Tommy Donbavand has had a varied career which has seen him working as a clown, a holiday camp entertainer and a performer in Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story in London's West End. He has also run acting and writing classes, written, produced and directed a number of theatre productions, and written a series of non-fiction books in his Quick Fixes for Bored Kids series.

In 2006, Tommy began writing as B. Strange for the Too Ghoul For School book series, published by Egmont. This led to his own series - Scream Street - being picked up by Walker Books. The first in this series of thirteen novels - Scream Street: Fang of the Vampire - was published in October 2008.