Richard Dinnick

On January 22, 1968, Richard Dinnick was born. He is a screenwriter, novelist, comedy writer, and audio dramatist from the United Kingdom. He frequently attends writing festivals and Doctor Who conventions. Dinnick began his journalism career in 1986 with the local daily Esher News & Mail. He later specialized in business writing, contributing to magazines such as Director (Institute of Directors magazine) and Real Business as a member of their editorial teams.He went to Internet Magazine in the late 1990s. During this period, he appeared on a variety of TV and radio shows, as well as newspapers and industry websites, to discuss internet-related issues. In 1999, he was also nominated for the PPA's PTC New Journalist of the Year Award.

Later, he worked on the Sunday Express's City department and led the Government Committee on Web Design Best Practice in 2002-2003. Dinnick won the 2012 BBC Writersroom opportunity to develop a new program and write for TV on the BBC. He has since then gone on to write for CBeebies TV series, Tree Fu Tom and Go Jetters, and Mind Candy's new Moshi Monsters TV show. He was one of six finalists in a BBC Academy workshop for a script for Waterloo Road in 2014. He also served as a BAFTA Judge for Children's Drama and organized a session at the 2014 Children's Media Conference. Dinnick has produced prose, screenplays, and comics for MGM's Stargate and the BBC's Doctor Who, among other media assets.

He is working on a CD release of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, including The Hound of the Baskervilles." Underwater War" was released by BBC Children's Books in 2010 as part of the tie-in Doctor Who: Alien Adventures. He has since authored books and short stories for a variety of publishers, including Penguin UK, Titan Publishing, Black Library, Running Press, and Snow Books. He has also written comics for IDW and BBC Magazines, and he's now working on Titan Comics' Twelfth Doctor line. Legendary Entertainment and Webtoon have also announced the release of an original graphic novel, Rob, in 2018, alongside titles by Jessica Chobot and John Barrowman.