wargames. Role playing games. Animation. Hokey war movies. Searching out groovy insects and then mellowing out with them for a while. SF conventions.

By Shannon Stuart

Weird things I like

Insects
Tanks
Armour
Strange Music
Girls with glasses.

Literary Influences

Jack Vance
Patrick O’Brian
Bernard Cornwall
Steve Purcell
The Young Ones
Douglas Adams

Pointless projects I have been on

The Discworld computer games
Lord of the Rings text games
About 3 million old Nintendo titles
(hum the "Airwolf" theme song to yourself. Now sit! Stay! Roll over!)

Where to find me

Funny Animal cons, Swancons… hiding behind the stacks of Local games stores. Better still, dress a girl up in a mouse costume with glasses, and I should be there in a nanosecond.

On occasion I sidle over to Worldcons. I will also be hitting the film markets very aggressively over the next few years.

You can also find me on the ol’ email: paul@purehubris.com

SQUEEE!!!

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