After writing a story in primary school about a giant octopus smashing up a boat, Graham realised that making stuff up was easier (and a lot more fun) than reality and decided at an early age that he was either going to be a binman or a writer. Fortunately, a life on the bins wasn’t on the cards and, after escaping a stint as a building surveyor in Glasgow, he headed south in 2000 to join the Games Workshop’s Games Development Team. Here he worked on projects such as the Tau, Necrons, Witch Hunters, Space Marines and Black Templars codexes for Warhammer 40,000, Conquest of the New World and The Empire for Warhammer, and The Two Towers for The Lord of the Rings. As well as all this, he was involved in running Studio campaigns and collecting the odd toy soldier.
Between populating the various Warhammer universes with fiends and heroes, he’s written (so far) thirteen short stories for the Black Library and a whole bunch of novels, which came about when he was approached in a seedy bar (well, Bugman’s) and asked if he’d like to write a novel involving a codex chapter of Space Marines. After a full microsecond’s thought he said yes and five months later, the first Uriel Ventris novel, Nightbringer, was published. Later Graham turned to his darker side and wrote Storm of Iron, featuring the twisted servants of Chaos in form of the Iron Warriors. More Uriel Ventris novels followed, Warriors of Ultramar and Dead Sky, Black Sun, as well as three novels set in the dark and dangerous Warhammer World; the Ambassador, Ursun’s Teeth and Guardians of the Forest.
Following that it was a return to the 40K universe, but in a slightly different way, penning False Gods, a novel of the Horus Heresy (which seemed to do alright…), the second book in the opening trilogy of this epic period.
Graham left Games Workshop in the summer of 2006 and now works as a full-time freelancer, spending most of his days locked in a tiny office and dreaming up new and dangerous ways to start wars in the Warhammer universes and put his characters through hell on the pages of his novels, short stories and background books. Currently, Graham’s working on another Horus Heresy novel entitled ‘Fulgrim’, which, as you might have guessed, is about the tragic downfall of Fulgrim and the Emperor’s Children. After that it’s a story of high adventure of the Elven island of Ulthuan, followed by a return to the Ultramarines and the next Uriel Ventris novel early next year.