ABOUT DAVE
Biography
Born in West London, Dave Sivers left school at 16 to start a successful Civil Service career, which took him to such far-flung places as Newport, Rhode Island, Northern Norway and Sutton Coldfield. He has moonlighted as a bookmaker's clerk, a nightclub bouncer and a freelance writer and also gained a First Class Honours degree from the Open University. Since taking early retirement, he divides his time between writing and a number of public service roles.
Dave has been writing ever since he knew how to hold a pen. He started and ran a school newspaper at primary school and wrote features and stories for his grammar school’s magazine. His first piece of published work was a letter in The Economist.
He has gone on to obtain writing success with magazine fiction (writing for women’s magazines as Melanie Blake), short story competitions, and freelance journalism. He has written articles for a wide range of publications, including a series on True Crime in Buckinghamshire for The Four Shires magazine, and he has regular columns in two newspapers, The Bucks Herald and The Leighton Buzzard Observer. He has won competition prizes and was shortlisted for a Writers’ News short story competition.
Dave has written extensively for the stage, including successful collaborations on two comedy plays - Recipe for Disaster and Dancing on the Forecourt - and has worked with a partner on TV game show formats and sketch material, selling material at home and abroad. He co-wrote the pilot for a sitcom, Mann's World, which progressed to the latter stages of BBC's Fresh Talent Competition. He also runs creative writing workshops and courses.
Dave's “crime fantasy” novel, A Sorcerer Slain, featuring the Personal Inquisitor Lowmar Dashiel, was published as an e-Book Book in August 2011, and a sequel, Inquisitor Royal, followed in 2012. Further titles in the series are planned.
Dave also writes more mainstream crime fiction, including the short stories regularly published on this website.
Dave moved to Hemel Hempstead when he married his wife, Chris, and the couple now live in a small village in Buckinghamshire where they are involved in a number of local activities. Dave is a school governor, an occasional campaigner on local issues, and a regular Master of Ceremonies at the last four village fetes.
His other interests include travel, watching his beloved football team, Queen’s Park Rangers, working his allotment, playing guitar, local theatre (writing, directing and appearing), listening to music, cinema, theatre and walking in the Chilterns.
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