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David Conyers started his is working career as an civil engineer, but it was not until he had done time on remote outback pipeline and mining projects did he realise that this was not the life for him. Since then he’s taken on a multitude of jobs including marketing, copywriting, web design, customer service, desktop publishing, project management, business development, quality assurance, business analyst the list goes on.
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David Conyers is an Australian based author of science fiction and dark fiction. His publications are found in the numerous anthologies including ''Horrors Beyond'', ''Hardboiled Cthulhu'', ''Arkham Tales'', ''Cthulhu Express'' and others. Magazines which have published his work include ''The Black Seal'', ''Book of Dark Wisdom'', ''Dreaming in R'lyeh'', ''Five Million Years to Earth'', ''Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries'', ''Horror Carousel'', ''Worlds of Cthulhu'', ''The Whisperer'' and online at ''Temple of Dagon'' and ''Yog-Sothoth.com''. In 2004 he joined the team at Elder Sign Press as the Associate Editor for ''Book of Dark Wisdom''. David is also an illustrator with is artwork appearing in many magazines and gaming books.  
  
In the meantime David lives to write and travel (time and money permitting). With writing he is the co-author of Pagan Publishing’s Devil’s Children and has written for Darcsyde Production’s Trauma and the upcoming Hawkmoon role-playing games. His Cthulhu Mythos short stories and articles have appeared in magazines both the United States and the United Kingdom such as The Black Seal, Dark Wisdom, Dreaming in R’lyeh and of course at Yog-Sothoth.com. His travels have taken him to six continents, South America and Africa being his favourite places, and now figures that if he visits Cairo and Shanghai he’ll have completed his Masks of Nyarlathotep world tour. Today he resides on Melbourne, Australia with his wife and their cat. Meanwhile he is hard at work on a few more projects for his favourite role-playing game, Call of Cthulhu. David's personal web site can be found at: http://www.freewebs.com/david_conyers/
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A long time gamer, he is the co-author of Pagan Publishing's ''Devil's Children'', has contributed to upcoming publications for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game produced by Chaosium Inc., including ''Secrets of San Francisco'' and the expanded editions of ''The Stars Are Right!'' and ''Spawn of Azathoth''. He has also written for Darcsyde Production's ''Trauma'' role-playing game.  
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Born in Sydney and growing up in the Adelaide Hills, David graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) from the University of Melbourne. He then worked on several remote projects in outback Western Australia such as the construction of a gas pipeline and the commissioning of a mine processing plant. Afterwards he backpacked through Africa and Europe before returning to Australia where he worked in marketing and corporate communications, eventually managing a marketing services department for a global engineering company. These days he works in marketing communications.
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He lives in Adelaide recently relocating from Melbourne in 2005 with his wife and cat. During the last eight years David has been bitten by the travel bug, his first venture overseas was not enough to settle him, and since then has explored six continents and over twenty-five countries, all of them providing inspiration for his writing.
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David's personal web site can be found at: http://www.freewebs.com/david_conyers/

Revision as of 07:06, 18 January 2006

David Conyers is an Australian based author of science fiction and dark fiction. His publications are found in the numerous anthologies including Horrors Beyond, Hardboiled Cthulhu, Arkham Tales, Cthulhu Express and others. Magazines which have published his work include The Black Seal, Book of Dark Wisdom, Dreaming in R'lyeh, Five Million Years to Earth, Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries, Horror Carousel, Worlds of Cthulhu, The Whisperer and online at Temple of Dagon and Yog-Sothoth.com. In 2004 he joined the team at Elder Sign Press as the Associate Editor for Book of Dark Wisdom. David is also an illustrator with is artwork appearing in many magazines and gaming books.

A long time gamer, he is the co-author of Pagan Publishing's Devil's Children, has contributed to upcoming publications for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game produced by Chaosium Inc., including Secrets of San Francisco and the expanded editions of The Stars Are Right! and Spawn of Azathoth. He has also written for Darcsyde Production's Trauma role-playing game.

Born in Sydney and growing up in the Adelaide Hills, David graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) from the University of Melbourne. He then worked on several remote projects in outback Western Australia such as the construction of a gas pipeline and the commissioning of a mine processing plant. Afterwards he backpacked through Africa and Europe before returning to Australia where he worked in marketing and corporate communications, eventually managing a marketing services department for a global engineering company. These days he works in marketing communications.

He lives in Adelaide recently relocating from Melbourne in 2005 with his wife and cat. During the last eight years David has been bitten by the travel bug, his first venture overseas was not enough to settle him, and since then has explored six continents and over twenty-five countries, all of them providing inspiration for his writing.

David's personal web site can be found at: http://www.freewebs.com/david_conyers/