Peter Lawrence (author)

His published work includes the Frankenstein Vigilante series of steampunk mysteries, They take place in a dystopian world, a parallel reality to today's society. Book One is titled The Incorruptibles; Book Two is titled The Fear; and Book Three is titled The Reckoning. The series is written with long-time collaborator Chris Trengove. Their latest novel is Flash Chord, a romance novel set largely in England at the time of the Profumo affair (1963), the scandal involving Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies.

Also written with Trengove is a series of horror novellas: Blood Ranch,Loom, andNight of the Dogs. Trengove and Lawrence first collaborated on It's Your Money In My Pocket, Dear, Not Mine In Yours; Engulfed In A Tide Of Filth (re-published as Up The Pictures); The Mao Tse Tung Workers Revolutionary Striptease Emporium; and the music business cult classic Full Moon.

It's Your Money, Engulfed/Up The Pictures, and Striptease Emporium are part of an ongoing series, The London Chronicles.

Writing solo, Lawrence has published Fishing For Crocodiles (2011), a fictionalized autobiography about growing up in Northern Rhodesia/Zambia. He has also written Smoke and Dust, a dramatic and meticulously researched and observed novel set in South Africa and southern Central Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Lawrence has written several children's books, such as The Princess Formerly Known As Snow White, Little Red (The Wolf's Tale) and two books about Shandy and Roly - Two Small Dogs From Africa. Shandy and Roly are illustrated by the late and legendary Takashi Masunaga.

In addition to writing books, Lawrence works in film and television as a screenwriter and story editor/producer. He has been commissioned by many American, European and Asian studios and producers, including BLT, The Walt Disney Company, Cinemedia/Overseas Film Group, Constantin Film, the Forum Media Group, the Fox Broadcasting Company, Industry Entertainment/Sony, London Weekend Television; Magder/ITT; Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment/ABC; Rialto; Roxy; and TorStar.

Lawrence has extensive credits in animation and children's entertainment, having been the story editor and showrunner on iconic TV series like ThunderCats, SilverHawks, Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates, and The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.

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Lawrence and Trengove continue to write together and separately. A fourth Frankenstein Vigilante is in the works and they are developing a live action series under option by a Hollywood major.

Lawrence also works in partnership with the Colombian animation studio, Domo Animato. He lives largely in Colombia.

• Peter Lawrence at IMDb