Shannon Patrick Sullivan is delighted to be returning to Sci-Fi on the Rock for its sophomore edition in 2008. Sullivan is the author of "The Dying Days" (Killick Press, 2006), a dark fantasy novel set amidst the hidden supernatural underground of modern-day St John's.
  
  Since attending the first Sci-Fi on the Rock convention, Sullivan has been a guest at the Winterset in Summer Literary Festival, where he became one of the inaugural recipients of the Festival's New Writers Fund. "The Dying Days" was also honoured as a Critic's Choice by the Canadian Book Review Annual in August 2007. Sullivan is currently preparing to begin work on the much-anticipated sequel to "The Dying Days".
  
  In the meantime, he's employed as a lecturer with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Memorial University of Newfoundland; by the time Sci-Fi on the Rock rolls around, he ought to have finally completed his long-gestating Ph.D. from MUN as well. A huge fan of the BBC's time travel TV series "Doctor Who", Sullivan is the editor of "Doctor Who: A Brief History Of Time (Travel)", one of the Internet's oldest and most extensive websites devoted to the programme. He has also helped organize the NLTA's Senior and Junior High Math Leagues, and served as a judge for the Newfoundland final of the CanWest CanSpell spelling bee. In his spare time, Sullivan wonders why he has no spare time.