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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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