About Robbie

Robbie MacNiven is a Scottish author and historian. His published fiction includes over a dozen novels, many fantasy or sci-fi works for IPs such as Marvel’s X-Men and Warhammer 40,000. He has also written two novellas, numerous short stories and audio dramas, has worked on narrative and character dialogue for multiple digital games (SMITE: Blitz and Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground), has written the colour text for multiple RPG rulebooks and has penned the scripts for two graphic novels and two comics, for Osprey Publishing and Commando Comics respectively. In 2022 his X-Men novel “First Team” won a Scribe Award.

On the non-fiction front, Robbie specialises in Early Modern military history, particularly focussing on the 18th century. He has a PhD in American Revolutionary War massacres from the University of Edinburgh – where he won the Compton Prize for American History – and an MLitt in War Studies from the University of Glasgow. Along with numerous articles for military history magazines he has written five books on different aspects of the American Revolutionary War, four for Osprey Publishing and one for Helion Books. He has also written the scripts for nine episodes of the hit YouTube educational channel Extra Credits.

Outside of work and writing, his passions include re-enacting and gaming. He is thirty-two years old, and prefers cats to dogs (though not by much).