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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, and also got Stephen interviewed by the
BBC's 'Bookworm' television series.
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.
Stephen is now on the management, technical
and editorial boards for SFcrowsnest.com, the
science fiction and fantasy web site which is
currently Google PageRanked™ 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 700,000 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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