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Favourite New Things 2014
New Year retrospectives seem to be either month-by-month, minute-by-minute accounts of the previous 12 months, or lists. You know the sort of things: 'January saw the worst outbreak of Twitter...
View ArticleAhriman Series - Order of Stories
If you are tracking the Ahriman series (for Warhammer 40,000), and wondering how the novels, short stories and audios fit together, here is the running order:All is Dust (short story) -...
View ArticleHow I Write a Book
I finished the first draft of a book yesterday. A first draft is never the end, but for me it has always been something of an emotional moment. There is still a lot of work to do, but all of the...
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Jurassic Coast
Taking some time out on the South Coast of England, walking the green land, swimming in super-cold water, and reading random books (more of that next time). Not been chased by Velociraptors yet, but...
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There is something deeply inspiring about this. Maybe it speaks to my Englishman's hunger for desolate places.
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The coffee of heresy...
2016 began yesterday, but time and energy are lagging. It's raining, the sky is grey and all of the things that need doing don't need doing yet. The only answer to such such seasonal sludge is coffee...
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The algebra of Lego
Time off with family + a large box of Lego circa 1988 + gifts of more Lego = space ships + strange bands of heroes.
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Books aren't born from neat plans
They are born in heaps of scrawled notes, and random ideas jotted down at 2am, and barely legible sketches of places that don't exist.
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Nurglings.
It shouldn't come as a surprise (given some of the books I write) that I love painting small metal and plastic miniatures of things that don't exist. This is the latest batch, a cluster of tiny plague...
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The Shadow of RPGs
This wonderful slice of darkness turned up recently, and sparked equal excitement and nostalgia in me. Shadow of the Demon Lord is a traditional, pen-and-paper RPG (roleplay game, like Dungeons and...
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First steps made long ago
I was reminded recently that this ancient relic contains my first published work: Necromunda Magazine, Issue - 12, 2002. It was a small run, irregular mag and I did some fiction for an article. It was...
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Writing Fuel
I love coffee. If there was a ecological disaster and it disappeared I don't know what I would do. True, I might get more and better sleep, but fewer words would get written, and I would be decidedly...
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Quinjet assembled
The recent obsession with Lego construction continues. I am increasingly in awe of these kits - just beautiful, and so much fun to put together.
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The Joy of Inq28
If your not that fussed about small painted figures, or distopian sci-fantasy, look away now.Over the last few years a creative movement has sprung up amongst miniature converters and painters....
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Reference book pile
Behold the reference book pile (or should that be heap) next to my keyboard.I love this part of a new project: finding all the bits of lore I want to highlight, and digging out all of the ideas and...
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Exiled Assassin
More miniature painting from the dark fringes of Warhammer 40,000. Behold, the Exiled Assassin bearing a book of penance-kills on his back. This model is very much inspired by the art of John Blanche,...
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Interview with the Imperial Truth
I did an interview with The Imperial Truth podcast, and you can listen to it now.Click the link and you can hear me talk about working on the Horus Heresy novels, and get some behind the scenes...
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The First Praetorian of Dorn
Print copies of Praetorian of Dorn arrived ahead of its August releaseThis is not a small book. I know I should know that, because I wrote it, but there is something about a thick block of printed and...
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Interviews by the Hundred Weight...
Well not actually by the hundred weight. For starters I don't think you can weigh interviews... can you? Anyways, I have done a lot of interviews recently about writing, and books new and old.Here is...
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Alpha to Omega
Three years ago I pitched a crazy idea of a Horus Heresy book. Now it's here, printed and in readers hands. At the moment I can name ever of person who has read it. That's about to change...Endings and...
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