Stephen Cole (born 1971) [4] (sometimes published under the pseudonym Tara Summs ) is a popular British author of books in the genre of science fiction and children's books.
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He was responsible for the BBC merchandising from 1997 to 1999, deciding which stories should be put on sale. He was also the editor of the book series “The Past Adventures of the Doctor ” and “ The Adventures of the Eighth Doctor ”. For the latter, he approved the publication of “Foreign Bodies” by Lawrence Miles [5] .
Early life and career
Cole was born in 1971 and raised in Bedfordshire . He studied at the University of East Anglia in 1989–1992, where he studied English literature and film studies and received a bachelor of arts degree with distinction. After working briefly on local radio, BBC Radio Bedfordshire became a junior assistant at BBC Children's Magazines in 1993. By 1996, he was the group editor of preschool magazines, managing the team and following the release of various magazines and special publications. In the summer of 1996, he wrote his first children's books, Cars on Mars , Alien Olympiads , School on Saturn, and Nasty Martians [6] .
Two floors above Cob’s BBC Children's Books colleague was Nuala Baffini, and they often met during lunch and meetings. Cole's curiosity was piqued when he learned that BBC Books regain its rights to publish Doctor Who fiction on the wave of the success of the Doctor Who film in 1996 and that Buffini will launch the new Eighth Doctor Adventures and Past Doctor Adventures series when the necessary personnel are recruited . Buffini was soon filled up with new novels, and Cole’s participation in the series began with their reading. When the post of project editor for the science fiction department was announced, Cole, being a lifelong fan of the Doctor, applied for and received permission.
Buffini assigned him the first six books for the Eighth Doctor Adventures series , although one of them - Legacy of the Daleks - was published later in the series so that stories about the Daleks were published one after another. This means that the first novel Cole worked on was actually published by Lawrence Mills' sixth Foreign Bodies . Cole also edited the BBC storybooks, Short Travels , for which he began writing under the pseudonym Tara Samms and Paul Grice. Since then, he has published other works under these pseudonyms, including the story of Doctor Who Battered (2003), which was included in a series published by Telos Publishing Ltd. He also wrote several short stories and audio plays for Big Finish Productions. The key to Samma’s true identity can be found in the “About the Author” section at the end of the Shabby, in which the author’s insomniac dog is described by the mysterious phrase: “he slept once” is an anagram from Stephen Cole.
In addition to books, he was also commissioned with story cuts to include various books about Doctor Who and select TV stories for home video release.
Further life
Torn between supervising and editing 22 novels a year, publishing publicistic works, audio books and videos, Cole went to the children's department to become a special editor and consultant for the audience in 1999, where he commissioned and wrote children's books related to such series like Walking With Dinosaurs and Microsoap . He retained responsibility for some of Dr. Who’s novels on a freelance basis, before handing them over to the care of editor-in-chief Justin Richards .
Leaving BBC Worldwide in October 1999, Cole moved to become editor-in-chief for Ladybird Books. But, while continuing to write for TV and film-cutting, he lacked engagement with fiction. After working as a senior editor at Simon and Schuster Children's Books, he became a freelancer in 2002, editing fewer books to write more of his own. Cole's first original work was a trilogy called Welling published by Bloomsbury . He continued to work on the trilogy of the adventures of the criminal teen-genius John Vish and his friends (also published as the Aztec Code and Cipher Pedigree ). He is also the author of several more works about Doctor Who, including four from the new series.
Works
Teenage fiction
Trilogy Werling
- Werling: Wounded, 2003
- Verling 2: Victim, 2004
- Verling 3: Resurrection, 2004
Doctor Who Novels
- Adventures of the Eighth Doctor ( BBC )
- Parallel 59
- Progenitor cell
- Eternal
- For slaughter
- Adventures of the Past Doctors (BBC)
- Shadow in a glass (with Justin Richards )
- Ten Little Aliens
- Novels from Telos
- Battered
- Adventures for the New Series (BBC)
- Novels
- Monsters inside
- Holiday drowning
- Art of destruction
- Zigon sting
- Audiobooks
- Steel ring
Works published by Big Finish
Bernice Summerfield novels
- Gods of the Underworld (Bernice Summerfield)
Doctor Who Releases
- Land of the Dead ( Fifth Doctor ) (1999)
- Element of the Apocalypse ( Sixth Doctor ) (2001)
- The Hormouse ( Sixth Doctor ) (2004)
- Fitz Story ( Eighth Doctor ) part Company of Friends (2008)
- The Whispering Forest ( Fifth Doctor ) (2010)
- The Kiss of Death ( Fifth Doctor ) (2011)
- Masquerade ( Fifth Doctor ) (2014)
Other releases
- Places of Ekselisa (Bernice Summerfield, Iris Wildtime)
- Relics of Dzhegg-Sau (Bernice Summerfield)
- The Dance of the Dead (Bernice Summerfield)
- Gallifrey: Circles ( Gallifrey )
- Gallifrey: Spirit (Gallifrey)
- Gallifrey: Fractures (Gallifrey)
- Devil in miss wildtime (iris wildtime)
Notes
- ↑ CONOR
- ↑ Record # 15713580v // General Catalog of the National Library of France
- B BNF ID : Open Data Platform - 2011.
- ↑ Steve Cole (inaccessible link) . Rbooks.co.uk. The date of circulation is May 5, 2015. Archived February 20, 2012.
- ↑ Cox, John the Bond Title And Cover Art Revealed! Thebookbond.com (May 28, 2014). The appeal date is May 5, 2015.
- ↑ Biography . Archived June 17, 2009.
Links
- astrosaurs.co.uk - the official website of Stephen Cole
- Interview "Tara site samms" on the Air Force, Doctor Who site.
- Steve Cole Audio Interview: Cows, Dinosaurs and Doctor Who on Scottish, Book, Trust Site
- Stephen Cole in fantastic fiction
- Cole, Stephen (writer) on the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Stephen Cole in the Library of Congress Power, with 27 directory entries
- Samantha Cole and Tara site samms (pseudonyms) in the LC authority, no records