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I often see author profiles that talk about being lifelong storytellers and coming up with wild ideas since they were kids. It'd be nice to say that of me, but that's not how it went.
When I was about eighteen a friend asked me, out of the blue, to help write some stories for a comic book he was working on and, while it never came to anything, trying it made me realise this was something I enjoyed.

I then spent many years intermittently trying to write books and short stories, none of which were particularly good and most of which were pretty half-hearted.

In 2014 I decided to have a proper go of it and wrote a massive tome that was far too long and bulky to publish, but which at least had the makings of a decent book. I hacked at it, abandon ...more

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Not the best short I've read, but a nicely well-contained story, and enough to make me curious about this series (though Eisenhorn has set the bar pretty high - we shall have to see!) ...more
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Some Orky POV and a character who reminds us all of the classic Catachan Captain model from second ed - good enough for me!
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Another very fun Eisenhorn short. I don't know if it's quite as good as Missing in Action (arguably my favourite Eisenhorn adventure so far), but still we had an ending that was a little more complex than one generally expects from a short. Once agai ...more
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OK, nobody is going into this not knowing how it ends, so I was impressed at how engaged I felt when reading it. Well worth a read.
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Not bad, by any means, but not the 'edge of your seat tense' story that I'd heard it was. Brief and decent, so by all means I'd recommend it, just don't expect wonders. ...more
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