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fairrealms.bsky.social @fairrealms.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

✷ GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT - DAN ABNETT ✷ We are delighted to announce Dan Abnett as our first guest! Dan will join us at the Fair Realms Fantasy Fiction Festival on 27th March 2027 at Nottingham Central Library. ✷ ✷ Follow us for more guest announcements and ticket releases - coming soon ✷ ✷

Guest Author
Dan Abnett
Dan Abnett is a prolific comic book writer & novelist famous for Warhammer 40,000 & Guardians of the Galaxy

Fair Realms fantasy fiction Festival Nottingham Central Library, 27 March 2027

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fairrealms.bsky.social @fairrealms.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Fair Realms is a free celebration of fantasy worlds with the creatives who craft them via panels, signings & workshops. Join creators from fantasy fiction, comics, video games & games design at Nottingham Central Library on 27 March 2027. ✷ Guest reveals start next week ✷

Fair Realms is a free celebration of fantasy worlds with the creatives who craft them via panels, signings and workshops.

Join creators from fantasy fiction, comics, video games and games design at Nottingham Central Library on 27 March 2027.

Follow us @FairRealms for more…

Supported by the Arts Council England and The British Academy.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So excited to be able to talk more about this soon.... it's something we've been cooking for a while and we can't wait to share what we have planned! 😍🖤 @guyhaley.bsky.social @nickybandini.bsky.social @johnfrench.bsky.social @squintywitch.bsky.social @thetowerofstars.bsky.social @gavthorpe.co.uk

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

New acolyte for my latest Inquisition warband… and the Kev Walker art that inspired it. #warhammer #inq28 #warhammer40k

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The titans of two legions line up for battle . Great game at Warhammer World alongside @gavthorpe.co.uk, Guy Hayley and @mikebrooks668.bsky.social #warhammer #adeptustitanicus #horusheresy

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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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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's just brilliant. So much really important stuff is communicated by how a word is said, or by a facial expression. It respects its audience completely.

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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 · 09/09/2026

They desperately, desperately want it to be ok for them to do no work, have no craft, and for the machine work they claim as their own to be given equal status as something that someone has actually written.

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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

An added bonus is that you will find the best way to pitch your story. A lot of being a writer is pitching and developing ideas, and this technique is one of the best things you can do to help with that.

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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

That's a good one! And there are so, so many examples of great books that open with weather, that I am fairly certain that it's at best a rule of thumb.

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

My top counter examples are The Grapes of Wrath, Bleak House, and Neuromancer (yes, that first line is weather).

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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

fantasyflightgames.com

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 · 05/07/2026

I’ve read all of the first run and own the game, but not played it yet. Yeah, a neo would fit me. Godbinder is tempting, though and d12 is another favorite die.

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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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