Marc Gascoigne announcement

FIGHTING FANTASY

GAMEBOOKS

Fighting Fantasy Announces New Brand Manager

23 January 2025

Steve Jackson and Sir Ian Livingstone, the co-creators of Fighting Fantasy, have recruited Marc Gascoigne as Brand Manager of the bestselling gamebook series. The classic series of adventure gamebooks, which began in 1982 with The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, continues to thrive with new titles being published by Scholastic UK, together with digital and audio editions, role-playing and board games, miniatures, and a growing range of licensed merchandise.

With more than 20 million books sold in over 30 languages, Fighting Fantasy remains a truly global phenomenon. The series will be returning to US bookstores in mid-2025 with 10 titles being published by Steve Jackson Games Inc (run by the other Steve Jackson in the USA).

Marc will be supporting existing Fighting Fantasy licensees, as well as seeking out appropriate partners for new ventures. Long-time Fighting Fantasy fans will already be familiar with Marc’s work from the legendary sourcebooks Titan—the Fighting Fantasy World and the Fighting Fantasy monster collection Out of the Pit, the gamebook Battleblade Warrior, and two Fighting Fantasy novels. He was also the series’ consultant editor in the 1990s for Puffin Books, before building a career in fantasy fiction as publisher of Games Workshop’s Black Library range of Warhammer novels, and later with his own award winning imprint Angry Robot.

Sir Ian Livingstone said: “We are delighted to have Marc join us to further promote and build Fighting Fantasy worldwide. A respected expert of the genre, he will be an invaluable member of the Fighting Fantasy team. May his STAMINA never fail!”

About Fighting Fantasy

Fighting Fantasy has been a global publishing phenomenon ever since the launch of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Puffin Books in 1982. Part game, part book, it puts you, the reader, at the heart of the adventure as the hero in a challenging and thrilling branching narrative quest. Since its initial incredible success, the range of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks now runs to over seventy titles. The authors, Steve Jackson and Sir Ian Livingstone, are fantasy gaming legends, having founded Games Workshop, and both have enjoyed long careers in fantasy gamebooks, role-playing, and the video games industry. Having sold more than 20 million copies, Fighting Fantasy is currently enjoying a resurgence in popularity and is published in the UK by Scholastic, who regularly issue new adventures alongside reprints of classic titles. Fighting Fantasy gamebooks are also available in many other languages around the world.

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