Hah. I know Kim Newman! It's one of the things I've learnt randomly through my LJ flist - that was the really odd guy who'd published some book was who presented us with our GCSE certs because he was the only half-way famous person my school had managed. :lol: I expect he hadn't written that then (1993), because I think he'd had about 1 short story published. We were all sooo unimpressed...