Graham McNeill

A writer for the Black Library.

Not Dan Abnett, but forms the Holy Trinity of Black Library writers with him and Sandy Mitchell, (Which makes ADB the holy child or something)

Wrote the Ultramarines novels and some Iron Warriors shit. When he's writing them, the Ultramarines are not just tolerable but actually awesome.

He's also written several Horus Heresy books, including A Thousand Sons, the first Black Library book to hit the New York Times Bestseller list, the infamous short story The Last Church. On the other hand, he did write The Reflection Crack'd, which had Fabius Bile rape Fulgrim with an iron rod. So fail there. Oh, and Codex: Black Templars.

He also wrote the Time of Legend: Sigmar novels, the third novel of which gives a brief preview of the origin story of Morkar the Uniter. Very nice Mr McNeill, now write that story.

McNeill's writing style is very 'tell, don't show.' His books tend to have characters deliver their lines in uninterrupted chunks with minimal indication of what's going on around them, and very flat emotional inflection in dialogue.

On the other hand, his stories have a wealth of background information and detail, and his few character driven stories are very good as well (read Priests of Mars).

Priest of Mars also makes rape camps canon, just though you would like to know (able they're heretical).

Differences with Matt Ward

Oh who gives a shit. Grow up and stop making everything about one under-talented guy.