Bio
David McCandless has been a writer for twenty years. His work has appeared in over thirty magazines and newspapers in the UK and the US. They include Wired, The Guardian, Tank, and The Independent.
In 2000, he was the editor and writer of Seethru, the interactive half of the BBC2 / World Productions drama series, Attachments. The Guardian called it the “best British webzine”. It was one of the first websites to feature something called a ‘blog’. Now look what’s happened…
He started his career aged 15, writing for cult video games magazines Your Sinclair, Zero and PC Zone. By 1995, his eerie talent for video games had led to him clinching that much coveted title, UK Doom Champion. He then went on to represent his country in the world finals, unfortunately losing in the first round to a 14 year old boy from New Jersey with a moustache.
He spends some of his spare time noodling with desktop music. His self-released LP, Smoother & Faster, won Q Magazine’s StarMaker award in 1997 and was featured on Channel 5 news and the BBC World Service. He has since sold over 40 copies.
He has just released his first book, The Internet Now In Handy Book Form!, a satire of the world wide web.
(And, no, he doesn’t know why he’s writing this in the third person either. It just seems to help).
