LONDON, UK | 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 Warlockof 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!”
You can read the full press release here.
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