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Chris Thursten

@cjpt.bsky.social

Author and game developer. Stories for Black Library. He/him https://linktr.ee/cthursten

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Chris Thursten@cjpt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I've sent the email and now Book Four is off to my editor. These moments feel so strange. It's like being one of those big dockside gantry cranes watching a boat plop out to sea. Bye, boat! I'll just stand here, then.

Chris Thursten@cjpt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

So sad to hear about John Blanche. Hard to say anything that hasn't been said about the impact his art has had on so many of us. For me, writing Warhammer means building out from - and always arcing back toward - images like these and all of the ideas and feelings bound up in them. Rest in peace.

Black Templars by John BlancheKnight Panther by John BlancheSkarbrand by John Blanche
Chris Thursten@cjpt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thought I'd kick off the year by painting a Blood Bowl team, having never done one before. That was January. Now it's basically June. Anyway, here are some Bretonnians.

A collection of painted Bretonnians for Blood Bowl, including one very small frog.
Chris Thursten@cjpt.bsky.social · 8mo ago

My post-layoff professional hiatus has come to an end and I'm looking to rebuild my contact book. If you're in need of: ✏️ Fiction! Produced entirely by my human brain and hands! 🧙‍♂️ Narrative design, worldbuilding or creative direction! 🎺 Comms, bizdev or marketing support! ...then get in touch!

Chris Thursten@cjpt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The new Black Library app is now available, and my first novel Darkoath is free for the first month! Including the audiobook, if you’d like to hear Jon Rand’s excellent narration.

A screenshot from the new Black Library app showing a range of free titles, including ‘Darkoath’
Chris Thursten@cjpt.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Wrapped up Brotherhood 2026 in Cardiff with two pieces of glass for army painting! First place in the player vote, second place with the judges. Really happy - this is the first time I’ve won the vote at an event. Please do not ask any follow up questions about my win/loss ratio over the weekend.

Two glass trophies from Brotherhood 2026, a team event for Warhammer Age of Sigmar.
Chris Thursten@cjpt.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I’m at Firestorm in Cardiff this weekend for team Age of Sigmar. First proper outing for Abraxia and her various hangers-on since I finished my Slaves to Darkness project at the start of the year.

A collection of Slaves to Darkness Warhammer miniatures arranged on a gaming table.A close-up of a Chaos Lord miniature and his retinue.Chaos Warriors clash with Seraphon in a game of Age of Sigmar.
Chris Thursten@cjpt.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Grombrindal: Ancestor’s Burden is out now in paperback! Some of these stories have previously been available as six magazines, a hardback, an audiobook, an ebook, and a Word document on my computer. This is perhaps the most convenient iteration yet!

A paperback copy of ‘Grombrindal: Ancestor’s Burden’ on a bookstore shelf.
Chris Thursten@cjpt.bsky.social · 8mo ago

My post-layoff professional hiatus has come to an end and I'm looking to rebuild my contact book. If you're in need of: ✏️ Fiction! Produced entirely by my human brain and hands! 🧙‍♂️ Narrative design, worldbuilding or creative direction! 🎺 Comms, bizdev or marketing support! ...then get in touch!

Chris Thursten@cjpt.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Happy to have made two contributions to the Black Library in the last year. Thanks to everybody who read Abraxia or Grombrindal - the community response to both was really fun to watch. Unlikely to be much new fiction from me in 2026, as I'm currently working on novel number four. 2027, though...

Hardback copies of 'Grombrindal: Ancestor's Burden' and 'Abraxia: Spear of the Everchosen' on a wooden tabletop.
Chris Thursten@cjpt.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Happy New Year, all. I'm glad to put 2025 behind me, on balance. But this was also the year that I had a game dev stress dream about herding cats so vivid that it led obliquely but inexorably to the adoption of my golden son, Potato. So thanks, 2025. Thanks, game development. Thanks, Potato.

A small golden cat called Potato sits on a tabletop next to a wicker basket and a fruit bowl. He is sitting still because he can see, off-camera, that I have some smoked salmon.
Marsh Davies@marshdavies.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Hard to think of *any* issue in my life on which the public have been so uniformly opposed to the govt's agenda. The unanimity exceeds any anti-war movement, even. What could the govt even propose that would less popular? Excited to see Starmer try!!

Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright: - 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is) 🧵 1/2

Chris Thursten@cjpt.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Just finished More Everything Forever by @adambecker.bsky.social - really thorough and humane joining-of-the-dots between AI, effective altruism, SF, cosmism and plutocracy that arcs, as most things should, toward the inevitable conclusion that Le Guin was right about everything

Chris Thursten@cjpt.bsky.social · 9mo ago

For what feels like every possible reason this has been a slow, slow hobby year for me. But I've finished something! Here's my take on the Helsmiths of Hashut Spearhead.

A collection of painted Warhammer Age of Sigmar miniatures from the Helsmiths of Hashut faction.