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Steve Redwood

Steve Redwood was born on a rainy day in 1943. It was still raining twenty-five years later, so he left the country in a huff, a raincoat, and a plane. Most of his life has been a textbook study of uselessness, large chunks of it misspent in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Spain. He has avoided serious work by teaching, and marriage by running away - hence the frequent changes of country. He is at present hiding out in Madrid.

He first burst upon a flabbergasted world as a major literary talent at the age of twelve, when, just prior to his expulsion, the school magazine published a moving poem about a tramp, a daisy, and a cheese sandwich. His creative juices (and the sandwich) then dried up for nearly forty-five years, but then, having lost hair, teeth and hope, he sought a profession where the lack of these accoutrements is not uncommon: he decided to become a Writer. Since then he has never looked back, mainly because of torticollis.

His humorous fantasy novel, Fisher of Devils (Prime Books USA), was nominated for the British Fantasy Society 2003 Best Novel Award, much to the annoyance of his chapbook of short stories, The Heisenberg Mutation and Other Transfigurations (D-Press) which hasn't yet been nominated for anything. The author is quite happy to negotiate bribes to rectify this unjust situation.

He has also shared a consulting room with Michael Moorcock, China Mieville, Jeff Vandermeer, and other dubious doctors in the Hugo and World Fantasy award runner-up Thackery T Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases (Pan Macmillan/Bantam), cracked a joke or two with Tom Holt, Esther Friesner, Neil Gaiman and assorted pranksters in The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy (Constable, July 2005) and trembled fearfully with various unnameable and frightening creatures in Darkness Rising 2005 (Prime Books) and The Blackest Death (Black Death Books). In addition, due to an inspired mixture of bribes, threats, and, especially, tearful cover letters, he has managed to get around 50 short stories published in various magazines - including Quality Women's Fiction, under the guise of an imaginary sister.

Who Needs Cleopatra? is his second full-length novel.
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