For those of you who are Doctor Who fans, that news will come as a shock, much as it did to me this morning.

I met Craig a few times both in London and at Gallifrey conventions. We got on really well and I remember one night, at Gallifrey, sitting there in the pub at the Airtel in Van Nyus and bitching about all things Who. He had a drink in his hands and was craving a smoke (as he always was) and he had me in stitches with his stories of old Who fandom (and more recent times as well). The man knew how to tell a story, and he knew how to gossip and he loved every moment of it.

He was also an entertaining writer. I wasn’t fond of all his work. But the thing about Craig was that he was honest about his own writing and would be harsher on it than most others. Sill, he wrote novels like The Crystal Buchephalus and the Quantum Archangel which entertained me no end.

Craig, you will be sorely missed.

I am really sad today.

🙁