British author and editor Ian Whates is now represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency. Whates started his career in the 1980s, publishing four stories in several small press magazines, but then stopping. Earlier this decade, he decided to get back to it, and sold 25 stories in two years.
In 2006, Whates established the small press publisher NewCon Press, which has already published several well-regarded anthologies. As a writer, Whates was a finalist for the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) award for his story “The Gift of Joy”, but lost the award to Ken MacLeod’s “Lighting Out”, which Whates had published in one of his own anthologies.
He is the Overseas Regional Director of SFWA and a director of BSFA.
Jarrold says that Whates “has recently completed his debut novel, an urban fantasy with hefty steampunk and SF overtones entitled City of Dreams and Nightmare, and he is currently busy organizing the SF convetion NewCon 4.” He talks about Whates at greater length in this post.