The Walking Dead (Game, not the Series)
I usually couldn’t care less about spoilers, but if anyone ruins this for me, I will hunt them down and slowly spread Marmite over their juicy, squishy eyeballs. I will then eat their eyeballs, like...
View ArticleA Tale of Five Heretics
A Tale of Five Heretics: Dramatis Personae I – IV – VI – IX – XX After infinite delays, let’s talk some hobby. Specifically, let’s talk Heresy armies. As my 40K campaign grows ever-larger, I find...
View ArticleWhat’s on my desktop this month…
The last Desktop Watch came at the end of my Mega-Photo Canada Update(TM), but with deadlines looming and Alexander’s first birthday party this weekend, there’s only time for a flyby teaser. Here’re...
View ArticleA Year Ago Today
Alexander is 1 today. A year ago, this was happening: http://aarondembskibowden.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/dear-fuchsia-part-iiib-dear-alexander/
View ArticleGirls + Star Wars = Murderers
Excuse the pointless update, but I was just going through my Old Republic screenshots folder. For some reason, Katie and Emma are completely missing the good-time wholesome ‘family movie’ aspect of the...
View ArticleThe Talon of Horus
I can hardly believe it, but I started The Talon of Horus today. The book I’ve been wanting to write since forever. The rough plan (very, very rough, remember) is to open the Black Legion Series with a...
View ArticleA Tale of Five Heretics: Red Team, Update #1
The Traitors (consisting of Eddie, Alan and Ead) have hobbied and lobbied about 16,000,000 times harder than me and John on the Loyalist side, meaning that in the absence of any Blue Team information,...
View ArticleThe Talon of Horus – Cover
Well, because you asked so nicely (and as a reward for 5,000 Likes on Facebook), here’s the cover for The Talon of Horus. Don’t say I never give you anything.
View ArticleVideo: Alexander’s First Year
A video I made for distant friends and family, showing a bunch of photos and footage of Shakes in his first year on this wonderful world we call Terra. It’s my first ever attempt to edit a video...
View ArticleWriting Advice: The Toasty Corpse-Shroud of Elitism
I get asked about writing advice all the time, and all the time I refuse to give it because there are others out there doing it better, with far more qualifications in that regard. But I’ll tell you a...
View ArticlePhoenix, Baby
As some of you know, I recently went to Phoenix. As fewer of you know (but those who do possess this lore are among my very favourite humans), I’m something of a Phoenix Suns fan. As many more of you...
View ArticleMy Wedding Speech (by New York Times bestselling author Aaron Dembski-Bowden…)
July 5th marked mine and Katie’s 2-year anniversary, and I thought – in lieu of actual content and updates about writing – this might interest one or two of you. With apologies for sound quality at the...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Abaddon
In recent months, as The Talon of Horus rolls ever onward, I’ve spilled a wealth of words on Ezekyle Abaddon and the Black Legion over emails and hastily-chucked notes to various other authors and...
View ArticleDeathwatch, Talon, and the Rise of the Weekender…
The Black Library Weekender is mere days away. As anyone who knows me can attest, I’m “not a big events guy”. At GDUK, you’ll usually find me taking longer breaks than the other authors, or signing for...
View ArticleSeriously, though. Look at this fucking jelly bean.
Sometimes, just sometimes, the Candy Goblins will get caught in their own rattle-clanking machinery, and their saccharine corpses become yet another ingredient in the deliciousness they produce. And...
View ArticleThe Weekender Arrives (plus, some Hallowe’en Curze Art)
The Black Library Weekender is mere hours away. So close in fact that me, Katie, and Shakes are flying over tomorrow for the traditional “Having dinner with Liz and John French on the night before an...
View ArticleAs 2013 Draws to a Close…
Just bolting online in a hurry to say thank you to everyone for another wonderful year. If you’re crazy enough to like my work, thanks for supporting it – whether you did so through buying it, through...
View ArticleDeathwatch – The Vigil Begins
You may remember that I’m starting a Deathwatch game soon – next weekend, in fact – with a few of the members of my 40K campaign group. It’ll also be the first field test of the (finally finished)...
View ArticleDeathwatch: Mission to Tantalus
This weekend I paid my taxes and killed a tyranid hive tyrant. In that order.— Aaron Dembski-Bowden (@adembskibowden) February 02, 2014 Last weekend saw our first game of Deathwatch in what’s looking...
View ArticleLook what I saw in the wild…
Actually, I’m lying. I didn’t see this in the wild, but it’s hit the desks at Black Library Towers, and I’m pretty much in love with how it looks. I like how subtle and understated it is. It’s not...
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