David J. Howe is a British novelist, writer, journalist, publisher, and media historian. David Howe was born in 1961 and rose to fame (In the early 80's) as the UK's premier authority as a media historian. Howe rose through the fanzine scene of the 80's, and in the early 90's began to write the first in-depth critical texts of British Television's "Doctor Who" and became notable for his in-depth commentary and close association with the show's history. He has written more than twenty titles regarding the show, and is involved with a variety of various publications, often acting as consultant, or reviewer (He’s also pretty good with horror films as well).

Howe wrote the key texts in Virgin Publishing's range, including the three "Decades" books (With collaborators Stephen James Walker and Mark Stammers), considered to be some of the most in-depth works regarding the production history of the longest science-fiction show on television. He followed this (Again with his collaborators) with individual guidebooks, which covered the individual tenures of each Doctor in turn, and were regarded as companion pieces to the other texts.

When the license to publish books regarding to the series reverted to BBC Worldwide, Howe (With Stephen James Walker) compiled his crowning achievement, the complete television companion, regarded as the most essential critical work on Doctor Who ever written.

Howe moved away from writing with BBC Worldwide, and set up his own publishing house in 2002, Telos Publishing.

Howe also wrote "Daemos Rising", an original film directed by Keith Barnfarther, and is planning to write further adventures for the screen. He now works as co-director of Telos Publishing, slowly becoming one of the premier publishers of classic and new science fiction stories.

Selected Bibliography

• Doctor Who The Sixties (hardback, co-written with Stephen James Walker & Mark Stammers, 1992, Virgin Publishing. Paperback published 1993)
• Doctor Who The Seventies (hardback, co-written with Walker and Stammers, 1994, Virgin Publishing. Paperback published 1995)
• Doctor Who The Eighties (hardback, co-written with Walker and Stammers, 1996, Virgin Publishing. Paperback published 1997)
• Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor (paperback, co-written with Walker & Stammers, 1992, Virgin Publishing)
• Doctor Who The Handbook: The Sixth Doctor (paperback, co-written with Walker & Stammers, 1993, Virgin Publishing)
• Doctor Who The Handbook: The First Doctor (paperback, co-written with Walker & Stammers, 1994, Virgin Publishing)
• Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor (paperback, co-written with Walker, 1995, Virgin Publishing)
• Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor (paperback, co-written with Walker, 1996, Virgin Publishing)
• Doctor Who The Handbook: The Second Doctor (paperback, co-written with Walker & Stammers, 1997 Virgin Publishing)
• Doctor Who The Handbook: The Seventh Doctor (paperback, co-written with Walker, 1998 Virgin Publishing)
• Doctor Who: Drabble Who (hardback, co-edited with David Wake, 1993, Beccon Publishing – collection of 100 short pieces of Doctor Who-related fiction and verse published for charity)
• Doctor Who: Timeframe – The Illustrated History (hardback, 1993, Virgin Publishing – The official 30th anniversary of Doctor Who book. Paperback published 1994)
• Doctor Who: Companions (hardback, co-written with Stammers, 1995, Virgin Publishing. Paperback published 1996)

Text and photograph coordination for Doctor Who 1996 Diary (hardback, 1995 Mallon Publishing, Australia)

• Reflections: The Fantasy Art of Stephen Bradbury (text, limp-back, 1996, Paper Tiger)
• Doctor Who TX File (text for filofax insert book, 1996, BBC Publishing)
• Doctor Who: I Am The Doctor (hardback, co-written with Jon Pertwee, 1996, Virgin Publishing – Jon Pertwee’s Doctor Who autobiography)
• Doctor Who: A Book of Monsters (hardback, 1997, BBC Publishing)
• Doctor Who: The Television Companion (paperback, co-written with Walker, 1998, BBC Publishing)
• Howe’s Transcendental Toybox: The Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who Collectibles (paperback, co-written with Arnold T Blumberg, 2000, Telos Publishing)
• The Television Companion: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who (paperback/hardback, co-written with Walker, 2003, Telos Publishing)
• Howe’s Transcendental Toybox: Second Edition: The Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who Collectibles (paperback, co-written with Arnold T Blumberg, 2003, Telos Publishing)
• Howe’s Transcendental Toybox: 2003 Update Edition (paperback, co-written with Arnold T Blumberg, 2004, Telos Publishing)