From "About the Authors" in Short Trips:
Daniel Patrick O'Mahony was born in Croydon, south London, in July 1973. He has written for small magazines on a variety of subjects, including regular book reviews for Vector: the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association. His two Doctor Who novels were Falls the Shadow (1994) and The Man in the Velvet Mask (1996). He lives in Hampshire and has delusions of grandeur.