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Guy Haley
@guyhaley.bsky.social
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#Author at Black Library, Solaris, Tor.com and Angry Robot. Ex-journalist and editor. Screenwriter, world-builder, ponderer. Angry goblin in a human world. Interested in far more things than I can possibly list in this puny box.
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · 7h
My 43rd Warhammer novel/novella has been announced. Go Cawl.
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Belisarius Cawl attempts to bridge the Great Rift in a new Black Library book - Warhammer Community
Can the Archmagos achieve the impossible?
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · 7d
It was very interesting.
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · 7d
Oh yeah, I didn’t go that far with it!
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · 8d
When I find contradictions like this, which are inevitable, given the setting's huge scope and the number of creators, it's my impulse to make BOTH true, which led to the Cawl series, and Cawl being a gestalt of merged personalities.
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · 8d
As an aside, GW aren't overly dictatorial about what we write. It was actually my idea, having been introduced to Cawl while writing Dark Imperium, to feature him the distant past as a young man. Interestingly, someone else, simultaneously, wrote about him being old in that period of 40k's setting.
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · 8d
I often try to use science to do this, but a lot of the time my research isn't profound, I do a bit of reading or simply apply logic to the situation. Logic led me to the Ultramaran quarantine protocols, so that's a win for me!
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · 8d
I also find it fascinating to speculate how this stuff would actually work in real life, and enjoy exploring it without breaking the rules of the universe.
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · 8d
Hey, thanks for that. That's really cool to hear that I got it right. It's very important for me as a writer that all the magic space stuff has a firm, believable background, because then it makes it easier to buy into.
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Variance Hammer @variancehammer.bsky.social · 8d
This one is me, talking about plague narratives in 40K, and how much they make sense from an epidemiological perspective.

TLDR: If it's @guyhaley.bsky.social odds are it's pretty good!

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Warhammer’s Plague Narratives from the Perspective of an Epidemiologist – Warhammer Conference 2025
YouTube video by Warhammer Conference
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · 26d
All three Questoris finished. Armigers next.
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · Sep 11
Nearly there…
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · Sep 5
I spent two weeks of hobby time gluing models together, so have only just got back to knight number 3.
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · Aug 31
Robots, robots, robots, robots.
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · Aug 27
Ha! It’s your hobby!
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · Aug 26
www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

Nice to see another character I created make the leap into plastic.
Master of Rites Ferren Areios revealed - Warhammer Community
Black Library hero makes the leap from book to the tabletop
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · Aug 11
I finally got the base on knight #2 done, and I’ve got a bit further with #3.
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · Aug 4
So I have my knights well on the way. They will be my third Horus Heresy Army. I worked out with the four armigers, three questoris and twenty Solar Auxilia I have, I've got exactly 2000 points. I'm going to paint that, then I'd like to expand it to 3000. A full banner of 5 Questoris is tempting.
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · Aug 4
I have been busy…
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · Jul 27
You can do it!
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · Jul 27
If you’re certain you’re going to cut that much, do the edit first. An edit that big will change the shape of the project. You’ll get more focussed feedback from your beta readers. It’s better than having them fight through stuff you’re going to lose anyway.
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · Jul 16
I see! Yeah, apologies if I seemed curt. It’s always the way with 40k. People can take any statement, no matter how it is contextualised or who is saying it, as being the truth. I’m always keen to avoid that!
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · Jul 16
Ah yeah. Well, I had to be really careful not to give any spoilers away, so that was one thing, and my original text was cut to avoid it. Another thing is that the sort of ‘great read’ kind of text veers dangerously close to reviewing, which I try to avoid.
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · Jul 16
I’m a fan of testimonials in storytelling, to be honest. It’s a trick I’ve used more than once!
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · Jul 15
I’m racing through this fella!
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social · Jul 15
Cheers Willard!
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