Simon Jowett


Simon Jowett is a British author and scriptwriter.

Biography

His early work was in comics, as the writer of the James Bond stories Silent Armageddon and Shattered Helix and as a contributor to 2000AD. He left comics largely behind in the mid-1990s, when he moved into script-writing for other media. He has worked on feature-length adaptations of children's fiction and has written scripts for a number of computer games, including the best-selling Fire Warrior and the landmark game/internet serial Halcyon Sun.
Jowett's broadcast television work includes A.T.O.M., Chop Socky Chooks, Zula Patrol, Pitt & Kantrop, The Way Things Work and episodes of Bob the Builder.
He is also the author of two novels and several children's books, including movie tie-ins to Finding Nemo and Wallace and Gromit. He has also contributed short stories and novellas set in the Warhammer 40K game universe to various anthologies published by the Black Library imprint of BL Publishing, a subsidiary of Games Workshop.