ABOUT THE AUTHORS

 

 

Dan Abnett

Dan Abnett lives in Kent, England. Well known for his comic work, he has written everything from the Mr. Men to the X-Men in the last decade. His work for the Black Library includes the popular comic strips Lone Wolves, Titan and Inquisitor Ascendant, the best-selling Gaunt’s Ghosts novels, and the acclaimed Inquisitor Eisenhorn trilogy.

 

Mark Brendan

Mark Brendan was immersed in his Bumper Book of Black Magic from an early age, and nowadays his writings are considered by many to be “a shame, a caution and an eldritch horror”. He lives in Yorkshire.

 

Ben Chessell

Ben lives in the near-Arctic climate of South Australia. He writes one-liners for White Wolf Publishing and Chaosium Inc. He is an avid gamer, and enjoys roleplaying and the Games Workshop game of fantasy football, Blood Bowl.

 

Brian Craig

Brian Craig is the author of the three Tales of Orfeo—Zaragoz, Plague Daemon and Storm Warriors—and The Wine of Dreams, as well as the Warhammer 40,000 novel Pawns of Chaos. He has contributed short stories to a range of anthologies, including the Dedalus Book of Femme Fatales, edited by Brian Stableford.

 

Robert Earl

Robert Earl graduated from Keele University in 1994, after which he started a career in sales. Three years later though, he’d had more than enough of that and since then he has been working, living and travelling in the Balkans and the Middle East. Robert currently lives in the UK.

 

Jonathan Green

Jonathan Green has been a freelance writer for nearly fifteen years. His work for the Black Library includes a string of short stories for Inferno! magazine and six novels. Jonathan works as a full-rime teacher in West London.

 

Darius Hinks

After a music career so disastrous it landed him in court, Darius Hinks decided a career in publishing might be safer. He secured himself a position working for the Black Library and over the last five years has written several short stories and the Warhammer background book, The Witch Hunter’s Handbook.

 

Andy Jones

Andy has had a hand in such products as Space Fleet, Man O’ War and Warhammer Quest, designed games for The Crystal Maze TV show, set up the Black Library, headed up Games Workshop’s The Lord of The Rings team (lots of essential visits to New York!) and now runs the legal and licensing team within Games Workshop.

 

William King

William King was born in Stranraer, Scotland, in 1959.

His short stories have appeared in The Year’s Best SF, Zenith, White Dwarf and Interzone. He is also the author of seven Gotrek & Felix novels, four volumes chronicling the adventures of the Space Marine warrior, Ragnar Blackmane, as well as the Warhammer 40,000 novel Farseer. He currently lives in Scotland.

 

Nick Kyme

Nick Kyme hails from Grimsby, a small town on the northeast coast of England known for its fish (a food which, ironically, he dislikes profusely). Nick moved to Nottingham in 2003 to work on White Dwarf magazine, but has since made the switch to the Black Library, where he works as an editor. He’s written several short stories and the Necromunda novel, Back from the Dead.

 

Nathan Long

Nathan Long has worked as a screenwriter for fifteen years, during which time he has had three movies made and a handful of live-action and animated TV episodes produced. He has also written three Warhammer novels featuring the Blackhearts, several award-winning short stories and the Gotrek & Felix novel Orcslayer. He lives in Hollywood.

 

Neil McIntosh

Neil McIntosh was born in Sussex in 1957. He has contributed stories for the Warhammer anthologies, White Dwarf and other magazines, and is the author of several novels.

 

Graham McNeill

Hailing from Scotland, Graham McNeill narrowly escaped a career in surveying to join Games Workshop, where he worked as a games developer for six years. In addition to seven novels of carnage and mayhem, Graham has also written a host of short stories. He lives in Nottingham, England.

 

Sandy Mitchell

Sandy Mitchell is a pseudonym of Alex Stewart, who has been working as a freelance writer for the last couple of decades. He has written science fiction and fantasy in both personae, as well as television scripts, magazine articles, comics and gaming material. Apart from both miniatures and roleplaying gaming his hobbies include the martial arts of Aikido and Iaido, rifle shooting, and playing the guitar badly.

 

Chris Pramas

Chris Pramas is an award-winning game designer whose punk-fuelled writing has infected the game industry for over a decade. He is the founder and president of Green Ronin, a leading publisher of roleplaying games. He is also the designer of the new edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.

 

Gordon Rennie

Gordon Rennie is the writer of Missionary Man and Glimmer Rats for 2000AD, Bloodquest and Kal Jerico for Warhammer Monthly, and other stories for Inferno!

 

Neil Rutledge

Neil Rutledge is a veteran of the Games Workshop universe (he still has some of his first Citadel Miniatures, purchased at eighteen pence each!). He lives in Carlisle and lectures in science education.

 

Mitchel Scanlon

Greeted with the words “Good Lord, it can’t be human!” at the occasion of his birth, Mitchel Scanlon would in time confound medical experts and religious leaders alike by mastering the intricacies of human speech and upright posture. More recently, he has embarked on a career as a writer of novels, comics and short stories. His previous credits for the Black Library include Fifteen Hours, The Loathsome Ratmen and the comics series Tales of Hellbrandt Grimm.

 

Gav Thorpe

Gav Thorpe works for Games Workshop in his capacity as Lead Background Designer, overseeing and contributing to the Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 worlds. He has a dozen or so short stories to his name and over half a dozen novels.

 

James Wallis

James Wallis started his first magazine at fourteen. Since then he has been a TV presenter, world-record holder, games designer, political firebrand, auctioneer, convention organiser and internet commentator. His proudest moment is being called “slick” by the News of the World. He lives in London, has no cats, hears everything and does not sleep.

 

Robert Waters

Robert has been an avid Games Workshop enthusiast for as long as he can remember, and has worked in the computer gaming industry for over 12 years. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and their young son. Robert is an assistant editor for Weird Tales and his fiction has appeared in Weird Tales and Nth Degree.

 

C.L. Werner

C.L. Werner was born in New York in 1973. An avid and voracious reader almost before he could walk, he began trying his hand at writing stories of his own in grade school and never quite kicked the habit. Extremely interested in bygone eras, he has been involved in both American Civil War re-enactments and Wild West stunt shows.

 

 

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