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Night of the Necromancer

It was only a year ago that I was writing this...



It came out back in April but it feels like an age since I first put pen to paper. But then a lot has happened in the time since...

Howl of the Werewolf is here!

These arrived in the post this week. Colour me pleased.

Black Library invades Forbidden Planet

I was fortunate enough to attend Thursday night's Black Library Invasion event at Forbidden Planet, where Dan Abnett, Nik Vincent, Graham McNeill, Nick Kyme and Sandy Mitchell were all signing the new Sabbat Worlds anthology edited by Dan the Man himself.

As well as getting my pre-official-release (or whatever) copy defaced by all and sundry, I also got to spend some time chatting to the guys (and gal), James Swallow among them. The hard core then retired to the Phoenix Club for beers (ginger in some cases) and stories about the Ultramarines movie and writing for Doctor Who.

So, all in all, a great night, that's spurred me on to keep plugging away at a couple of projects and left me looking forward to Games Day 2010 in two weeks' time.

You can see somebody else's photos of the event here.

To the Moon and back

Well, it's been a while but I'm back online. (To be honest I've never really been off-line, it's just that I've been a tad busy and my form of internet access didn't lend itself to regular blog-updatage.)

So, here are a few updates for you...


First of all, as of 12.30am Pax Britannia: Dark Side is finished! My editor likes what he's seen so far (which is always a good sign) so I'm hoping he'll like the rest of it too. I now just need to write the accompanying short story - in three days!

Secondly, Howl of the Werewolf's been out for about a week in the new Wizard edition. This contains the Fighting Fantasy adventure you know and love along with three pre-generated playable characters (Johann Ironarm, Wolfrick of Pritzbad and Sabine Greypelt) and a preview of Trial of Champions.







Thirdly, a new horror short story anthology is coming out this Halloween and I've got a little something in it. It's unlike anything I've ever written before and I should warn those blog-followers of a sensitive disposition (and the more youthful among you) that it should definitely come with an 18 rating. You have been warned.





Lastly, I stumbled across this website the other day. And something tells me the guys in charge quite like my Pax Britannia books...

Until next time (which won't be as long as last time)...

Happy Birthday, Balthazar Sturm!

Did you know it's Balthazar Sturm's birthday today? Crazy as it may sound, I didn't. Apparently the star (or should that be 'villain'?) of Stormslayer is 28 years old today. So, Happy Birthday, old chap.

It's also (about) a year since Stormslayer was published. (My, but doesn't time fly?)




If you've not read the book yet - and if you're a fan of Fighting Fantasy, or my work, you really should - you can pick up a copy here.

Hammer and Bolter (a.k.a. Inferno! reborn)

Many moons ago I used to write for Black Library's bi-monthly anthology magazine Inferno! It was a great publication, showcasing new talent, publishing new stories connected with established characters, one-off comic strips and prequels (or sometimes extended epilogues) to new novels.

I contributed some thirteen short stories to the mag during its all-too-short seven year existence, mainly concerning the Kislevite mercenary Torben Badenov and the Necromundan bounty hunter Nathan Creed*, and I dreamt of the day when a whole edition would be given over to one of my creations (as had happened with Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts and Graham McNeill's Ultramarine Uriel Ventris). When it ceased publication, it was a sad day indeed...

So it is very exciting to be able to share the news with you now that Inferno! is being reincarnated, this time as a new download-only short fiction magazine called Hammer and Bolter. The logo looks like this:

I've known about this for a while now but, as duly requested, have kept it under my hat. But now the information is in the public domain I can plug away to my heart's content. There's not actually anything of mine in the new mag - at least not yet - but if it's anything like Inferno! used to be, I urge you now to subscribe. And it only costs £2.50 a month. That's less than a pint where I come from!

So, watch this space...

* Somebody once complained that I was so vain as to name Nathan Creed after myself, the similarities with the name Jonathan Green being so obvious. Well obvious to all but me at the time. The Creed part of the name came from James Herbert's novel of the same name and I just thought the name Nathan sounded quite cool at the time. Perhaps it was a subconscious referencing of my own name, but it certainly wasn't a conscious one.