The Sand Witch

Tommy Donbavand was born in 1966 in Liverpool, England. He held numerous jobs during his lifetime including a clown, a holiday entertainer, and working in theatre productions as a writer, producer, and director. His plays Hey Diddle Diddle and Rumplestiltskin were performed throughout the United Kingdom. He started writing children's books in 2006 with the Too Ghoul for School series written under the name B. Strange. He wrote more than 90 children's books including the Scream Street series as well as the comic strip The Beano. In March 2016, he was diagnosed with stage four, inoperable throat cancer and started a blog, Tommy V Cancer which documented his battle with the disease. He adapted the blog posts and collected them in the book Tommy v Cancer: One Man's Battle Against the Big C. He died from cancer on May 14, 2019 at the age of 53.

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