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Victoria Hayward
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Writer / Science Fiction / Fantasy / Birds / 🍸
Warhammer 40K Darktide / Black Library Author / Lancaster University Creative Writing Scholarship PhD Student 🌈

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https://linktr.ee/WriterVH
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chrisgardiner.bsky.social
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.

But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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plasmometer.bsky.social
i made an illustration for it last year... go read it, great writing
December 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
writervh.bsky.social
Wouldst thou like a grimdark festive tale from a snowy corner of Warhammer?

The Feast of Saint Luthera is available for £2.99 & your coin will buyeth more awful 40K swine than u ever knew u wanted 💀⚙️🐖

❄️

Plus
💀 Ruined castles
💀 spooky jester
💀 Decayed grandeur
💀 Flamboyant, evil king
🐖 Pig eggs
Black Library - The Feast Of Saint Luthera (eShort)
www.blacklibrary.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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johnfrench.bsky.social
On Christmas Eve, I’m back on the Scribes and Scrivners show on Warhammer+, talking about vampires and writing.
More here:

www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...
December 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
writervh.bsky.social
PSA - if you're in the Nottingham city centre Warhammer store you can pick up a signed copy of @robertrath.bsky.social's The Fall of Cadia (while supplies last! ;-) ) in the Black Li rary section :-) 🖤
Tory holds a photo of Robert Rath's Warhammer book, The Fall of Cadia
December 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
writervh.bsky.social
It's officially Christmas in Nottingham now! 😎🖤🥂

@zylaia.bsky.social
A glass of prosecco in front of a cinema screen saying Die Hard
December 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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writervh.bsky.social
A veritable Exterminatus of Black Library Authors descended upon Warhammer World today!

You may find that a few Black Library books in the store have now been signed ✍️
@notsosilentrobb.bsky.social @squintywitch.bsky.social @robertrath.bsky.social @noahvannguyen.bsky.social @johnfrench.bsky.social
Black Library Authors Rob Young, Jude Reid, Victoria Hayward, Rob Rath, Noah Nguyen, John French, Rich McCormick, Gav Thorpe, Jon Beer, Marc Collins, Mike Vincent, Robbie MacNiven and Mike Brooks
December 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
writervh.bsky.social
A veritable Exterminatus of Black Library Authors descended upon Warhammer World today!

You may find that a few Black Library books in the store have now been signed ✍️
@notsosilentrobb.bsky.social @squintywitch.bsky.social @robertrath.bsky.social @noahvannguyen.bsky.social @johnfrench.bsky.social
Black Library Authors Rob Young, Jude Reid, Victoria Hayward, Rob Rath, Noah Nguyen, John French, Rich McCormick, Gav Thorpe, Jon Beer, Marc Collins, Mike Vincent, Robbie MacNiven and Mike Brooks
December 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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jackalope1981.bsky.social
@writervh.bsky.social just finished Deathworlder. Congratulations, that's the first book that ever made me cry.
December 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
writervh.bsky.social
Happy 50th Birthday to Games Workshop! 💀🎉

Lovely retrospective in White Dwarf including staff memories & the fun detail behind the first ever store gaming table!

What's your earliest memory of GW?

Here are two of mine - my first miniature and my first ticket to Games Day from ~20 years ago! :-)
Tory holds a Games day coach ticket and a High Elf Archer
November 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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writervh.bsky.social
Hello! I'm Victoria & I write Warhammer stories 💀

If you'd like to hear about:
💀Writing for Black Library
💀Writing the first 100% consumption phase novel
💀Which is the most stylish Tyranid
💀Catachan poetry

Here's where you can hear more ⤵️
@arbitorian.bsky.social & @miramanga.bsky.social book club
DEATHWORLDER: Interview with author VICTORIA HAYWARD | Warhammer Book Club
YouTube video by Arbitor Ian
m.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
writervh.bsky.social
Hello! I'm Victoria & I write Warhammer stories 💀

If you'd like to hear about:
💀Writing for Black Library
💀Writing the first 100% consumption phase novel
💀Which is the most stylish Tyranid
💀Catachan poetry

Here's where you can hear more ⤵️
@arbitorian.bsky.social & @miramanga.bsky.social book club
DEATHWORLDER: Interview with author VICTORIA HAYWARD | Warhammer Book Club
YouTube video by Arbitor Ian
m.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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justinhillauthor.bsky.social
Hell's Last paperback, on sale today.

Cadia has fallen. Last to escape the hell that was the Thirteenth Black Crusade's destruction of their home world, the Cadian 101st are bloodied...

www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/m...

#MinkaLesk #CadiaStands #warhammer40k
www.warhammer.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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thetowerofstars.bsky.social
Last week I had the pleasure of popping in to the Super Relaxed Fantasy Club (@srfantasyclub.bsky.social ) for a reading and a Q&A.

Before that, I had to figure out the right pacing. You can now find the (no spoilers) alternate reading up on Youtube (link in reply).
November 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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notsosilentrobb.bsky.social
Master of Rites is up for pre-order next Saturday in limited edition, hardback, French and German editions!

