In April 2014, I made contact with David Richardson – ostensibly to ask if the subscriber bonus short story I’d written for him the previous June had been recorded, but in truth to remind him that he’d told me I could pitch for a Companion Chronicle. He asked for my ideas for a Susan and First Doctor story, and I said I’d pull a few together: almost immediately, however, I got another email, from somebody I didn’t know: Michael Stevens.
Michael introduced himself as a commissioning editor who had been working at Audio Go when they produced the audiobook of my New Series Adventure, The Many Hands. Big Finish had asked Michael to produce a new series of Short Trips, and David Richardson – perhaps because I was still fresh in his mind – had suggested I might be interested in writing one or two of them.