The author, Mike Chinn, has recently had short fiction published in Dark Horizons, Dark Valentine, Doomology: The Dawning of Disasters, Morpheus Tales Urban Horror Special, Null Immortalis (Nemonymous 10), Kzine and Postscripts. As well as scripting comics for DC Thomson (including an 8-week "Billy the Cat" adventure for the Beano) he has published two books on how to write comics: Writing and Illustrating the Graphic Novel and Create Your Own Graphic Novel. Previous Damian Paladin stories appeared in The Paladin Mandates and he is currently working on a further Paladin collection, Walkers in Shadow. An anthology edited by him - The Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes - has just been published.