Russell Payne

Russell Payne is an author of humour, science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, weblogs, graphic novels, comics, and films.

His notable works include Morris Telford - A Salopian Odyssey weblog for the BBC and subsequent novel, Marlowe Bidforth's Backpack Adventure, and the Prism award-winning American Spoon Indigo.

Well known for using a staggering number of pseudonyms, he argues that this helps keep his work fresh, ensures the writing stands on its own merit rather than his reputation and "irritates my publicist so much that it's become a self-destructive habit I can't give up". He is also the co-founder along with Darrell Till of the media production company Tiny Lapel.

Pen-names include - Morris Telford, Jim Templeton, Marlowe Bidforth, Raymond Biddle and Charlie Sheen.

He lives and works near Blackpool, Lancashire, and is currently working on a comicbook project called "Randomers" with artist John Watson and a screenplay with Happy Madison productions.