Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

John French

@johnfrench.bsky.social

1.5K followers 130 following 200 posts

Award winning script writer, novelist, and games designer. john-french.com Rep'ed by @losbennett.bsky.social @liverpool-lit.bsky.social Love Warhammer, DnD, and Call of Cthulhu

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hi!
Greetings and introductions! Here's the blurb: I am a writer. If you like Warhammer, you might have run into me via the Ahriman series, or in the Horus Heresy novels. I post about books, writing, an painting miniatures because all of those things are great.
www.john-french.com

Award winning Script Writer, Novelist, and Games Designer - John French

John French is an Award winning Script Writer, Novelist and Games Designer, writing for a variety of works for fantasy and sci-fi genres.

www.john-french.com

1 5 33

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 1d

Hmmm

Reposted by John French

The Black Librarian @theblacklibrarian.bsky.social · 2d

Folks mentioned this week include:

@johnfrench.bsky.social David Annandale, @warlordguymer.bsky.social Chris Wraight, @jonathandbeer.bsky.social Nate Crowley, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, @grahammcneill.bsky.social Omar El Akkad, @ianmcdonald.bsky.social

#Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary

Goonhammer @goonhammer.com · 2d

The Black Library weekly is here! In addition to looking at the upcoming schedule and ICYMI, he has a six-pack interview with Jonathan D Beer!

Black Library Weekly: Entering the Mile High Club

The Black Library weekly is here! In addition to looking at the upcoming schedule and ICYMI, he has a six-pack interview with Jonathan D Beer!

www.goonhammer.com

2 5

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a brand new novel

1 1

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 1d

Dropsite Massacre is going on preorder this week!
Head over to Warhammer Community for more:
www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...
#warhammer #horusheresy #books

4 4 39

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 3d

One for creative folks - Keep your notebooks. I don’t mean an app, or on your phone. I mean pen and paper. Use them and keep them, because they hold the how past you thought, how ideas formed and grew, and one day you will want to revisit that.
Keep your notebooks.

2 9

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 4d

10/ 10. No notes.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

1 1 4

Reposted by John French

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

650 8.2K 25K

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you!

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 5d

Prompted by some questions on Dark Heresy of old, it’s into the archives of the Tarantine Cabal I go. It’s been a long time since these words were set down. Such good times. So much craziness.
#warhammer #warhammer #darkheresy #rpg

1 18

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 9d

What’a this? A glimpse of Dawn of War IV? Come and see, come and see.
#warhammer #dawnofwar

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV – "Back to War" In-Engine Trailer | PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct

YouTube video by Warhammer

youtu.be

3 1 14

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 12d

Yesterday was all about Innsmouth, gifts from the sea, and storm sewers... Today is all about Prohibition and Federal agents far from home... Tomorrow is looking like academics, tomes, and ill advised reading lists...
Never a dull moment in a writer's life.
#cthulhu #horror #1920s

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 14d

It is!

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 15d

Library time - the best time.

1 10

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 21d

Disease.
Like even now I look at it and don't understand how that is supposed to be correct.

Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 22d

Hello, I'm a professional author and I can never spell permanently or camouflage on the first try.

Come, make me feel better and share your nemesis words.

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 21d

Every time.

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 22d

Exibit A (ok, it’s tea in this case not coffee but it still counts)

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 22d

Today is post draft book submission day, which means it’s equal parts coffee, reading and figuring out where on earth I left the other projects I am working on.
#writing #books #coffee

1 3

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 26d

It's an incredible book. Took me a year and a half with breaks, but every part was just so good. Prose, research, framing, and that's before you get to what the book is telling you. A master work.

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · Sep 6

I love the Time Travelers series by Ian Mortimer. They perfectly hit that part of history that a writer really wants to know - not what happened, but what it was like to be live then. Highly recommended.

Paperback copy of Ian Mortimer’s book ‘The Time Traveler’s Guide to Regency Britain’.

1 4

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · Sep 1

Time to put the gang together.
#warhammer #warhammerageofsigmar #vampires

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · Aug 28

Editing time. Today is a day of cutting words like they ar-

Reposted by John French

The Black Librarian @theblacklibrarian.bsky.social · Aug 21

The reveals have been coming pretty steadily over at WarCom.

VERY excited for this one, and it’s by @johnfrench.bsky.social!

#Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary

www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

The Dropsite Massacre – A new perspective in the latest Black Library novel - Warhammer Community

A crucial tale retold.

www.warhammer-community.com

1 2 14

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · Aug 24

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#mailchimp-po...

Award winning Script Writer, Novelist, and Games Designer - John French

John French is an Award winning Script Writer, Novelist and Games Designer, writing for a variety of works for fantasy and sci-fi genres.

john-french.com

2 10

John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · Aug 22

Dropsite Massacre novel coming this year.
So excited that news of this is out in the wild.
Follow the link and find out more:

#horusheresy30k #warhammer #spacemarines

The Dropsite Massacre – A new perspective in the latest Black Library novel - Warhammer Community

A crucial tale retold.

www.warhammer-community.com

1 2 46

Reposted by John French

Aconyte Books @aconytebooks.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thunder's Edge: Echoes of Memory – A Twilight Imperium Novel by Sarah Cawkwell is available to pre-order now!
A prequel to the Thunder’s Edge expansion from @fantasyflightgames.bsky.social, follow Hacan war hero Harrugh Gerfara as he leads an expedition of survival!

books2read.com/TWIThundersE...

9 18