SORE GUM'S SECOND EP DROPS MARCH 6TH!!!
Here's a little teaser of the three tracks. Gordy Crawford and I worked hard on this and I think it fucking slaps 🙏
SORE GUM'S SECOND EP DROPS MARCH 6TH!!!
Here's a little teaser of the three tracks. Gordy Crawford and I worked hard on this and I think it fucking slaps 🙏
There's a new Black Library app on the way, and if you link your account in the first month you can get Darkoath for free in ebook and audiobook! That's two of the different kinds of book it is! www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...
18.02.2026 15:48 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1Thanks for running a great event, man!
02.02.2026 08:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our team dodged the wooden spoon by a hair! I’m proud of us.
01.02.2026 19:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two glass trophies from Brotherhood 2026, a team event for Warhammer Age of Sigmar.
Wrapped up Brotherhood 2026 in Cardiff with two pieces of glass for army painting! First place in the player vote, second place with the judges. Really happy - this is the first time I’ve won the vote at an event. Please do not ask any follow up questions about my win/loss ratio over the weekend.
01.02.2026 18:03 — 👍 42 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0
A collection of Slaves to Darkness Warhammer miniatures arranged on a gaming table.
A close-up of a Chaos Lord miniature and his retinue.
Chaos Warriors clash with Seraphon in a game of Age of Sigmar.
I’m at Firestorm in Cardiff this weekend for team Age of Sigmar. First proper outing for Abraxia and her various hangers-on since I finished my Slaves to Darkness project at the start of the year.
31.01.2026 12:47 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A paperback copy of ‘Grombrindal: Ancestor’s Burden’ on a bookstore shelf.
Grombrindal: Ancestor’s Burden is out now in paperback! Some of these stories have previously been available as six magazines, a hardback, an audiobook, an ebook, and a Word document on my computer. This is perhaps the most convenient iteration yet!
31.01.2026 12:37 — 👍 51 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
In today’s Black Library review we check out Abraxia, Spear of the Everchosen by @cjpt.bsky.social , the first full length story focussing on the everchosen’s herald.
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The 2025 @goonhammer.com Book Awards!
Who will win Best #BlackLibrary Writer? Nominees are:
> @johnfrench.bsky.social
> @guyhaley.bsky.social
> Robbie MacNiven
> @aptshadow.bsky.social
> @cjpt.bsky.social
VOTE NOW!
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2025 @goonhammer.com Book Awards
Who will win Best Age of Sigmar Novel?
> Abraxia, Spear of the Everchosen by @cjpt.bsky.social
> Starseer's Ruin by @aptshadow.bsky.social
> Ushoran, Mortarch of Delusion by @dalelucas.bsky.social
VOTE NOW!
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I painted Minilla for my friend Chris.
You're welcome, sorry @cjpt.bsky.social
A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.
I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:
www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...
I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.
My post-layoff professional hiatus has come to an end and I'm looking to rebuild my contact book. If you're in need of:
✏️ Fiction! Produced entirely by my human brain and hands!
🧙♂️ Narrative design, worldbuilding or creative direction!
🎺 Comms, bizdev or marketing support!
...then get in touch!
A close-up of a painted Abraxia miniature, showing horned woman with burning eyes.
The limited edition hardback of Abraxia: Spear of the Everchosen, featuring a stylised depiction of the title character.
I repainted Abraxia’s face after seeing Valera Lutfullina’s cover treatment for the limited edition hardback. Such a great piece.
03.01.2026 20:48 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Three painted Varanguard minis - armoured knights with daemonic weapons.
Three painted Varanguard minis - armoured knights with daemonic weapons.
And, in the same time span, these guys. When I started collecting Age of Sigmar, Varanguard were unimaginably intimidating minis. I have now painted six of them and this is still the case.
Also! All of these minis correspond to characters in the novel. According to me, anyway.
A painted miniature of Abraxia - an armoured warrior with a burning spear riding a pale, wingless draconic monster.
Three painted Chaos Lord miniatures, including a sorcerer.
A painted Daemon Prince miniature standing over a lava flow.
After maybe 15 months (!) of sporadic effort, I’ve finally finished painting Abraxia and her entourage. I wrote the novel faster.
03.01.2026 20:38 — 👍 147 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 0
Hardback copies of 'Grombrindal: Ancestor's Burden' and 'Abraxia: Spear of the Everchosen' on a wooden tabletop.
Happy to have made two contributions to the Black Library in the last year. Thanks to everybody who read Abraxia or Grombrindal - the community response to both was really fun to watch. Unlikely to be much new fiction from me in 2026, as I'm currently working on novel number four. 2027, though...
01.01.2026 11:54 — 👍 35 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
A small golden cat called Potato sits on a tabletop next to a wicker basket and a fruit bowl. He is sitting still because he can see, off-camera, that I have some smoked salmon.
Happy New Year, all. I'm glad to put 2025 behind me, on balance. But this was also the year that I had a game dev stress dream about herding cats so vivid that it led obliquely but inexorably to the adoption of my golden son, Potato. So thanks, 2025. Thanks, game development. Thanks, Potato.
01.01.2026 11:47 — 👍 33 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0It’s a dreadful privilege to be so Known. Thank you, friend
24.12.2025 12:36 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Was very happy to contribute some thoughts to this excellent article 🙏
18.12.2025 22:46 — 👍 267 🔁 93 💬 0 📌 0There’s something incredibly funny to me about getting a buzzy recap of that time I got laid off
17.12.2025 19:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Analogous with populist politicians who thrive in opposition but are quickly exposed when they actually have to govern - just a pity they need to get elected for that to happen. Funny how "actually holding people accountable for the claims they make" is the common element, there.
17.12.2025 18:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hard to think of *any* issue in my life on which the public have been so uniformly opposed to the govt's agenda. The unanimity exceeds any anti-war movement, even. What could the govt even propose that would less popular? Excited to see Starmer try!!
15.12.2025 17:25 — 👍 48 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0Just finished More Everything Forever by @adambecker.bsky.social - really thorough and humane joining-of-the-dots between AI, effective altruism, SF, cosmism and plutocracy that arcs, as most things should, toward the inevitable conclusion that Le Guin was right about everything
17.12.2025 10:42 — 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1William
17.12.2025 08:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Buddy
10.12.2025 19:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'm all in favour of Chaos Christmas. Abraxia's probably the least festive book I've written - it's more of a breezy beach read - but enjoy!
02.12.2025 15:43 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Due to scheduling weirdness, Grombrindal was also up for the 2024 vote earlier this year, alongside Darkoath. I've managed to split my own vote twice with a single book. Good job, Grombrindal.
02.12.2025 15:38 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Both Grombrindal and Abraxia are up for 2025's Black Library Book of the Year! Delighted if either of them to get your vote. www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...
02.12.2025 15:37 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0