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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 over twenty books over a decade-long career, notably the Ahriman series set in the dystopian far future of Warhammer 40,000, and six novels in the New York Times Bestselling The Horus Heresy series, most recently The Solar War and Mortis. 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). He has been a series writer for three animated TV shows and written the scripts for over thirty produced episodes. In the realm of video games, he has worked as a story designer and writer on multiple titles, including Darktide. 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?

31/01/2023

As 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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Story: The Sound of Bells

26/02/2025

Our correspondent is on the trail of a member of the royal family who were responsible for the cataclysm that changed the world.

Story: The Tower of Quills

26/11/2024

A letter was recovered from a derelict Tower of the Cycle in the Northern Border Forests. There were no signs of what became of its inhabitants. What happened to them?

Track of Words Interview

30/09/2024

After eight years, and a lot of words written, I return to Track of Words to talk about how that time has gone, and mark the the site's 2,000th post. The interview went long, and we get into writing the big moments in big stories, collaboration, the wonder of audio, and a lot more.