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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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What are Letters From An Unknown Land?
31/01/2023As you look around this site you might have noticed a series of stories all labelled s ‘Letters From An Unknown Land’ and thought what are they and what is going on? Well here are some answers.
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The Palace of Crows
22/05/2024Astronio ventures into a deserted palace that was at the centre of the Cataclysm.
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The Dead Kingdom Released
15/05/2024The Dead Kingdom is out now in hardback, audio, and e-book.
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Build Worlds – Part II
16/04/2024World Building is ultimately about creating the illusion of reality and depth. To create that illusion, we need to use details, to evoke mood and tone with details, and to put points on the notional map of the world we are creating.
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Build Worlds – Part I
20/03/2024Creating the world that your story takes place in is a difficult and vital art, and one that is best approached by building it up from small details.
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Get Notes and Fix Problems
22/12/2023Getting notes and feedback is vital to making sure that your writing is great, but to get the most from them you have to know yourself as a writer, what you are trying to achieve, so that you can make sure that you solve genuine problems with solutions that fit you.
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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.
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Age of Darkness
New York Times Bestselling anthology in the Horus Heresy series
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Ahriman: Eternal
Book Four in the Ahriman Series
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Ahriman: The Sorcerer
Book Three in the Ahriman Series
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Ashes and Oaths
Part Three in the Award Winning Agent of the Throne audio drama series
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Blood and Lies
Part One in the Award Winning Agent of the Throne audio drama series
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Cypher: Lord of the Fallen
Warhammer 40,000 Novel
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Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes
A Sherlock Holmes anthology edited by George Mann
Amazon
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Grey Angel
Audio Drama set in the The Horus Heresy
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Incarnation
Second Book in The Horusian Wars Series
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Mortis
Book 5 in the global bestselling series “The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra”
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Resurrection
Book One in the The Horusian Wars Series
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Sigismund
Character novel in The Horus Heresy series
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Truth and Dreams
Part Two in the Award Winning Agent of the Throne audio drama series
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