Lance Parkin - Other Works

Other Works

Around 1999, Parkin joined Virgin alumni Rebecca Levene and Gareth Roberts to work on the production team of television soap Emmerdale, though he also once appeared as an extra in the series. Though he never scripted episodes for television he later wrote both non-fiction (including 30 Years of Emmerdale) and fiction (Mandy's Secret Diary, Their Finest Hour) connected to the series. Since leaving Emmerdale he has not worked for TV but concentrates on books and comics.

Parkin wrote non-fiction as well, including guides to Star Trek (Beyond the Final Frontier) and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series (Dark Matters: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Philip Pullman's 'Dark Materials' Trilogy), both written with long-time friend Mark Jones, and Secret Identities: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Alias with Mark Clapham.

This was followed by Miranda, a comic based on a character in his Doctor Who novel Father Time. Published through the small independent company of Comeuppance Comics, it stalled after its third issue, but other comic work followed. Though in 2003 Comeuppance said it hoped to publish the three remaining issues at some point in the future nothing more was heard from them. With her creator's permission Miranda was killed off in the Doctor Who book Sometime Never... by Justin Richards.

Parkin also wrote The Winning Side, the first in the Time Hunter novella series, a spin-off from Telos Publishing's line of official Doctor Who novellas, and Warlords of Utopia, the third in Mad Norwegian Press's Faction Paradox series of novels.

Parkin has a regular column, "Beige Planet Lance" in the Doctor Who fanzine Enlightenment, which is published by the Doctor Who Information Network.

Parkin has written the ashcan issue of a new comic book series entitled Ichabod created by Danish comics creator Hans Christian Vang, based upon The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, which was published in 2011.