About

Well, it’s high noon SOMEWHERE in the world…

I’m an undercover agent for the FBI and have my own helicopter in the back yard. I know seventeen different variations of martial arts, am a fully paid-up member of the grammar police, can kill a man with a carefully directed stare and speak forty nine languages.

Actually, that may be a slight exaggeration. One of those statements may be true.

Wish it was the one about the helicopter, though.

By day, I am a slave to the National Health Service. By evening, night and early morning I am a freelance writer. Much of my back-library was predominately written for the Black Library which means I largely got to write about super-human, 7ft tall, heavily armoured killing machines with BIG guns, bigger swords and a collective mental age of about 15. It probably speaks volumes about me that this suits my personality down to the ground.

I also have a life-long obsession with Doc Holliday and the OK Corral. I can’t help it. That’s just the way it is, OK? Hah, see what I did there?*

* I won’t do it again.

Published Work – As of September 2023

• • Primary Instinct [short story] – available in Victories of the Space Marines, and as its own ebook.
  • Action & Consequence [short story] – available as an ebook.
  • Cause & Effect [short story] – available as an ebook.
  • Bitter End [short story] – available as an ebook.
  • Accursed Eternity [novella] – available as an ebook and also in May 2012 as part of the Architect of Fate anthology.
  • The Gildar Rift [novel] – December 2011. Here! Also available as an ebook. Also available as French edition here.
  • The Pact [short story] – available as an ebook.
  • The Cost [short story] – featured in the World of Warcraft anthology What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been, Immanion Press, 2011. Sadly no longer available 😦
  • Bloodraven [short story] – featuring in the Age of Legend anthology, released January 2012. Also available as an ebook.
  • Reaper [short story] – one of two stories in the Black Library Live! 2012 chapbook. No longer available. This has now been re-released as a downloadable ebook, here!
  • Blood Blessing [short story] – downloadable ‘eShort’ available as part of the Black Library 15th Birthday Celebrations. Here!
  • Valkia the Bloody [novel] – released July 2012. Here! Also available in French and German editions!
  • My first four short stories also feature in the Best of Hammer & Bolter Volume 1 – released July 2012. Here!
  • The Ballad of Gilrain[short story] – part of the ‘Tales of the Nun & Dragon’ anthology released by Fox Spirit, August 2012. Here! (Also features an Actual Ballad – here!)
  • Blood Bound [novella] – published in ebook and pretty tree version by Fox Spirit, May 2013. Here!
  • Two more short stories feature in the Best of Hammer & Bolter Volume 2 – released July 2013. Here!
  • Skin Deep  [1,000 word short story as part of the ‘Angels of Death’ series – September 2013] – September 2013. Here!
  • Bitter End [short story] – re-published as part of the There is Only War Anthology – released December 2013. Here!
  • The Tyrant’s Champion [short story] – available as part of the ‘Digital Mondays’ series at the Black Library webpage. Here!
  • Heirs of the Demon King: Uprising [novel] – released July 2014 by Abaddon Books. Here! Also available as non-tree edition.
  • Harbinger [short story] – first short story in the Black Library’s Warhammer Week – July 2014. Here!
  • Portents [novel] – released… at some point in 2015. I completely forget when, because I wasn’t paying attention. Anyway, it’s here!
  • Things [short story] – part of the Fox Pockets collection ‘Things in the Dark’ – May 2016. Here!
  • Cadenza [short story] – part of the Alternative Realities collection ‘Summer’s End’ – December 2016. Here!
  • Gilrain and the Minotaur [short story] – part of the ‘Tales of the Mouse & Minotaur’ anthology released by Fox Spirit, 2017. Here!
  • Champions of Chaos [omnibus] – includes all the Valkia stories and has the added bonus of containing novels by Ben Counter and Darius Hinks – April 2018. Here!
  • Proving Ground  [short story] – part of the Warcry anthology – 2019. Here!
  • Heart of the Fallen [short story] – a Warcry stand-alone tale – 2019. Here!
  • Awake [short story] – part of the Deathwatch: The Long Vigil anthology – 2020. Here!
  • Wild West Exodus: Lazarus  – a novel set in the WWX universe – 2022. Here!
  • First Impressions [short story] – a short story set in the game world of Twilight Imperium – 2022. Here!
  • Direct Orders – an Ogryn short story based on the game Darktide – 2022. Here!
  • Part of the writing/narrative team for the video game Darktide – 2022. Here!
  • Wastelanders: Star-Lord – a Marvel prose novel based on the podcast of the same name – 2023. Here!
  • Script contribution for Extra Histories 2-part series on the OK Corral. Part one here and part two here!

Wild West Exodus Character Vignettes

• The Storyteller – Broad Arrow Jack.
• Harvest – Countess Augusta Byron
• A Gentleman’s Disagreement – Wyatt Earp/Doc Holliday
• Dead Man’s Hand – Wild Bill Hickok
• Seeking Guidance – Walks Looking
• The Race – Rani Nimue
• And Then There Was One – Armstrong Custer
• Justifiable – Johnny Ringo
• Apology – Doc Holliday
• Quick Drop, Sudden Stop – Judge Kingsley Stern
• On the Rocks – Calamity Jane
• The Deadline – Bass Reeves
• Best Foot Forward – Willa Shaw
• The Emissary  – Nakano Gozen/Jesse James

Dystopian Wars Tales

• Chalk and Cheese – a story of the Twenty Minuters

Mythos Tales

• Lucky Charm – a story of Chester Barreman, of the Path of Chronozon
• Antigonish – a tale of the Priory

Overwatch Character Stories

• Dragon of the South Wind – Hanzo
• Light and Shadow – Hanzo/Genji
• Squared Away – Brigitte/Reinhardt
• Reboot – Orisa/Efi
• Doctor/Patient Confidentiality – Mercy/Genji
• Redemption – Hanzo
• Allegro – Winston/D-Va
• A Perfect Moment – Widowmaker
• Man Down – Ana/Reaper
• Seeking Purpose – Reinhardt/Soldier:76
• Respect Your Elders – Soldier:76/Tracer
• Perspective – Genji/Zenyatta
• Die, Die, Die – Reaper
• Bargains – McCree

Bonus DLC

• Thirty Shots, Thirty Seconds – fictional account of the Gunfight at the OK Corral, incorporating y’know. Actual Facts.

List last updated – 1st September 2023