short story collections, Short Trips, and stories and novellas for their Bernice Summerfield and Iris Wildthyme series. He has been nominated twice for the Aurealis Award (winning once) and once for the Ditmar Award. His other novel work includes Mediasphere (2015), a Blake's 7 novel co-written with Orman, and The Prisoners Dilemma (2005), a novel based on Patrick McGoohan's series The Prisoner, co-written with his friend Rupert Booth and featuring an introduction by J. Michael Straczynski. Blum has also written and directed a number of short films, including Audition For Murder, a tribute to the Australian adventure-spoof series Danger 5 which was approved by the show's producers. In 2003 and 2005, he edited two no-budget, Doctor Who "inspired" indie shorts for Australian fan Andrew Merkelbach, The Curse of the Del Garria and Red. The films each received a single (separate) cinema screening at the same multiplex cinema local to their director, but neither is available to purchase or view. Blum also wrote several drafts of the Doctor Who spinoff BBV production Zygon (2007) but asked for his name to be removed from the credits. He also assistant-directed and edited Kyla Ward's short horror-comedy Bad Reception, as shown at the A Night of Horror International Film Festival, and directed various other video clips constructed around Ward's poetry. External links Half-a-Dozen Lemmings Productions website (Jon's U.S.-based fan-made video production team) 1972 births American science fiction writers 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American male writers Living people University of Maryland, College Park alumni 21st-century American novelists 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights American male novelists American male dramatists and playwrights Writers of Doctor Who novels 21st-century American male writers