Hello, my name is Paul Dean. I'm a freelance writer and journalist based in south London and this is my semi-personal blog. You might've seen my beard on the board game show Shut Up & Sit Down, as featured on Penny Arcade, or you may have read my words splashed across a magazine, website or even broadsheet newspaper somewhere. I'm also the writer on the excellent indie game Maia.

For more about me, including a pseudo-CV and background, click here. Email me at paullicino at gmail.com if you need writing, editing, screenwriting, copywriting or any of those other word-based services. I also have experience as a broadcaster, because I'm pretty neat like that.

I occasionally Tweet here. I occasionally upload photographs here.

I'm interested in information theory, feminism, science fiction, technology, philosophy (which I studied), games of all types and how the internet changes our culture and our media.

My heroes are people like Kurt Vonnegut, Ursula Le Guin, Anne Frank, Alan Moore and Carl Sagan.