Dan Abnett's Blog, page 12

Help Wanted

Let's begin today's post with a splendid, makes-the-job-worthwhile letter from the mailbag:

Dear Messers Abnett and Lanning,

You've gone and done it again!
I was reading the Thanos Imperative #1 and was completely thrilled
at the comment that 'evil' Captain Marvel makes to the
'evil' Quasar about how this universe is still young enough to
have death, as this immediately made the following come to mind "And
with strange aeons even death may die." This was absolutely
brilliant! As it...

Ravenor and Co

Some splendid character sketches from this blog's good friend Nic Giacondino. May I also take this opportunity to point you in the direction of his fabulous online strip here. Gosh, it's just great!

Before I forget, hair colour suggestions for Carl or Wystan, anybody?

If it's on my fridge, it must be true

Will you be there? (At the event, I mean. Not on my fridge. D'uh).

Home from Nerdistan...

...as we affectionately called the San Diego Comic-Con. Let's take a look around. First, a quick peek at an interview with SFX magazine.


Then, above, here's me.








Here's my schedule.






















Here's me signing someone's unfeasibly large weapon.


















Here are some people (there were quite a few).


















Is this the Dan Abnett queue? Why, yes!





















To the Batcave (and soft furnishings, housewares and scented candles).























Commissar Smaalders and friends.


















Another of the fair Commissar's assault squad.





















Me signing another unfeasibly larg...

San Diego ComiCon: A Danwatcher's Guide

ComiCon fast approaches. If you're going to be there, and you'd like to stop by and say hello to me (or to me AND Andy Lanning), here's a list of the whys and wherefores of when I'm supposed to be around:


THURSDAY

3.15 - 4.15 Mr Lanning and I will be part of the Mighty Marvel Mondo panel in room 6DE

5.00 - 6.00 I'll be on SFX magazine's "British Invasion" panel in room 5AB


FRIDAY

10.00 - 11.00 I'll be doing an Ultramarines signing at Autograph Area (AA) 20 in the Sails Pavilion

5.00 - 6.00 ...

Black Library Invasion!

Invading your world on September 9th, 2010.

A Trumpet of One's Own

Please feel free to keep reading and expressing your verdicts on the exclusive Prospero Burns extract published in the post below. Today's quick post-ette isn't intended to get in the way of that. I just wanted to share a couple of coolnesses that had come my way today: first, a five star review from SF Signal, and then an opportunity to hear me and Andy shill our dubious wares on the Funnybooks podcast (thanks to Aron and Paulie!).

Prospero Burns: Exclusive extract

Well, I promised it and here it is: a little taster from the opening of my next Horus Heresy novel to whet your appetites. Hope you enjoy it. Who knows - maybe I'll run another extract in the near future to really get you addicted.

Okay...*clears throat*...




Death had them surrounded.
It had come to cut threads, and today, it wore four faces.
A burning death for those too hurt or too afraid to flee the settlement as the firestorm swept through it. A freezing death for those who ran away up the...

The Hundreds and Thousands Sons, or Prospero: the clean-up

As I said, I have at last finished the unfeasibly ferocious epic that is Prospero Burns, the latest Horus Heresy novel. The book itself didn't give me any problems, per se, but regular readers will know that it has been badly delayed because, during the course of writing, I was set back by the sudden occurence of late-onset epilepsy. Such larks!

I had to work my way through the initial episodes and the subsequent diagnosis. In re-arranging my life around the condition (and the medication that...

ComicCon (2)

Little bit more detail from SFX on the panel I'll be participating in. Check the Ultramarines link in the post below for details of the Friday morning signing session, and I'll be back soon to post details of other stuff, probably Marvel related signing and panel work.

And yes, hooray, I did at last complete Prospero Burns yesterday (thank you for the congrats, Mr C). It's epic. Thanks for bearing with me through an unusually complicated writing period. I think you'll find it's been worth it....