Peter Morwood, Author

Peter Morwood, novelist, screenwriter and recipient of the Polish Silver Cross of Merit, was born in 1956 in Lisburn, Co.Antrim, a town near Belfast in Northern Ireland. He attended Friends' School, Lisburn, and then went on to Queen's University, Belfast, where he studied English Language and Literature, Law, and Medieval History.

While at university he was a Officer-Cadet of the Queen's University Air Squadron ( R.A.F.V.R.), but was forced to choose between academics and the RAF. The groves of academe won, and he graduated from Queen's with a B.A. (Hons.) degree in 1979. With his degree in hand, Peter took a job as an officer in H.M. Customs and Excise, a job he was utterly overjoyed to relinquish in 1986.

He has been writing for as long as he can remember about such varied subjects as tanks and knights, fighter-planes and pirates, dragons and spaceships, all of which sometimes appeared in the same story. He wrote his first novel at nights while still working for Customs and Excise, despite such minor impedimenta as being told by skeptical superiors that he would never come to anything as a writer, and should concentrate on being a good civil servant. Under the circumstances, Peter was immensely gratified when his first novel, THE HORSE LORD, was quickly accepted and published to critical acclaim in 1983.

It was soon followed by several sequels (THE DEMON LORD, THE DRAGON LORD and THE WAR LORD'S DOMAIN), resignation from the Civil Service, and marriage to fellow writer Diane Duane. While continuing to work in his particularly vivid and unsettling branch of fantasy with novels like PRINCE IVAN, FIREBIRD, THE GOLDEN HORDE, and the first two "Clan Wars" novels, GREYLADY and WIDOWMAKER, he also turned his attention to other forms of writing, particularly comics (for Epic Comics' FUSION) and screenplays (initially for animated series such as BKN Productions' THE LOST CONTINENT, Warner Brothers' BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, Walt Disney's GARGOYLES and Fox's SPIDERMAN UNLIMITED). Later he and Diane went on to work on live action film projects such as their epic miniseries of German legend, DARK KINGDOM: THE DRAGON KING, and their present joint project, the Imperial Roman-based miniseries, GAMES.

Peter's present novel-writing projects include the first in a military/political science fiction series, DEEPFLEET; the first in an historical fantasy series, BLOOD'S RUBY; and a stand-alone epic fantasy, THE CLOVEN HOOF. He is also outlining the third in his "Clan Wars" fantasy series and his fifth "Horse Lord" novel. In the works as well are screenplays for another miniseries and a feature film.