— About Justin
Stories usually start for me with a question: what if?
What if a light in the sky was not just a star? What if an old spacecraft remembered more than its passengers did? What if a tiny creature who could barely say a word carried a history nobody else remembered?
That way of thinking became Nebula and the Glimmernauts.
I was born in Margate on the Kent coast and later moved to the North East of England, where I am now based in Hartlepool. I have always been drawn to science fact, science fiction, technology and the small details that make an imagined world feel believable.
Creating Nebula pushed me far beyond simply writing a manuscript. I found myself thinking about character silhouettes, continuity, page turns, colour, illustration, scene order, book layout, digital publishing, trailers, web presentation and all the dozens of decisions hidden behind a finished book.
That process became part of the idea behind Starbridge Media.
- Idea
- Story
- World
- Book
- Starbridge
I do not believe every story should be pushed through the same template.
01 The details
The small things that make a world believable.
I have always been interested in the point where imagination and technology meet. I love the real wonder of space just as much as fictional worlds, and that combination has shaped the way I create stories.
When I began developing Nebula and the Glimmernauts, it quickly became much more than writing a manuscript. Characters needed identities. Worlds needed rules. Illustrations had to remain consistent. Pages had to work visually as well as narratively. A trailer required a different kind of storytelling again. Publishing introduced another whole layer.
I am particularly interested in the details that make an imaginary world feel believable: the shape of a spacecraft, the colour of a character’s equipment, why an object appears in one scene, what happens three chapters later and whether those two moments still agree.
02 Revision
Sometimes the best decision is not adding something new.
I also believe revision is part of creativity. Sometimes the best decision is not adding something new but recognising that an earlier idea can be made stronger.
Some books may need careful manuscript work and clean design. Others may need character development, storyboards, illustration planning, trailers or an entire visual world built around them. What matters is that the finished project still feels like the story it set out to be — only clearer, stronger and ready to be seen.
Starbridge is being developed around that same approach: understanding the individual story first, then deciding what it genuinely needs rather than forcing it into a fixed package.
Founded by a storyteller.
Starbridge Media grew out of the hands-on process of building Nebula and the Glimmernauts. Its purpose is a studio built around imaginative storytelling.