Called 'a writer of considerable energy' in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, John Travis is the author of three books - a short story collection, Mostly Monochrome Stories, and two weird crime novels, The Terror and the Tortoiseshell and The Designated Coconut, the former attracting the attention of several Hollywood film companies. His many short stories and novellas have been published in anthologies and journals such as Nemonymous. British Invasion and in both volumes of The Humdrumming Books of Horror Stories, his story from the second volume, 'The Tobacconist's Concession' appearing on the 2009 shortlist for a British Fantasy Award. He's also had his work praised by TED Klein and David Renwick, and had an invisible poem read out on Radio 1 by John Hegley. Having given up his long-held ambition to become a full-time writer, he now writes what he can, when he can, when the other rubbish in his head gives him the opportunity. If by some miracle he ever did make any money from his stories about talking animals and various haunted objects and people, he'd like to move to the country or the coast, possibly Scarborough.
