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Tim Lebbon

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January 01, 1969 in London, The United Kingdom

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I was born in London in 1969, lived in Devon until I was eight, and the next twenty years were spent in Newport. My wife Tracey and I then did a Good Thing and moved back to the country, and we now live in the little village of Goytre in Monmouthshire with our kids Ellie and Daniel. It’s a lovely place – pub, shop, chip shop, school – and we’re very happy here. Two minutes’ walk in any direction and we’re in the countryside, and the area has featured, intentionally or not, in much of my writing.

I’ve been writing ever since I can remember. The first story I recall actually finishing was when I was nine years old. It involved a train hijacking (yeah, a train has about ten thousand doors and is probably the hardest moving vehicle to hijack … b...more I was born in London in 1969, lived in Devon until I was eight, and the next twenty years were spent in Newport. My wife Tracey and I then did a Good Thing and moved back to the country, and we now live in the little village of Goytre in Monmouthshire with our kids Ellie and Daniel. It’s a lovely place – pub, shop, chip shop, school – and we’re very happy here. Two minutes’ walk in any direction and we’re in the countryside, and the area has featured, intentionally or not, in much of my writing.

I’ve been writing ever since I can remember. The first story I recall actually finishing was when I was nine years old. It involved a train hijacking (yeah, a train has about ten thousand doors and is probably the hardest moving vehicle to hijack … but I was nine years old!), and one of the hijackers being clumsy enough to drop his gun. Naturally my hero found the gun and went on a killing spree. Die Hard on the 10:17 from Paddington.

In my teens I began about nine million novels, and finished none of them. They varied from World War Two action adventures to ’70s style disaster novels. Some had spooky elements, some did not, and it wasn’t until I was twenty that I wrote my first horror story, “Black Heart”. I still have it somewhere … and I suspect it will remain hidden away forever!

My first published story was in the UK indie magazine Psychotrope in 1994, and in 1997 Tanjen published my first novel Mesmer. Since then I’ve had over almost thirty books published in the UK and US by Bantam Spectra, Allison & Busby, Night Shade Books, Simon & Schuster, Leisure Books, PS Publishing, Necessary Evil Press, Cemetery Dance and many others, with many more due soon. Check out the Library section for details.

Quite a few of my novellas and novels have been optioned for the screen, including White (written by Stephen Susco), Exorcising Angels, Until She Sleeps, Face, In Perpetuiry, and The Nature of Balance. They’re all ‘in development’ right now, which means anything from ‘We’re trying to find a writer’ to ‘We have major studio interest and it’s only a matter of time’. There are several others projects about to enter such a stage of development. One day …

Late in 2006 I took the plunge into full-time writing and it’s going well. There’s plenty of exciting news on the horizon – new book deals, film options and other stuff – and you’ll find details posted at this site as and when they happen.(less)

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	Hellboy: Unnatural Selection by Tim Lebbon (Goodreads Author), Mike Mignola (Illustrator) 4.20 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	My rating:
	30 Days of Night by Tim Lebbon (Goodreads Author), Steve Niles, Stuart Beattie 3.98 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Berserk 3.60 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Dusk 3.53 avg rating — 226 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Dawn 3.50 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Echo City 3.40 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Fallen 3.67 avg rating — 93 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Thief of Broken Toys 3.80 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Fears Unnamed 3.67 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Nature of Balance 3.40 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Assassin Series (3 books)
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“All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did not breathe or think, but they grew and gave a sense of potential so much larger than whatever was written on their pages.”
― Tim Lebbon, Dawn

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“Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.”
― Tim Lebbon, Fallen

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“Voyaging great distances – through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains – is all about finding ourselves.”
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The Scent of Shadows The First Sign of the Zodiac by Vicki Pettersson

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Mr. Darcy Vampyre by Amanda Grange

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The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

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The Everlasting by Tim Lebbon

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