I’m so incredibly proud of this book, and taking on the next step in Ferren’s story has been an honour - I can’t wait to see what people think of it.
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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writervh.bsky.social
Thank you for the review of my Warhammer 40K short story Nightsider Imperialis @goonhammer.com & @lenoongh.bsky.social!

It's in the Darkness Eternal Black Library anthology & features some of the characters from my novel Deathworlder.

So if you want more Adair, this is where you can find her;-) 🖤
Screengrab of Goonhammer review for the Games Workshop 40,000 anthology Darkness Eternal 'I really enjoyed this one. I like a good Catachan badass, I like the Kroot as enemies, I like anything dealing with the Imperium's population of abhumans and, most of all, I like well written and evocative landscapes and environments. They're all here, present and correct, giving us a kind of escort mission meets cannibal predator story where the good of the imperium comes from disobeying orders - which it always does when the Catachan are involved. There's a craft in a short story that's variably achieved in most Black Library collections, one of creating a world, stakes, characters and plot all within a page or two and then letting them play out - Hayward pulls it off and I think this is the other great story in Darkness Eternal.'
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
writervh.bsky.social
Thank you for the review of my Warhammer 40K short story Nightsider Imperialis @goonhammer.com & @lenoongh.bsky.social!

It's in the Darkness Eternal Black Library anthology & features some of the characters from my novel Deathworlder.

So if you want more Adair, this is where you can find her;-) 🖤
Screengrab of Goonhammer review for the Games Workshop 40,000 anthology Darkness Eternal 'I really enjoyed this one. I like a good Catachan badass, I like the Kroot as enemies, I like anything dealing with the Imperium's population of abhumans and, most of all, I like well written and evocative landscapes and environments. They're all here, present and correct, giving us a kind of escort mission meets cannibal predator story where the good of the imperium comes from disobeying orders - which it always does when the Catachan are involved. There's a craft in a short story that's variably achieved in most Black Library collections, one of creating a world, stakes, characters and plot all within a page or two and then letting them play out - Hayward pulls it off and I think this is the other great story in Darkness Eternal.'
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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writervh.bsky.social
Tank u for taking the time to review my stories! 🖤🙏

It is a much appreciated way of supporting authors and means a great deal - plus is of course a welcome motivator to hop into the ol' Black Library Rhino carpool to work and keep typing grim tales 💀
A black and white photo of Victoria outside Warhammer World with the car park Rhino and Space Marine
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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notsosilentrobb.bsky.social
Who’s that terrified person in the thumbnail? Oh wait, that’s me 😂

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Learn more about the upcoming novel Master of Rites in this video interview with the author. - Warhammer Community
Putting the Master of Rites through hell.
www.warhammer-community.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
writervh.bsky.social
Beautiful post just arrived from @decassette.bsky.social!

A reading treat to have for the dark nights now the winter is closing in 🖤
A photo of work by Linnea Sterte including a Gaeden of Spheres and Stages of Rot
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
writervh.bsky.social
Tank u for taking the time to review my stories! 🖤🙏

It is a much appreciated way of supporting authors and means a great deal - plus is of course a welcome motivator to hop into the ol' Black Library Rhino carpool to work and keep typing grim tales 💀
A black and white photo of Victoria outside Warhammer World with the car park Rhino and Space Marine
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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writervh.bsky.social
Ready to hammer Monday 💀🖤💪

📸 forges_of_ruin
A black and white photo of Tory brandishing a big hammer in front of the Warhammer World space marine statue and looking like she means hammer business
November 11, 2024 at 8:44 AM
writervh.bsky.social
Tbt a seasonal homage to our greatest living author, dreamweaver, visionary plus actor and the reason I NEVER use subtext in my own oeuvre (it is of course for cowards) 🙏🖤💀
Victoria is dressed as Garth Marenghi. She wears a dark wig and leather jacket plus purple tie. She is lit in green with a ram skull in front of her.
November 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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writervh.bsky.social
All of the Warhammer stories I've written!

When I wandered into my local Games Workshop store as a kid more than 20 years ago I'd never have believed I'd get the chance to do this!

It's so fun & there's just as much wonder in the great, grimdark world of Warhammer as when I first encountered it 🖤
A collection of Black Library books on a shelf including Death and Duty, Darkness Eternal, Emperor's Finest, Sanction and Sin, Deathworlder, Galaxy of Horrors, Once a Killer and Inferno Presents the Inquisition
November 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
writervh.bsky.social
All of the Warhammer stories I've written!

When I wandered into my local Games Workshop store as a kid more than 20 years ago I'd never have believed I'd get the chance to do this!

It's so fun & there's just as much wonder in the great, grimdark world of Warhammer as when I first encountered it 🖤
A collection of Black Library books on a shelf including Death and Duty, Darkness Eternal, Emperor's Finest, Sanction and Sin, Deathworlder, Galaxy of Horrors, Once a Killer and Inferno Presents the Inquisition
November 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM