Hello,

if you know anything about me, it's probably that I wrote a comic called Dead Boy Detectives for Vertigo - based on characters created by Neil Gaiman in Sandman (Season of Mists). This was adapted into the 2024 Netflix series, Dead Boy Detectives - which was cancelled after one series. Boo.

Previously on Wattpad, I serialised the fantasy romance novel Lilian's Spell Book. This got to Number 1 a couple of times. I self-published it, and it's available on Kindle.

I was born in Bedford, England, and grew up in Ampthill (Anglo-Saxon for 'anthill').

After university, I lived for a couple of months in Glasgow and a couple of years in Prague - my favourite city. Then I came back to England and worked in Fielders Bookshop in Wimbledon.

By this point I'd written four and a half unpublished novels, so I decided to try something different: short stories and a creative writing course. Malcolm Bradbury, who ran the course, liked my work and put four short stories in an anthology. The girlfriend of Neil Taylor, an editor at Secker and Warburg, who read those four stories in proof, told him he should publish me.

He did, bless him.

My first book, Adventures in Capitalism, was published in 1996. Since then, I have published quite a few other books, and written quite a few more.

I teach Creative Writing at the University of Southampton.

I blog at https://awritersdiary.substack.com/
You can find me on instagram @toby_litt
I'm myself on Facebook