From "About the Author" in Instruments of Darkness:

Gary Russell has spent the last ten years of his life seemingly devoted to this one cheerful old TV show.  He edited Doctor Who Magazine for Panini for a few years, and wrote some of his comic Sip adventures therein, has written six original novels for Virgin and BBC Books, and penned the novelisation of the 1996 TV movie for BBC Books.  With his mate Philip Segal, he co-authored Regeneration, The Making of... book about the same TV movie for HarperCollins.  He's also written forty comic strips for Radio Times, had a number of fingers in the over-egged pudding that was the 'Destiny of the Doctors' PC game and co-produced nearly forty original audio dramas for Big Finish.

At other points during his life, he's been an actor, worked in various publicity departments of the BBC and spent a small amount of time working on magazines about topics as diverse as PlayStations and television soap operas.  He's written and edited comics for Marvel Comics, and authored books about Bernice Summerfield, The Simpsons, Frasier and the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.

His unfulfilled ambitions are to write a Stargate SG1 script, a James Bond short story, a Star Wars novel and, most of all, The Fantastic Four.

Life before he hit thirty seems just a blur now.  Life beyond forty is now too close for comfort (the number forty seems to have cropped up a lot in this waffle) but seems to involve cats, a lawyer and finally doing some gardening.  Yeah, right...