Your Sinclair - Where Are They Now?

Where Are They Now?

Today it is unusual to find former YS writers as regular staff members in the mainstream press; however, many of them continue to work in the industry as freelancers.

• Marcus Berkmann writes for Private Eye, The Oldie and The Spectator and has published several books.
• Phil South was a freelance writer for Amiga Format and Computer Shopper, then was a freelance contractor for Disney Channel in the UK. He is currently working at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
• Dave Golder was the editor of SFX from 1996 until 2005, then after a short break returned to work alongside the current team with the title Special Projects Editor.
• Stuart Campbell continued to work for Amiga Power and other magazines before going to work for Sensible Software as a designer. He subsequently created the World of Stuart site, a cross between a blog and a portfolio of his work for potential employers.
• Matt Bielby launched and edited a number of magazines for Future and other publishers, including SFX, Total Film, .net and Nuts.
• Teresa 'T'zer' Maughan has written a number of pop books and worked on Star Pets magazine.
• Pete Shaw (aka Troubleshootin' Pete) is now a freelance computer programmer and theatre producer.
• Jonathan Davies, a staff writer and regular contributor, went on to edit Amiga Power and PC Gamer. He now runs the Games Press website, a PR resource for the games industry.
• Jonathan Nash, YS's last editor, also went on to work for Amiga Power and PC Gamer, and was also responsible for the short-lived satirical webzine The Weekly. He recently resurfaced with the similar Or Something, a collection of video game reviews, short stories and other articles.
• Tony Lee, Joystick Juggler in the late eighties is now a #1 New York Times Best Selling List writer of audio dramas, comics and graphic novels, most recently known as the writer of the ongoing Doctor Who comic for IDW.
• Simon Cooke went on to write for .net, Internet Today, Internet & Comms Today, Net User, How To Get Online and Arcane. He currently works for X-Ray Kid Studios as Director of Engineering, and was Principle Technology Engineer and Lead Gameplay Engineer on This is Vegas for Surreal Software; he also worked on The Suffering: Ties That Bind.
• Nat Pryce now consults in software design and development and was a winner of the 2006 Gordon Pask Award for contributions to Agile practice. He is the author of Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests.
• Leigh Loveday, a regular letter writer and reviewer in the latter days of the magazine, now works for Rare.
• David McCandless since became a freelance writer for Wired, The Guardian, Tank, and The Independent, and writes and designs the blog Information is Beautiful.
• Rich Pelley now writes for Ralph, Loaded, NME and The Guardian.