Nev Fountain

Nev Fountain is an English author who has written for Doctor Who in multiple media.

Doctor Who
Fountain has written three Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories, as well as a Bernice Summerfield short story and two Doctor Who short stories. He has written several comic strips for Doctor Who Magazine and Doctor Who Adventures. Fountain is also an occasional contributing writer of nonfiction to Doctor Who Magazine, and has contributed to supplemental material on 2|entertain Doctor Who DVD releases.

Fountain was a writer and occasional actor in the sketch comedy series Dead Ringers, which often parodied Doctor Who, in both its radio and television incarnations.

The Mervyn Stone Mysteries
Fountain is a mystery novelist, writing The Mervyn Stone Mysteries for Big Finish Books. Written from the viewpoint of the fictional Mervyn Stone, a struggling 1980s scifi television writer with a tendency to end up as a reluctant detective, the series pokes fun at the worlds and interations behind the scenes and among the fandom of things like Doctor Who.

In support of the novels, Big Finish launched a dedicated website as well as an in-universe podcast miniseries revealing some of the "real" back-story of the cult series Vixens from the Void. The podcast features Fountain, Nicholas Briggs, and Nicola Bryant, and the seven episodes make up a self-contained murder mystery.

Fountain also writes a Twitter feed in-character as Stone; from 1st April through 24th April 2011 he posted The Pen Is Mightier Than the Nerd, an entire murder mystery in real-time as Stone. Fountain posted the conclusion live from on-stage at the Act III scifi convention while, in the story, Stone was announcing the conclusion on Twitter from on-stage at the same convention.

Other work
Outside of the Doctor Who universe, Fountain has been a frequent contributing writer to a wide variety of radio and television programs since the mid-1990s, often joined by his longtime collaborator Tom Jamieson.

Fountain has collaborated with Nicola Bryant on several occasions, including a December 2010 episode of Scoop. Bryant posed for the cover of the Mervyn Stone novel Geek Tragedy.

Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories

 * Omega
 * The Kingmaker
 * Peri and the Piscon Paradox

Short Trips

 * Short Trips: Past Tense - The Man Who Wouldn't Give Up
 * Short Trips: A Day in the Life - The Five O'Clock Shadow

Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series

 * Beedlemania

Doctor Who Magazine comic strip stories

 * The Green-Eyed Monster
 * The Warkeeper's Crown

Doctor Who Adventures comic strip stories

 * The Man in the Moon
 * Store Wars

Other

 * Now, Get Out of That