I wish I could say my motivation for writing short stories for three Doctor Who charity anthologies in 1999 was because I deeply supported the causes. But my views on cat neutering in Cincinnati are strangely ambivalent, and to be honest at the time I was thinking about trying to get more people to read Back From the Dead: one of the stories published featured Ace’s cat from BFD (who fortunately shared a name with the Doctor’s cat from the New Adventures), and the first thing I pitched for Walking in Eternity was an epilogue to the series.
But the Doctor Who charity anthologies were also something of a tradition, with established and fan authors alike contributing. The idea of seeing my name in the same book as some of the writers I’d become such a fan of was more than a little in my mind, and was the validation of having something published a little more professionally than on the internet.