Xmas 2019, the revenge

So another year draws to a close, its end hurtling towards us with the inevitability of Tactical Marines going mail-order only. It's certainly been an.. interesting one, with 40k flip-flopping around from being at times quite awesome (such as the long-awaited and mostly excellent Sisters of Battle release) and at others being thunderously wrong headed. (Certain supplements. You know which.)

For me personally it's been a year of slowly grinding forwards, with my writing career still not so much sitting on the tarmac as being carefully reassembled from bits somewhere near Kitty Hawk. On the gaming side I've been gradually learning how to play Age of Sigmar, mostly due to having a lot of Daemons lying around, though the resurrection of my ancient WFB Chaos army as Slaves To Darkness might just happen at some point. Frankly I still find the game a bit weird and seem to keep winning as Hedonites mostly by just shoving pink things in people's faces until they don't like it.*

Ain't no party like a WFB Slaanesh party..

Anyway, I've written a new short story to celebrate the festive season. It's called Foundation Day, and ties into the overall story of the Thelenic Curriculum without providing any spoilers for the books, mostly because it's set some twenty years before them. If you read it and like it, please consider checking out the other shorts either on this page or on the new site at thetcbooks.co.uk, or even buying the books on Kindle. We're talking a 400+ page novel for less than the price of a Starbucks latte here, people!

If that's not for you and you'd rather stay within the comfortable realm of 40k** then may I direct you to my 40k short, The Ork-Mass Miracle. It's a cheerful tale of Orks trying to find their way through a foggy warzone and one plucky Grot who... well, you'll see. This one was written for last Christmas but if you've not read it and find yourself with a spare half hour over the festive period, in my humble opinion you could do worse.***

Anyway, shameless self-promotion aside it just remains to wish all my readers and anyone else who's blundered in here a very Merry Christmas! See you on the other side....



*And then doing it even more, of course.

**I'd suggest that's an.. innovative use of the word 'comfortable' but hey, you do you.

***After all, some channel's going to be showing The Sound of Music again.