Is the Death's Head series cancelled? Multiple emails to the author and to his publishing house have gone unanswered. Those of you familiar with the series will know that
there is very little to know about David Gunn. He writes incognito and his brief bio on the back cover asks more questions than it answers.
In his last interview Mr. Gunn said that he planned a number of further installments to the series. Given the long delay and lack of news one can only speculate that the series is, at the very least, on hold. Fare thee well Sven, or are you just on vacation?
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Since Sven's gone into stasis, I have turned toward Gavin Smith's Veteran for my quota of space violence...
Veteran is so blandly written and the characters so uninteresting that I stopped reading before I hit the halfway mark.
Give me Richard Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs or Sven any day.
Gunn's agent is:
http://www.miccheetham.com/
You could email them
My email to the Mic Cheetham Agency was a slapback from their automated spam filter.
Subject title was What happened to David Gunn?
I got a spam mail slapback from their inbox within hours
Seems they don't want to answer any questions about David Gunn either.
Now isn't this interesting:
The Death's Head novels are copyrighted to Gunnsmith Ltd.
The Mic Cheetham Literary agency is David Gunn's agent.
At the same street address/offices of Mic Cheetham is another publisher; The Marsh Agency, and yet another publisher; Gunn Media.
Ali Gunn is listed as the Managing Director.
http://www.writersservices.com/agent/uk09/Mic_Cheetham.htm
http://www.writersservices.com/agent/uk09/gunn_media.htm
I think it's obvious that these 3 companies are all one and the same. I also think it's obvious where David Gunn got his pen-name from.
I'm also now starting to doubt quite seriously if the author who calls himself David Gunn is telling the truth about his background as a private military contractor.
The Mic Cheetham agency refuses to respond to inquires regarding David Gunn. Why is that I wonder?
Most inquires are only fans asking if further Death's Head novels are in the works.
I cannot fathom why the agency refuses to answer queries about David Gunn and his writings.
Unless A: One of the people at the agency wrote the novels themselves and for whatever reason has decided to write no futher books in the series.
B: They have no way to contact David Gunn, which seems unlikely.
C: David Gunn was indeed a PMC and some awful mishap has befallen him.
I think that the Mic Cheetham agency should respond to inquires about their author. Even if it's only putting up a small note on their website.
Due to the amount of time that has passed since the last Death's Head novel was published it now seems unlikely we will be getting any more. And what interest those first three novels generated has now waned so much that David Gunn will have certainly lost a lot of potential readers.
I urge all of you to email the Mic Cheetham agency (as I have now done twice with no response) and ask why they refuse to respond to inquires about one of their more popular authors.
Please do let the rest of us know if the agency doesn't reply to you within say; two weeks. I think that is ample time for them to formulate a reply.
Ok i have done some digging and the best I can discover is the director and secretary of Gunnsmith Ltd (now inactive) is one Samantha Jayne Baker who also holds positions in a number of companies one being JonCG Ltd which also has a director called Jonathan David Giles Courtenay Grimwood.
The Company JonCG is listed as an Artistic and Literary Creation company with the same company address as Gunnsmith Ltd, also Jonathan is listed as an author.
Jonathan again is a director in a number of companies including the British Science Fiction Association ltd. (previous directors have been Iain Banks and Arthur Clarke!)
Searching for Jonathan leads me to Jon Courtenay Grimwood also an author who happens to be married to one Sam Baker writer journalist and editor in chief of Red magazine and they divide their time between London and Winchester.
Jon's website alludes to travelling and growing up in various countries but doesn't mention a military career.
I would conclude that Jon Courteney Grimswood is David Gunn, given that he is married to a lady with the same name as listed on company records and Gunnsmith ltd owns the copyright to David Gunn's books. It appears that he is alive and well and he has been concentrating on a number of other works.
All the above information is freely available through company records and didn't need registration with any web page.
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