Simon R. Green
	For anyone who might like to get in touch with Simon; you can send your letter to:     Simon R. Green 40, St. Laurence Rd. Bradford-on-Avon Wiltshire, BA15 1JQ UK
Photo by Rob Scott  (SFX Magazine #44, Nov. '98)
	Simon's agent: Joshua Bilmes JABberwocky Literary Agency PO Box 4558 Sunnyside, NY 11104-0558 ph/fax 718-392-5985 http://awfulagent.com

 

Well, what did I personally know about Simon R. Green? Not very much, and that is why I (one of his Dutch fans) chose to create this site (to collect as much information as I could find in one place), since this seems to be a general problem (in print AND on the WWW). Simon explains this by saying:
"I've always thought my work should be famous, rather than me."

 

AUTHOR BIO

For more detailed info: read the interviews with him on this site. They give a great insight on how his writing career started and much more.....

Simon was born in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England (where he still resides), in 1955. He has obtained an M.A. in Modern English and American Literature from Leicester University and he also studied history and has a combined Humanities degree. His writing career started in 1973, when he was a student in London. His first actual sale was a story titled Manslayer, back in 1976, but it didn't appear till much later; Awake, Awake.... was his first sale to a professional editor, in 1979. Furthermore he sold some six or seven stories to semi-pro magazines before that market disappeared practically overnight.

After years of publishers' rejection letters, he sold an incredible seven novels in 1988, just two days after he started working at Bilbo's bookshop in Bath (this after three and a half years of being unemployed!). This was followed in 1989 by two more, and a commission to write the bestselling novelization of the Kevin Costner film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, which has sold more than 370.000 copies.

This all eventually led to his most current bestselling SF/Space Opera series: The Deathstalker Saga. A series of five books, of which he himself admits that it kind of got out of hand, since it was supposed to be three 500-page books.......

At the end of 2000 we were finally able to read his long awaited return to Fantasy with the sequel to Blue Moon Rising: Beyond the Blue Moon. His next book after that was Drinking Midnight Wine. It's an urban fantasy and can be described as "light and charming mad magical".

Aside from his booming career in writing SF & F bestsellers, he has a TV sit-com out doing the rounds, is writing a stage play (a cheery upbeat piece about why so many creative people commit suicide), and yet still finds time for his own acting career (most recently rehearsing Polixines in Shakespear's Winter's Tale)...

He is a British Fantasy Society (BFS) member and a regular attender of their yearly FantasyCon. He is rumored to be an initially quiet but friendly soul, and very good on panels. He also used to fence foil..... (thanks, Caroline, for this tidbit!)
Oh, and for those interested: the sword in the above photo is part of his own collection.

So, dear reader, if you should have more info about Simon R. Green (be it in print, from word of mouth, or from the WWW), I shall be pleased to receive your feedback..... This also goes for site suggestions (typo's & such, how to improve it, etc.), or for people who have in their possession better cover scans of foreign  editions (or from out of print books) of SRG's work. The British ones I have now are not all of very good quality.

Oh, and if you feel like it, you can sign my guestbook or visit the forum to converse with other fans. At the top of this page is also a link that offers the possibility to join a SRG mailing list, this list will be used to inform its members of major site changes and also serves as a discussion board for everything related to Simon R. Green and his work; although I expect the forum will gradually take over this function.

Marcel (a.k.a. Nimitz)

INTERVIEWS

"Fifteen Years of Nothing, Then an Overnight Success" 
by Sally-Ann Melia
  Interzone , August 1993 (Issue #74) 
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"The Green Light" 
by M.J. Simpson  
SFX Magazine, November 1998 (Issue #44)
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"Simon Says..."   
by Alex Stewart
  Science Fiction World, September 2000 (Issue #4)
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"Untitled Interview"  
by Amy Harlib
  SciFiDimensions,  2000
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  "A Conversation with Simon R. Green"  
by Lisa DuMond  
SF Site, Mid-February 2001
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 "Simon R. Green"  
SFX Ultimate Guide to Fantasy, 2001