It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today:
David Whitmarsh
Sci-Fi
David has been an avid reader of science fiction since his teenage years, back in the days when computers filled rooms, people were excited about space travel and dinosaurs roamed the Earth. He’s always had a hankering to write stories himself and in the early 1990s he even had a go, but work, marriage, and children left him little time to develop the craft. The old WordPerfect files sat on a floppy disk gathering dust for decades.
A career in software development ended with retirement in 2017, and with the children grown he had the time and resources to engage in his passions, taking guitar lessons from a local teacher, and enrolling in a two year creative writing course with the Creative Writing Programme in Brighton. During the course he started his first attempt at a novel: The Long Fall.The mistakes made in writing that bloated monster were as educational as the course itself. (He intends to revisit and publish it at some point.) Another novel, When The Enemy Comes, is in the editing phase.
The first publication success came in 2020 when Mythaxis published his short story Winter. Several others followed in various magazines. Recognition came when a draft of his novel The Measurement Problem won the Science Museum SF Debuts Prize, a competition run as part of the London Science Museum’s ‘Voyage to the Edge of Imagination’ exhibition in 2022/23. More recently his short story Asylum received the Kepler Award, sponsored by Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores.
When he’s not travelling or hiking David lives in West Sussex with his wife and two cats, and from time to time one or more of his boomerang offspring.
https://www.limfic.com/mbm-book-author/david-whitmarsh
