David Cleden

David Cleden is an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction. As a fiction writer, David won the 2016 James White Award for his short story "Rock, Paper, Incisors" and also the Aeon Award for "When The Last Telepath Left Town" both of which have been translated into Italian and have appeared in the "Mondi Incantati" anthologies for 2016 & 2018. Subsequently, David was a first-place winner in the "Writers of the Future: Volume 35" short story competition with "Dark Equations of the Heart".

He is a Bid Director and consultant with more than 25 years experience of the public services IT sector. In addition to writing bids and successfully delivering complex projects for a wide range of commercial clients, he writes widely on a variety of business-related issues. His book, "Bid Writing for Project Managers" is a popular guide to proposal-writing success published by Routledge. David's previous book, Managing Project Uncertainty, was the first title in the Routledge series on "Advances in Project Management". He also contributed a chapter to "Advances in Project Management" edited by Darren Dalcher.

As he is quick to point out, he tries hard not to muddle up his fiction and non-fiction writing.