PAUL Finch

Agent: Julian Friedmann

Biography: Paul read History at Goldsmiths and then embarked upon a career in the police, working the tough streets of Salford, inner Manchester. During this time, he experienced a wide range of assignments, from traffic and accident-investigation duty to anti-vandal patrol and riot control, not to mention numerous plain clothes attachments … Drugs Squad, Robbery Squad, Street Thefts, plus basic CID and 'Scenes of Crime' postings. Paul enjoyed the police and logged a large number of arrests, but after several years and various hair-raising experiences, he decided enough was enough, and moved, in 'gamekeeper to poacher fashion', into professional journalism, where he spent the next decade, concentrating mainly on crime.

Both jobs provided him with plenty of research material, and he has now sold numerous TV scripts (including three episodes of The Bill), four movie scripts, ten books and nearly 300 short stories, mostly crime, horror and fantasy, many of which have been listed in various 'Best Horror' collections for their appropriate year.

Paul is married with two children, and now works as a full-time writer. He is currently working on a Medieval werewolf feature, WAR WOLF, with Amber Entertainment, as well as his hugely popular DS Heckenburg crime novel series.

Feature film scripts:

  • WAR WOLF (Feature for Amber Entertainment)

  • THE DEVIL'S ROCK (Feature horror commissioned by Chameleon Pictures)

  • THE BELFRIES (Feature horror)

  • THE FREEZE (Feature thriller)

  • HUNTING GROUND (Feature horror commissioned by Menan Films)

  • DARK HOLLOW (Feature horror commissioned by Nimble Pictures)

  • CHARNEL HOUSE (Feature horror commissioned by Nimble Pictures)

  • CAPE WRATH (Feature horror optioned by Dean O’Toole)

  • DARK GROUND (Rewrite horror for Wild Films Ltd and UniTal UK)

  • VODYANOI (Feature horror commissioned by Archangel Films)

  • SPIRIT TRAP (Rewrite horror for Archangel Films)

  • THE GOLEM (Feature horror commissioned by Talisman Films)

  • HEART AND MIND (Thriller screenplay)

  • BACKLASH (Thriller screenplay)

Television:

  • THE BILL (2004. Episode 219. Thames TV)

  • NORA AND THE MAGIC TREE (2002. 50 X 6 ½ minute episodes of an animated TV series for children for Hogg's Back Films)

  • THE BILL (2001. 1 Episode: APPROPRIATE ACTION: Thames TV)

  • THE BILL (2000. 1 Episode: PROTECT AND SURVIVE: Thames TV)

  • MAISIEMAC: MAISIE IN THE RAINFOREST (1999. 1 Episode: Siriol Productions)

  • LITTLE HIPPO: HIPPOS AHOY (1998. 1 Episode: Siriol Productions)

  • FIX AND FOXI: A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER (1998. 1 Episode: Siriol Productions)

  • URBAN GOTHIC (2 Treatments)