Wake, David
Entry updated 17 July 2023. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(1962- ) UK playwright, author and editor. While at university in the early 1980s he, along with fellow-student Rob Meades, defined and named the Drabble – a 100-word Flash Fiction story format. One hundred drabbles, many donated by sf authors including Isaac Asimov and Terry Pratchett, were collected as The Drabble Project (anth 1988) edited as David B Wake with Meades, and published as a charity fundraiser. Two further volumes followed [see Checklist below]. As a novelist Wake started with the grim fairy tale The Other Christmas Carol (2010) and the wryly humorous I, Phone (2013) before embarking on two series, the steampunk The Derring-Do Club and the dystopian crime thriller Thinkersphere. Both series continue, as does his work as a usually non-genre playwright. [RR]
David Brian Wake
born 22 December 1962
works
series
The Derring-Do Club
- The Derring-Do Club and the Empire of the Dead (Birmingham, England: Watledge Books, 2013) [The Derring-Do Club: pb/Smuzz]
- The Derring-Do Club and the Year of the Chrononauts (Birmingham, England: Watledge Books, 2014) [The Derring-Do Club: pb/Smuzz]
- The Derring-Do Club and the Invasion of the Grey (Birmingham, England: Watledge Books, 2016) [The Derring-Do Club: pb/Smuzz]
- The Derring-Do Club in Death on the Suez (Birmingham, England: Watledge Books, 2019) [The Derring-Do Club: pb/Smuzz]
- The Derring-Do Club and the Sisterhood of the Death-Goddess (Birmingham, England: Watledge Books, 2022) [The Derring-Do Club: pb/Paul McCaffrey]
Thinkersphere
- Hashtag (Birmingham, England: Watledge Books, 2014) [Thinkersphere: pb/Sean Strong]
- Atcode (Birmingham, England: Watledge Books, 2019) [Thinkersphere: pb/Sean Strong]
- Plus Sign (Birmingham, England: Watledge Books, 2020) [Thinkersphere: pb/Sean Strong]
individual titles
- The Other Christmas Carol (Birmingham, England: Watledge Books, 2010) [pb/Smuzz]
- I, Phone (Birmingham, England: Watledge Books, 2013) [pb/Smuzz]
- Crossing the Bridge (Birmingham, England: Watledge Books, 2017) [pb/Smuzz]
- The Murders of Conky Whallop (Birmingham, England: Watledge Books, 2022) [pb/Dave Slaney]
- Dawn and Dave of the Dead (Birmingham, England: Watledge Books, 2023) [pb/David Wake]
nonfiction
- Punk Publishing: How Self-Publishing Indie Authors Took Over the Book World – A DIY Guide! (Birmingham, England: Punk Publishers, 2017) with Andy Conway [nonfiction: pb/Simon Moody]
works as editor
series
Drabble
- The Drabble Project (Harold Wood, Essex: Beccon Publications, 1988) as David B Wake, with Rob Meades [anth: Drabble: hb/Roger Robinson]
- Drabble II: Double Century (Harold Wood, Essex: Beccon Publications, 1990) as David B Wake, with Rob Meades [anth: Drabble: hb/Sylvia Starshine]
- Drabble Who (Harold Wood, Essex: Beccon Publications, 1993) as David B Wake, with David Howe [anth: Doctor Who: Drabble: hb/Paul Vyse]
individual titles as editor
- New Street Stories (Birmingham, England: New Street Authors, 2018) with Andy Conway [anth: pb/Simon Moody]
links
previous versions of this entry