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John French is an award winning script writer, novelist, and games designer, known for his intricate world building, cerebral plots, and psychologically deep characters. He has written over twenty books over a decades-long career.

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31st December 2025

Dropsite Massacre Wins Black Library Book of the Year

Dropsite Massacre was the Black Library Book of 2025 as voted for by readers

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9th November 2025

Dropsite Massacre Released in Hardback and Audio

The Dropsite Massacre, a brand new novel in The Horus Heresy series is out now in hardback and audio.

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30th September 2024

Track of Words Interview

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 int...

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15th May 2024

The Dead Kingdom Released

The Dead Kingdom is out now in hardback, audio, and e-book.

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15th December 2023

Ahriman: Undying and The Dead Kingdom Announced

Ahriman: Undying, the fifth book in the Ahriman series, and The Dead Kingdom, the second Cado Ezechiar book have been announced.

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23rd March 2023

Agent of Weird Interview

I talk writer-to-writer with Alec Worley about craft, getting published and staying focused, as well as revealing my new creator-owned fantasy project 'Lette...

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2nd September 2022

The Hollow King Arrives

The Hollow King, my first book set in the realms of Warhammer Age of Sigmar, is out now in hardback, ebook, and (my favourite) audio

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2nd July 2022

Ahriman: Eternal Out Now

Ahriman: Eternal is out now in hardback, audio and ebook

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25th May 2022

Save Your Darlings

Why you should keep what you cut from your work, and how that will make you a better artist.

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8th September 2021

Ahriman: Sorcerer Audiobook Out Now

The audiobook of Ahriman: Sorcerer is out now on Audible

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2nd May 2018

1,000,000 words in print

At some point in 2017, without me realising it, I crossed over into having written over a 1,000,000 words of published fiction.

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