Keith Topping

Keith Andrew Topping (born 26 October 1963 in Walker, Tyneside) is an author, journalist and broadcaster.

Topping's family have Irish, Scottish, East Anglian (Snape, Suffolk, Great Yarmouth) and Cumbrian (Crosby-on-Eden) roots as well as North Eastern[citation needed].

[citation needed] He worked for the Civil Service as an Administrative Officer in the, then, Department of Employment between 1983 and 2001 when he left to pursue a full-time freelance writing career.

[citation needed] Topping's first published fiction was the BBC Books "Past Doctor Adventure" The Devil Goblins from Neptune in 1997.

[citation needed] Topping also wrote the Telos Doctor Who novella Ghost Ship which was published in 2002[6] and reissued as a paperback in 2003.