Guy Adams collects careers like baseball cards. In his, surprisingly limited, time he has tried his hand at Museum Curator, Tour Guide, Historical Researcher, Newsagent…

His main occupations, however, have always been acting and writing. In the former he has mugged people in Emmerdale, watched Rugby in Where The Heart Is, perved around in his y-fronts simulating sex with a woman dressed as a horse (Jean Genet’s The Balcony) and earned something of a reputation by impersonating real people (Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw and Hitler, to name but a few). He also toured as one half of the wittily titled Adams & Jarrett on the comedy circuit and is the youngest actor to portray Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes professionally.

As a writer, he has churned out scripts for the above comedy shows and falsified Elizabethan Mummer’s Plays. A couple of novels, More Than This and The Imagineer have earned nothing but people seem to like them so he doesn’t let it worry him. He is the author of three books about the television series Life On Mars — two for Simon & Schuster and one for Transworld. If nothing else, these have kept him in Gin.

He is currently working on a big book about Sherlock Holmes, a Deadbeat novella or three and a children’s book set in his adoptive country of Spain which he is rather hopeful that one of the previous mentioned publishers will pay him good money for.

• Humdrumming Titles by Guy Adams
  • More Than This: 978-1-905532-05-6
  • Deadbeat: Makes You Stronger: 978-1-905532-37-7
  • Deadbeat: Dogs of Waugh: 978-1-905532-14-8
  • Deadbeat: Old Bones [forthcoming]: 978-1-905532-21-6
  • The First Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories [contribution]: 978-1-905532-48-3

Commissioning Editor — Steve Newman

Steve Newman is a playwright, director, actor, historian, and freelance writer, who lives and works in Shakespeare’s Stratford.

In 1997 Steve, along with two other Stratford playwrights, founded The Bird of Prey Theatre Company, which is dedicated to promoting new work. Since that time BoP has produced fourteen new plays by writers from around the world.

Steve writes regular features for such magazines as Writers’ Forum, Book & Magazine Collector, Family History Monthly, The Dalesman, Citizen Culture, and The Writer.

Currently Steve is writing a history of Stratford’s theatres, and continues to write Swann & Parker mysteries, the first of which, The Crime of the Crimea: A Staged Murder, will be published in the spring of 2009. His online serial, Ernest Hemingway: Going the Other Way From Home, is available on the Syntagma Media Network.

Steve is also working on a new play, The Reckoning, based on the book, Jochen Peiper: Battlecommander SS Liebstandarde Adolf Hitler, by Charles Whiting, which will receive its première in Vancouver. 

• Humdrumming Titles by Steve Newman:
  • The Crime of the Crimea: A Staged Murder [forthcoming]: 978-1-905532-06-3
  • The Crime of the Crimea: The House on the Hill [forthcoming]: 978-1-905532-13-1
  • Portrait of the Artist [forthcoming]: 978-1-905532-08-7
  • A Summer Garden [forthcoming]: 978-1-905532-09-4
  • Ancient Pinnacles [forthcoming]: 978-1-905532-10-0
  • Cromwell: The Play [forthcoming]: 978-1-905532-11-7
  • Across the River [forthcoming]: 978-1-905532-12-4

Commissioning Editor, Web Monkey — Ian Alexander Martin

Ian has been both an arts journalist and editor, as well as an actor and theatre director based in British Columbia (the westernmost Province in Canada). He was also the Founding Editor and Publisher of the theatre magazine The Boards.

This past September he left the North American continent for the first time and visited both England and Spain where he broke things with a facility known to but a rare few.

As a stage actor, he has portrayed everything from God, to circus show workers, to literary critics and countless servants far brighter than their masters. On film he’s been seen as an Evil Mime Criminal (Bricklayer), a man recoiling in horror as Poe's wife coughs up blood (Masters of Horror, “The Black Cat”), and as many fuzzy blobs in large-budget films.

As a director, he has assisted on productions of Pericles, Prince of Tyre and Long Day’s Journey Into Night (nothing like a bit of light comedy to get your feet wet, eh?); and directed the première of Cowabunga, as well as a critically acclaimed production of Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9.

He lives near Vancouver, with his wife who occasionally succeeds in dragging him kicking and screaming from the keyboard.

• Humdrumming Titles by Ian Alexander Martin:
  • The First Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories [as editor]: 978-1-905532-48-3
  • Canada for Foreigners [forthcoming]: 978-1-905532-25-4