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547. Ian Livingstone on Games Workshop and Fighting Fantasy

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

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How I Built a Company Based on a Role-Playing Game

We could not keep up with the demand because we were running games workshop during the day which was a growing business. Penguin or their Puffin brand were now completely full on in understanding that they had a kind of international global hit franchise on their hands so they were demanding all books. We got guest authors in so we would see a synopsis and prove the synopsis and let the authors write theirs to which you just mentionedSo that's how we satisfied the demand but yeah because workshop was growing really crazy I mean in the early days it was a tiny business.

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