E.G. Wolverson grew up in a mining town in South Yorkshire. In 2001 he moved to the East Riding to read LLB Law with Philosophy at the University of Hull. He now practises as a Chartered Legal Executive locally.
Wolverson has harboured a love for writing, and particularly for writing fiction, since a very young age. This first became apparent to his flabbergasted parents when, at the tender age of five, his teacher invited them into school to discuss his use of colourful language in a short story that he'd written about a band of outlaws. 'I'm not being rude,' the young scribbler argued. 'That's how they talk.' He still relies on the same old argument today.
In his teens, Wolverson wrote a number of screenplays which he and his friends promptly turned into dreadful, CSO-driven movies in his school's disproportionately sophisticated 'Media Studies' room. On the back of these movies, in 1997 he co-wrote (and much to his adult embarrassment, starred in) a film funded by the local council to highlight the dearth of facilities for young people in his town. As many pointed out at the time, the film actually cost more money to make than it would have done to improve facilities, but it did at least allow Wolverson to share a memorable scene in Leeds Magistrates' Court with an actor who'd recently sent Steve McDonald to prison in "Corrie" (and who, as it happens, was playing the Judge who sentences Wolverson's character in the film).
With the prospect of having to work for a living looming large, Wolverson began to take writing seriously shortly after graduating from university in 2004. He even read a book about it. His first draft of "The Tally" was written over several day-sleeping months working in a Hull nightclub's cloakroom (between the busy bit at the beginning, when clubbers dropped off their coats, and the busy bit at the end, when he had to tell clubbers that he'd lost them).
In 2006, Wolverson launched the unofficial "Doctor Who" website "The History of the Doctor", which he then edited for five years. During this time he contributed the better part of a thousand reviews and articles, which is sadder than it probably sounds.
Wolverson's next project is an anthology of morality tales for children, tentatively entitled "When and How to Cry Wolf". These are currently being vetted by his receptive daughter and sceptical wife.
