Triumff

Dan Abnett is a writer I’ve followed for years mostly through his work in comics. When I heard he had a novel coming out next month, I contacted him for an interview. The novel is Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero, the first installment in a three-book deal with Angry Robot Books. Set to go on sale on October 1, the book is described as: “Sir Rupert Triumff. Adventurer. Fighter. Drinker. Saviour? Pratchett goes swashbuckling in the hotly anticipated original fiction debut of the multi-million selling Warhammer star. Triumff is a ribald historical fantasy set in a warped clockwork-powered version of our present day ! a new Elizabethan age, not of Elizabeth II but in the style of the original Virgin Queen. Throughout its rollicking pages, Sir Rupert Triumff drinks, dines and duels his way into a new Brass Age of Exploration and Adventure.” My thanks to Abnett for his time and thoughts.

Tim O’Shea: How challenging was it to write this novel while also meeting your monthly writing commitments at Marvel and elsewhere?

Dan Abnett: “Triumff” has been in production for a long time, and this slow burn means that it’s fitted very nicely behind more pressing and urgent day-to-day jobs. Having said that, I do break my working day down into prose and comics: a chunk of the latest novel before lunch, and a batch of the next comic after. Obviously, sometimes really pressing deadlines throw that careful plan out of the window, but it worked well here.

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