Glenn Hammer asked Douglas Seacat:

How did you write for write for warmachine?

Douglas Seacat I got started writing for WARMACHINE back in Apotheosis, one of the early Mk I expansions. I had already been writing for Privateer Press for several years, mostly for the original roleplaying game. I got my start around the time of the 2nd book of the Witchfire Trilogy for the RPG, and was soon recruited into doing a lot of work for the main setting books. This was a great experience, getting a chance to collaborate with the other early pioneers on defining the Iron Kingdoms and its complex nations, religions, and its history. Since that time I've continued to be heavily involved in the Iron Kingdoms RPG, including its newer evolution.

I was writing fiction in the setting since the start, though we didn't have a good venue for narrative initially. We put a couple of short stories up on our website but didn't have a good home for such work until later, with the launch of No Quarter Magazine, and eventually Skull Island eXpeditions. However, I started to write full time for Privateer around 2006, with the upcoming launch of HORDES. A lot of the "metafiction" was done in the miniature game expansion book, and I was heavily involved with that since that time.

Blood of Kings was my first full novel in the setting, and it was very gratifying to work on, as well as being a distinctly different experience than the fragmented stories in the expansion books. In the aggregate those represent several novels worth of narrative, but sliced down into connected short stories and novellas. This was always a challenging puzzle.

Thanks for the question!

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