Anyone seen or heard from Dan Abnett?

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**Raven911**

Dan hasn't updated his blog in forever, and I don't see any new abnett books on black library. What the hell? Between the gaunts ghosts, inquisitor series, and the pre 40k books, there should be something out there. Has GW screwed him over as well? Seems like getting rid of your best author would be abut counter productive.

**Empchild**

Being that he's one of the writers for Guardians of the Galaxy I'm sure he's rather busy.

**Jimsolo**

Pariah came out not too long ago, and there should be another book in that series fairly soonish.

**BobtheInquisitor**

Wasn't he sick recently?

My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Abnett pass out at 31 Flavors last year.

**Pacific**

Think that was some time ago he was ill Bob? Possibly during the writing of Prospero Burns?

Empchild wrote:
Being that he's one of the writers for Guardians of the Galaxy I'm sure he's rather busy.

He's also done the writing for the new Aliens: Isolation game. Writing his own novels (still involved with 2000AD)? Point being, he has a career outside of Black Library.

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

Keeps linking stuff on facebook, I think he is more there at the moment, as he is doing Guardans, He Man and few other things to boot. Rather busy by all intents and purposes from what I can fathom on his page.

**Darth Bob**

Yeah the thing about Dan is that he still does a lot of writing outside Black Library and other GW-affiliated work. With Guardians of the Galaxy coming out this summer, I'm sure he's very busy.

**alphaecho**

The new Gaunt's Ghosts is out soon in hardback and he's constantly producing for 2000AD.

**jason1977**

BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Wasn't he sick recently?

My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Abnett pass out at 31 Flavors last year.

Quoting lines from Ferris Bueller wins you a date with Matt Ward. You buy dinner.

**reds8n**

Just been busy.

Was at the last HH meeting t'other week plus there's been some big ( relative) 2000Ad ( the comic book) signings etc going on.

Is now on instagram though.

Oh and his daughter and the dance act that she is a part of was on "Britain's Got Talent" recently as well.

**Ensis Ferrae**

Yeah, he was sick a bit back, but otherwise he has been making some club rounds for book signings and other goings on... probably gearing up for Guardians here as well.

(this just based on his Clone FB page)

**Dullspork**

He posted to Facebook two days ago. Clearly he wasn't dead then. Or was he?

**Wyrmalla**

He's still writing weekly stories in 2000AD too. =P

**Compel**

And of course, there's this little computer game coming out called Aliens Isolation...

**Breotan**

I thought Guardians was done quite a while ago. At least the writing part.

**BobtheInquisitor**

jason1977 wrote:
BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Wasn't he sick recently?

My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Abnett pass out at 31 Flavors last year.

Quoting lines from Ferris Bueller wins you a date with Matt Ward. You buy dinner.

That's fair. He's providing the dessert...

**ZebioLizard2**

He's working on the Infinite Crisis Comic book.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/05/16/interview-dan-abnett-talks-infinite-crisis-comic-video-game-tie-in

**Pacific**

Here is what he has been doing for 2000AD (courtesy of their website www.2000ADonline.com

New York Times best selling author Dan Abnett is to write an original novel set in the world of his hit 2000 AD comics series Kingdom. Co-written with Nik Vincent, Fiefdom is set one hundred years after the events of Kingdom, in which a genetically engineered dog-soldiers fought giant marauding insects in a post-apocalyptic future. Kingdom took us to the isolated wastelands of the southern hemisphere, where Gene the Hackman and his fellow Aux listen to the voices of The Masters as humanity hibernates, awaiting the destruction of the alien Them. In Fiefdom the action moves into the northern hemisphere, where Them are now a folk memory and the Aux war with one another in the ruins of what was once Berlin. Inspired by the legends of Gene, young Evelyn War begins to question the Aux’s situation as she hears the first rumours about the return of Them...

**Portugal Jones**

I kinda have to ask what kind of Hobbit-hole you've been hiding in if you think GW is the only work that Abnett does.

**Ensis Ferrae**

Portugal Jones wrote:
I kinda have to ask what kind of Hobbit-hole you've been hiding in if you think GW is the only work that Abnett does.

The kind where Gaunt's Ghosts are a new series of books?