John is an award winning Script Writer, Novelist, and Games Designer
John French is an award winning script writer, novelist, and games designer. He has written twelve novels over a decade long career, notably the Ahriman series and Horusian Wars trilogies set in the dystopian far future of Warhammer 40,000, and five novels in the New York Times Bestselling The Horus Heresy series, most recently with The Solar War. His other work includes cosmic horror in the Lord of Nightmares Trilogy from Fantasy Flight Publishing, and detective fiction in The Last Visitor in Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes from Titan Books (writing as Stephen Henry). In 2018 he won a Scribe Award for Best Audio with his script for the drama Agent of the Throne: Blood and Lies.
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Save Your Darlings
25/05/2022Why you should keep what you cut from your work, and how that will make you a better artist.
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Take Notes
10/10/2022You should take notes. It captures ideas and observations in a way that lasts, and lets you look at an idea with fresh eyes when you come back to the note. Taking notes makes you observe the world. It makes you better.
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Story: Growing In Stone
22/09/2022A traveller finds shelter in a house reclaimed from the dead.
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The Hollow King Arrives
02/09/2022The Hollow King, my first book set in the realms of Warhammer Age of Sigmar, is out now in hardback, ebook, and (my favourite) audio
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Story: Knives of a New Spring
28/07/2022Letters from an Unknown land is a series of stories about a world of fallen empires, magic, war, and power. Told through journal entries and letters written by travellers to their patrons, the story, place, and characters emerge piece by piece.
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Build Your Routine
05/07/2022To create, you need to build a routine. To create that routine you need to look at your time. Start small, and then build, until your routine takes the place of motivation.
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Ahriman: Eternal Out Now
02/07/2022Ahriman: Eternal is out now in hardback, audio and ebook
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I create characters, evoke worlds, and tell stories. Bellow you can find some of my work, along with links for purchasing them online.
Age of Darkness
New York Times Bestselling anthology in the Horus Heresy series
Ahriman: The Sorcerer
Book Three in the Ahriman Series
Ashes and Oaths
Part Three in the Award Winning Agent of the Throne audio drama series
Blood and Lies
Part One in the Award Winning Agent of the Throne audio drama series
Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes
A Sherlock Holmes anthology edited by George Mann
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Grey Angel
Audio Drama set in the The Horus Heresy
Incarnation
Second Book in The Horusian Wars Series
Mortis
Book 5 in the global bestselling series “The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra”
Resurrection
Book One in the The Horusian Wars Series
Sigismund
Character novel in The Horus Heresy series
Truth and Dreams
Part Two in the Award Winning Agent of the Throne audio drama series