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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The last titan to complete my Axiom Maniple. Crimson Jackal walks for Legio Mortis #warhammer #adeptustitanicus #horusheresy

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Spending the afternoon statting up tiny, murderous, painted puppets. They are always smiling. Stuff of nightmares right there. #ttrpg #horror #callofcthulhu

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Jonny Sims @jonnysims.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just finished a long-overdue rewatch of the 1979 "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" adaptation with Alec Guiness. Fuck me we used to have acting, didn't we?

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Technology is great… right up to the point when it doesn’t sync to the cloud correctly, craters two hours of work, and just grins back at you with a last saved version while saying ‘No, this is it. There have been no changes.’

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The War of Art is still the best book on writing (or actually doing anything that’s hard) that I’ve read. Never stops being true.

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ten years on, and this is pretty cool!

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

‘We are but a party of traveling necromancers…’ WIP of the Outcast Cawdor gang I seem to have started. The Brotherhood of the True Resurrection rises! #warhammer #necromunda #warhammer40k

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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We have unlocked a new stretch goal on our Time Without Tide campaign: An adventure written by George Mann! Mann has written for some of our favourite worlds including Star Wars, Doctor Who, DC Comics, and Dark Souls. Check out the campaign today: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

[Steps up to lectern in front of news cameras] Folks… he got him. youtu.be/FTceZxXYZCw?...

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Rare encounter between coyote and roadrunner captured in SoCal

YouTube video by KTLA 5

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

THE WICKED AND THE WARPED is on Audible today, release day, and Richard Reed is BACK!!!

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

WIFE: Weird, I didn’t order makeup sponges… ME: Those are mine. … WIFE: Are you doing makeup when you film videos now? ME: They’re for my models. WIFE: Oh… that makes more sense.

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Go on, sign up to my mailing list – it’s got stories, and writing advice and articles and crunchy bits, but alas no chocolate. You have to sort the chocolate yourself. Click here and sign up john-french.com/mailing-list/

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Random writing tip: Write out a one line summary of your story. Then do it again but differently. Then again. And again and again, until you are barely think of how to say the same thing in a different way. You’ll understand so much more about your story and how to express it by the end.

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Yes, after many, many people saying that I should, I am reading Between Two Fires… It’s rather good isn’t it? Thanks to @georgemann.bsky.social for pushing me over the edge! #reading #books

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Sometimes I think I’m immune to hype, nerves too burnt out by decades of trailer slams. But then…

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This is wonderful- A huge honour! As I have said before, Exile was a book that I wasn’t expecting to write. The idea for it arrived literally as I was talking to my editor about why another pitch was a no go. Turned out pretty well in the end!

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

'Never open a book with weather' is being added to my list of writing 'rules' that have so many exceptions and counter examples that it might as well be shuffled away into the box of 'guidelines-that-are-sometimes-useful' along with show, don't tell. #writingadvice #writing

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I love the fact that this article still exists in the archives of the internet. Both because I had the best time working on the Dark Heresy ttrpg, and because the photo at the bottom of the article is evidence that I once had hair... #darkheresy #warhammer #ttrpgs

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Part Six: Adding Some Grim Darkness to the Far Future

by Alan Bligh and John French

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

There are times when I want to read something I have not read before, and there are times that I just want to re-read Neuromancer. #cyberpunk #scifi

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I know the D20 is the classic die of rpgs but I’ve always liked D10s. #ttrpg #dice

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Marc Collins @malkydel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/k... Look what you can pick up now! Krakenblood in paperback! Watch as Ivar Krakenblood makes choices for good and ill, as he chases glory and vengeance!

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Reminder that I'm being interviewed by @johnfrench.bsky.social at Nottingham Waterstones on this coming Tuesday, 30th June, about my new fantasy adventure novel This Is Where The Future Bleeds, and writing in general! Get tickets now! www.waterstones.com/events/mike-...

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Mike Brooks in Conversation with John French | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Mike Brooks in Conversation with John French today.

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It's surface-of-the-sun hot here, so of course I'm inside writing about winter and snow. #writing

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I'm sending out an email on how to create characters with depth in fiction, and how it's easier than you think. I'm sending it out tomorrow, so if you sign up now, you'll get it within a virtual eyeblink. Click the link to sign up: john-french.com#mailchimp-po...

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Come and hear me talk about THIS IS WHERE THE FUTURE BLEEDS at @srfantasyclub.bsky.social tomorrow evening from 6.30! Come and hear RJ talk about MORTEDANT'S PERIL! Throw things! It's important enrichment activity for authors!

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

What relics from ancient battles are these? Various protagonists and antagonists from the various narrative skirmish campaigns I ran… a while ago. #warhammer #inq28 #warhammer40k

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This is Where the Future Bleeds by @mikebrooks668.bsky.social It’s got wasps that live in frozen time, monsters, killers and a thoroughly trustworthy (honest) bunch of heroes, who might just save the future. Come and listen to Mike talk about the book at Waterstones Nottingham on the 30th of June

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Trying very hard not to start developing a new rpg system and setting. I keep telling my brain that I don’t have the time but it’s not listening.

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

As a reward for lots of writing, I am now going to attempt to binge all the graphic novels I have bought over the last two years, and been using to build a fairly serviceable fortress wall next to my desk. #writing #comics

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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

We announced a lot of exiting things at Chaosium Con UK this past weekend! Can you spot anything you missed?

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Pure nostalgia - Warrior Priest from the original Warhammer Quest released over 30 years ago, painted at the time (can you tell?) #warhammer #warhammerquest #oldhammer

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Amazing time at Chaosium Con UK. Great games and panels, and some amazing stuff coming out for #callofcthulhu

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I broke my coffee maker this morning. On any day this would be a tragedy, but as today is a 'finish-writing-some-really-important-stuff day' its a full blown caffeine based disaster. #sendespresso #writing

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Another relic from the red-foam cases - the original Scyla. Might find a place in an #Inq28 game. #warhammer #oldhammer

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

New post on substack all about the writers reality. This time we talk about how what you have already done determines what you can do. open.substack.com/pub/johnfren...?

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

A Grey Knight conversion from long ago, in a time when I sometimes attempted clean paint schemes. So long ago that the case I found it in had red foam. #warhammer #warhammer40k #inq28

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Getting myself into the mood to write some cosmic horror by reading this brilliant adaption from Ian Culbard. Have you seen the yellow sign? #horror #kinginyellow #cthulhu

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

A bit of AoS terrain suborned for Inq28 and 40k. A burning thing of darkness and screaming souls... What might be trapped inside? #Warhammer #warhammer40k #inq28

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Vincent Knotley @vincentknotley.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Gotta say, @johnfrench.bsky.social's Dropsite Massacre was a fun read. Weaving a gorge of depth into its events while somehow still gripping the tension tight even though almost everyone reading knows exactly how things will end going in. Hearty recommend for anyone who enjoyed the Horus Heresy.

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I love John le Carré’s work. You have to pay attention and that attention is rewarded. It’s slow, unhurried, but tense - serious in a way that is often at odds with popular literature. Given how much I love his work it’s taken me a long time to get to this- can’t wait.

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