Connor Freff Cochran
author, correspondent, and publisher
Connor Freff Cochran (also mononymously Freff) is an author, correspondent, and publisher as a founder of Conlan Press.
Career
Cochran originally founded the publishing house Conlan Press in Montara, California in 2005 to market and publish the works of Peter Beagle; in 2011, it was expanding to additional authors. By 2016, Cochran's self-published bio at Conlan Press also listed him as "an award-winning writer, artist, musician, producer, and performer [...] comic book writer-artist [...] and a graduate of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College".
Creative work
Credited as Freff, Cochran designed the cover art for Galaxy Science Fiction's January and March 1975 issues.
Non-fiction
In 1984, Cochran was a US-based correspondent for BBC2's TV series Micro Live (credited as "Freff"), reporting on telephony and computing in the United States. By 1993 and through at least 2000, Cochran wrote opinion pieces in a series called Creative Options; entrants were published in Keyboard magazine and the bulletin of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. Cochran wrote the owner's manuals for Alesis' NanoPiano and NanoBass, and while the style of their prose was praised in 1998 by Electronic Musician, they were also found lacking in a technical sense.
Peter S. Beagle
By 2011, Cochran was the publisher for Peter S. Beagle, author of the 1968 novel The Last Unicorn. Cochran himself was featured on the audio commentary for The Last Unicorn Blu-ray, noted for "repeatedly plugging of a Last Unicorn comic". In early 2016, Cochran was listed as a publisher and executive editor for Conlan Press, a publishing house he founded that described itself as "launched in 2005 as a way to help author Peter S. Beagle".
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