Russel D McLean is the author of several crime novels and a boatload of short stories. His most recent novel was the darkly humorous Ed’s Dead (Saraband, 2017). He is also a freelance development editor, working for several publishers, and does editorial reports through Jericho Writers. He has taught masterclasses on creative writing for the crime fiction and forensic course at the University of Dundee, as well as at various festivals such as Bloody Scotland. In 2018 he participated in the Write4Film course from the Scottish Film Talent Network, and since then, his dark pilot script, SHADOWLANDS, has placed in several competitions including as a finalist in the Studio21 pilot competition and semi-finalist the FilmarketHub Pilot competition. He is currently working on a new novel.