Connor Freff Cochran
Connor Freff Cochran, also known as Freff, is an author, correspondent, and publisher who started Conlan Press in Montara, California in 2005 to publish Peter Beagle’s work. By 2011, Conlan Press was expanding to other authors, and by 2016 Cochran’s bio described him as a multi‑talented creator and a Ringling Brothers clown college graduate.
Cochran did Galaxy Science Fiction cover art in 1975 (January and March issues) and worked as a US-based correspondent for BBC2’s Micro Live in 1984, reporting on telephony and computing under the name Freff. From the early 1990s to 2000, he wrote the “Creative Options” pieces for Keyboard magazine and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies bulletin.
He also wrote owner manuals for Alesis NanoPiano and NanoBass. While Electronic Musician praised his prose style, some reviewers noted the manuals lacked technical depth.
From 2011, Cochran served as the publisher for Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn, and he contributed to the Last Unicorn Blu-ray audio commentary. In early 2016 he was listed as publisher and executive editor of Conlan Press, a company founded to support Beagle’s work.
In 2015 Beagle sued Cochran for $52 million, accusing him of illegal gains and other harms. In 2019 a judge ruled in Beagle’s favor, ordering Cochran to pay $332,500 plus legal fees for elder abuse, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and defamation, and criticized Cochran’s promotion of Beagle’s work as untrustworthy.
On March 23, 2021, Beagle regained the rights to his works from Cochran. Cochran filed an appeal after declaring bankruptcy, but in December 2021 a California appellate court dismissed the appeal as moot.
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