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.
I wonder if I left the iron on…
By day, I am a slave to the National Health Service. By evening, night and early morning I am a freelance writer. At the moment, my stuff is predominately written for the Black Library which means I largely get 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.
Published Work – As of April 2012
- Primary Instinct [short story] – available in Hammer & Bolter Issue 1, Victories of the Space Marines, and as its own ebook.
- Action & Consequence [short story] – available in Hammer & Bolter Issue 5
- Cause & Effect [short story] – available in Hammer & Bolter Issue 8
- Bitter End [short story] – available in Hammer & Bolter Issue 12
- 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.
- The Pact [short story] – available in Hammer & Bolter Issue 15
- The Cost [short story] – featured in the World of Warcraft anthology What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been, Immanion Press, 2011. Here!
- 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!
- 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 to be released by Foxspirit, August 2012. Here! (Also features an Actual Ballad – here!)
List last updated – August 2012
Just caught your name as I chanced across a Podcast Overlords…Looking forward to reading your work Gildar Rift. Keep up the great work! Thank you for the good bio. Note to self – their are like minded loonies on the loose.
Best Wishes -
Brother Richard
I am a huge fan of Warhammer40k and will certainly read your book!
Good Morning.
First off, big fan. Loved The Gildar Rift, and I’m looking forward to your future works.
I’ve set myself a new years resolution that I want to write. I love black library stuff, love the hobbie and the games, so I thought I’d try and write some stuff just for fun.
If I wanted to take that to the next stage an possibly submit my writing to black library, how would I go about that?
Any tips with writing and breaking into that circle of black library writers would be much appreciated!
Anyway, even if I don’t hear back from you, I hope you have a good 2012 and looking forward to your next book.
Regards,
Luke.
Hi Luke, thanks for the words and welcome aboard!
This is a very short response as I’m at work on my iPhone, but in the first instance you could do a lot worse than investigating the Black Library Bolthole at http://www.thebolthole.org – where other keen and aspiring BL writers hang out.
Will post more later
Right. The things I wanted to add were as follows:-
1) Keep an eye on the BL webpage for news of submissions windows and/or competitions. http://www.blacklibrary.com/Getting-Started/FAQ-Working-For-Black-Library.html
2) Write. I know that sounds utterly stupid, but write as much as you can. It’s the only way to really improve. And read. Everything. Even the stuff you think you’ll hate.
3) If you have a penchant for writing fanfiction, try entering the monthly 1,000 word ‘Read in a Rush’ competition over at the Bolthole. It’s a great way of learning to discipline yourself to a wordcount. And is fun to boot!
Many thanks for all your advice.
I’m gonna get writing!
Hey Sarah,
Just noticed your name does not appear under the authors tab on the BL website. Strange no?
Think they owe you some cake now.
Click on the ‘more’ link underneath the list…
Correction: ‘View All’ link.
Yah…. I kind of noticed that just after I wrote that comment.
Wish I hadn’t mentioned the cake now. I hate it when people say there is cake and then it turns out there isn’t any.