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Born in the sixties in North America,
Stephen Hunt is a genre writer currently residing
in London (Great Britain).
 While
many citizens of Her Majesty's realm are beating
a path to the sunny climes of Florida and California,
Stephen has so far shown little inclination to
abandon the land of the Bard, warm beer and negative
equity.
Before embarking on a career in publishing -
magazines, newspapers and books - Stephen went
to University in the UK, getting a BA (Hons) in
Marketing, followed by two years of study at the
London Institute (Saint Martins, the London College
of Printing, Camberwell College of Arts, Chelsea
College of Art and Design and the London College
of Fashion).
After running the online operations for various
large newspaper and magazine publishers, Stephen
currently writes part-time while working for an
international investment banking house.
Stephen's early pieces of short fiction - mainly
'cyberpunk' works - started to appear in the early
1990s in various genre magazines such as ProtoStellar,
Expanse, Roleplayer Independent and Hologram Tales.
His first book, the fantasy novel 'For the Crown
and the Dragon', won the WH Smith New Talent Award
in 1994 and was published by the UK's largest
bookseller under the auspices of their New Talent
Initiative.
It went on to sell thousands of copies
in paperback and got praise in reviews as
diverse as Locus, the Guardian, Science
Fiction Chronicle, Arcane, Broadsword and
various other newspapers and genre titles.
The novel and its related short fiction
sparked a sub-genre, flintlock fantasy,
which crosses the tropes of Georgian and
Napoleonic history with the conventions
of the fantasy universe.
His novels are now published by HarperCollins
in the UK alongside their two other fantasy
best-sellers, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis.
In the USA, Tor publishes Stephen's work.
Check the links page for details of his
various foreign language publishers.
Stephen is now on the management, technical
and editorial boards for SFcrowsnest.com,
the science fiction and fantasy web site
which is currently ranked as the Internet's
second most popular sci-fi site (the first
is scifi.com - the web site of the SCIFI
Channel).
A fan-run site, SFcrowsnest - aka the 'Nest'
- has to handle upwards of 800,000 readers
a month (apparently this traffic can double
when they run a scoop on popular TV series
and films, and they've proud of having previously
been thrown off the books of two ISPs for
crashing their web host's entire network
due to extreme traffic overages).
Apart from visiting his relatives in New York
and spending time with his family, Stephen enjoys
painting, Spanish cooking, shooting, reading,
PHP/mySQL programming, collecting comics, comic
art and pulp works, and generally nerding about
on his PC and Mac.
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