JON D INMAN

BORN 4TH MARCH 1971 IN MALTON, NORTH YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND UNDER THE NAME OF JONATHAN DAVID INMAN.

JON WAS BROUGHT UP ON A FARM IN A REMOTE VILLAGE WHERE HE FIRST

HAD HIS EXPERIENCES OF THE PARANORMAL AT THE AGE OF FIVE, ALTHOUGH LOOKING BACK IT COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH EARLIER. SPENDING

MOST OF THIS TIME ALONE, HE WOULD FIND SOLITUDE IN READING, MAINLY ON THE SUPERNATURAL BUT ALSO ENGLISH CLASSICS SUCH AS DICKENS AND HARDY.

AT THE AGE OF 9 HE MADE HIS FIRST TV APPEARANCE ON YORKSHIRE TELEVISION FOR HAVING SOME JOKES PUBLISHED IN A PUFFIN CHILDREN ‘S BOOK CALLED; ‘THE END’.

BY THE AGE OF 13 HE WAS PUBLISHING HIS OWN SCI-FI MAGAZINE WHICH LEAD TO HIM TO APPEARING ON TV IN A MOCK UP DOCTOR WHO EPISODE, THE PRODUCER STATED HE WAS A NATURAL WHEN IT CAME TO ACTING. AFTER APPEARING IN MANY SCHOOL PLAYS JON WENT ON TO START HIS OWN BUSINESS SELLING TV RELATED TOYS TO COLLECTORS AND FURTHERED IT TO ACTUAL PROPS FROM THE SETS OF MAJOR FILMS.

BY THIS TIME AT THE AGE OF 16 HE WAS ALREADY MIXING WITH THE STARS OF THE TIME AT CONVENTIONS AND TRANSACTING LARGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY AS WELL AS APPEARING IN THE LOCAL PRESS OFTEN. AT AROUND THIS TIME JON STARTED HIS FIRST ‘REAL’ JOB AS A FIRST STAGE AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION ENGINEER, LEAVING THE TOY BUSINESS BEHIND. OTHER JOBS WOULD FOLLOW THAT INCLUDED; SALESMAN, BAKER, RESTAURANT MANAGER, BAR MANAGER,BOOKIE MANAGER AND MORE.

IN 1989 JON INTRODUCED HIS COMMUNITY TO ‘SCANDAL PRESS’, A SATIRICAL AND SARCASTIC NEWSPAPER ABOUT THE AREA, IT WAS A SUCCESS BUT BY THIS TIME HE WAS CONCENTRATING ON SERIOUS TALES OF THE UNKNOWN FOR VARIOUS MAGAZINES AND HYPNOTISM. HYPNOTISM WAS TO BE PROBABLY JON'S BIGGEST SUCCESS TO DATE AND BETWEEN THE YEARS 1991-1997 IT IS UNKNOWN HOW MANY STAGE SHOWS HE PERFORMED WITH VENUES FROM SCARBOROUGH TO WEMBLEY, LONDON. DURING THIS TIME HE ALSO HAD REGULAR RADIO SHOWS ON THE PARANORMAL WITH BOTH YORKSHIRE COAST RADIO AND YORKSHIRE DALES RADIO.

DURING A SPELL IN ROMANIA JON WROTE THE CULT CLASS IC; ‘THE MORONS GUIDE TO THE PARANORMAL’

WHICH WAS TO BECOME A HIGH SELLER AND FEATURE ON BBC NORTH RADIO STATION FOLLOWED BY AN INTERVIEW WITH JON. IN 1996 THE BOOK ‘DARKLING, I LISTEN...’ WAS PUBLISHED AS A COLLECTION OF UNUSUAL VAMPIRE TALES BY VALENTINA NIGHTINGALE AND UNDER THE TITLE OF ‘JON D INMAN’ S LIBRARY OF THE MACABRE PRESENTS’. THE BOOK HAD EXCELLENT REVIEWS FROM THE MEDIA MAINLY FOR A STORY IN IT THAT WAS ORIGINALLY WROTE BY JON D INMAN. IN 1995 JON MARRIED THE EDITOR OF A HORROR MAGAZINE IN A BLAZE OF MEDIA PUBLICITY AND HAD A DAUGHTER TO HER, BUT THE MARRIAGE ONLY LASTED 11 MONTHS. DURING THIS TIME THE COUPLE REGULARLY APPEARED ON TV SHOWS AND IN NEWSPAPERS.

JON NOW LIVES BACK IN HIS HOME TOWN OF PICKERING WITH FIANCEE

HEATHER AND CONCENTRATES WITH HIS WRITING ON FICTIONAL STORIES

AND WORKING WITH THE MEDIA (MOST RECENTLY WITH THE BBC AND ALSO

DOING A PHOTO SHOOT WITH A NUDE MODEL FOR THE PRESS), OH AND THE Re-INTRODUCTION OF SCANDAL PRESS...

JON D INMAN IS A REGISTERED Author WITH THE BRITISH LIBRARY AND

LICENSED HYPNOTIST