From "About the Author" in Escape Velocity:

COLIN BRAKE is 38 years old and still not very tall.  He spent a number of years as a Script Editor lurking in the BBC Drama Department working on programmes such as EastEnders and Trainer.  He had high hopes of being Andrew Cartmel's successor on Doctor Who but in 1989, in an act of desperation, the BBC thwarted this ambition by cancelling the series.

As a freelance television writer Colin has written scripts for EastEnders, Bugs, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Doctors and Family Affairs and wrote the celebratory book EastEnders - the First 10 Years.  He contributed a short story to Virgin Publishings' Decalog 3 but this is his first novel.

Colin lives with his wife Kerry in Didcot, Oxfordshire, along with his two small children Cefn and Kassia and far too many books.