Meet BattleTech Authors

Ever wanted to meet some of the BattleTech writing team? Now’s your chance! Several of the writing team will be at UKGE and will be available on the booth 3-150 to sign your books and answer questions about how they got started writing BattleTech, and how you might join their merry band!

Current guests include:

Chris Hartford: 

Chris has played BattleTech since 1986 (which he bought at Games Workshop in Nottingham) and has been part of the writing team since 1991 after meeting Jordan Weisman and Ross Babcock in London.  

Over the last 35 years he has contributed to too many BattleTech products to count. He has written for FASA, WizKids, FanPro and Catalyst Game Labs, including sourcebooks, Shrapnel articles, short stories (in Fire for Effect, The Proliferation Cycle, Honor Code and Tales of the Bounty Hunter)  and a serialized novel, Fall from Grace. He is currently working on [REDACTED] and [REDACTED].

Daniel Isberner:

Daniel is a German novelist. He has written multiple novels for his own universes and dabbled in multiple shared universes. Battletech has been his long time favorite for more than 20 years and he has been working on it in different capacities for more than a decade.

His writing credits range from Technical Readouts through other sourcebooks and up to short stories, novellas and two novels.

His latest novel, Silent Assets, is now available and a new novella (Lethal Olympics) has been announced for May 27th.

He will be available to sign books and talk Battletech.

Lorcan Nagle:

Little did Lorcan Nagle realise that a fateful visit to the Virgin Megastore in Dublin at the tender age of eleven would lead to a life-long obsession with BattleTech. He's been involved with running BattleTech at Irish events since 1996, a community moderator for Catalyst since 2013, and more recently a writer.

He's been regularly contributing sourcebook articles and game material to Shrapnel magazine since issue 12 in 2023, with his first short story appearing in issue 20. He's also expanded into writing pilot cards, his work has been published in the Davion Cavalry Lance, released in 2025, and an upcoming forcepack that has not yet been formally announced 

If you want to bring books to get signed but don’t have anything appropriate in your collection yet, the following are available Print on Demand from Amazon, with contributions from the writers as noted below:

Honor Code (Chris)

Tales of The Bounty Hunter (Chris, Daniel) 

Silent Assets (Daniel) 

Proliferation Cycle(paperback)(hardback) (Chris)

Shrapnel #2 (Daniel) 

Shrapnel #3 (Daniel) 

Shrapnel #5 (Daniel) 

Shrapnel #6 (Daniel) 

Shrapnel #8 (Daniel) 

Shrapnel #9 (Daniel) 

Shrapnel #10 (Daniel) 

Shrapnel #12(Daniel, Lorcan) 

 Shrapnel #14 (Lorcan)

Shrapnel #15(Daniel, Lorcan) 

Shrapnel #17(Daniel, Lorcan) 

Shrapnel #18 (Lorcan)

Shrapnel #20(Lorcan) 

Shrapnel #22(Chris) 

Shrapnel #24(Chris, Daniel) 

Shrapnel: Gothic Special(Chris, Lorcan) 

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