Black Library News & Rumours Thread II, aka Rise of the Bibliophile

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**Kanluwen**

Pyroriffic wrote:Thought any of you BL fans going to GDUK would be interested to see this:

What you can buy at Games Day from the Black Library.

Congratulations you!

**Pyroriffic**

Kanluwen wrote:
Pyroriffic wrote:Thought any of you BL fans going to GDUK would be interested to see this:

What you can buy at Games Day from the Black Library.

Congratulations you!

Thank you very much.

**BrookM**

Hmm, now to find a ~~mule~~, erm, generous soul who would bring a few items along for payment.

**Begel Dverl**

Pyroriffic wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:
Pyroriffic wrote:Thought any of you BL fans going to GDUK would be interested to see this:

What you can buy at Games Day from the Black Library.

Congratulations you!

Thank you very much.

Aren't you a BL author?

**Pyroriffic**

Begel Dverl wrote:Aren't you a BL author?

Guilty as charged.

**lords2001**

Will the same apply to GD Aus? Because I want... well... most of those listed. And by most, I mean those I don't own already.

**Pacific**

That's a wonderful piece of customer service by Black Library. I think the main company branch could learn something from it.

Anyway!

This update just on the artwork for the new ADB Audio Drama 'Butcher's Nails'

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Blog/Blood-There-was-too-much-blood.html

And the bloody awesome cover artwork from Neil Roberts

**Kanluwen**

Well isn't he just a big cuddlebunny.

**H.B.M.C.**

lords2001 wrote:Will the same apply to GD Aus? Because I want... well... most of those listed. And by most, I mean those I don't own already.

Maybe, if you're lucky, you'll get the 'Special Gamesday Price' like all the Forge World stuff at GDOZ.

**Azreal13**

Just announced, Aurelian will be back on sale next month, extra 3000 Silver Edition copies (not signed, plus few other differences) for £20.

Plus FREE UPS shipping on both Gold (original, signed, etc) and Silver Editions.

Well done BL!!

**Deathly Angel**

azreal13 wrote:Just announced, Aurelian will be back on sale next month, extra 3000 Silver Edition copies (not signed, plus few other differences) for £20.

Plus FREE UPS shipping on both Gold (original, signed, etc) and Silver Editions.

Well done BL!!

Well good to see we can get a copy for a reasonable price, at least more so than the $90 gold edition.

Hang on, won't this be rather unfair to those who already ordered the gold edition? This seems like a pretty dirty marketing technique on BLs part... Tell your consumers that there will only be 3000 copies wordwide for at least two years, charge an insane price for it, and once the orders have been made proceed to announce that now they are selling another 3000 copies for less than half the price as a silver edition? I have just the smallest suspicion that the BL just tried to cheat some of us for our money...

EDIT: May have had a bit of a rage there; Aussie pricing is actually $70, and having properly read BLs announcement it's clear that this was an aciton of good customer service, I apologise to any antagonism toward BL... And thanks for the info azrael!

**Azreal13**

I'm sure those who felt badly about it could cancel their order, I would expect BL to refund shipping on orders too.

Besides, I think only 200 or so were actually successfully sold due to the website breaking.

**reds8n**

Free shipping and two new eBooks
Starting today, we are offering free standard shipping on all our products, to all customers anywhere in the world (unfortunately, the Ramilies star fort pictured in the banner above will not be used to deliver your order).

Free shipping will run until the 18th of October, and is a great opportunity for you to pick up some web-excusive books, not available in stores, on which you would normally have to pay postage. Our new Warhammer 40,000 gamebook, Hive of the Dead, would be a good choice, or the award-winning graphic novel Daemonifuge, or perhaps the collectable artbook Inquis Exterminatus. Free shipping applies to all our products, whether it’s a Horus Heresy poster or a preorder for Salvation’s Reach.

As usual, Friday is new eBook day, and today we have two brand new Ben Counter titles up for preorder.

Endeavour of Will is the first ever Space Marine Battles novella, and sees everyone’s favourite yellow-clad, hammer-wielding superhuman – Captain Darnath Lysander of the Imperial Fists – battling to save not one, but two Ramilies star forts from the devious machinations of the Iron Warriors. There are three more novellas to come over the next few months, by Sarah Cawkwell, John French and Darius Hinks, which will be collected next year in the Architect of Fate paperback, but will all be exclusively available as eBook downloads first, only from blacklibrary.com.

Phalanx is the action-packed finale to the Soul Drinkers series, where the tainted Space Marine Chapter stands trial for their heresies. Phalanx will be available exclusively as an eBook for four months before it is released as a paperback novel.

**reds8n**

Mr. Abnett on Inquistional type things.

**KamikazeCanuck**

I guess the Bequin trilogy will be in 1st person. I hate 1st person personally.

**Ozymandias**

Was Ravenor in 1st person? For some reason I don't remember it being in 1st person...

**KamikazeCanuck**

Half of it was.

**BrookM**

Not half, but parts, most of the story was told through the operatives.

**narked**

Though I suspect most of you attending Gamesday were planning on picking a copy up anyway, I can strongly recommend getting The Gildar Rift. Just finished reading the copy I managed to get my grubby hands on and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Now to make a start on Nocturne!

**reds8n**

SARAH AND DARIUS TALK SPACE MARINE BATTLES

Endeavour of Will, the new eBook by Ben Counter, is now available for preorder. This is something a bit new from Black Library: the first novella in the Space Marines Battles miniseries, Architect of Fate. These novellas will be released as eBooks over the next few months and then collected together in a paperback anthology early next year.

We caught up with two of the authors who have contributed to this great miniseries: Darius Hinks, who wrote ‘Sanctus’, and Sarah Cawkwell, writer of ‘Accursed Eternity’, to talk about what we can look forward to in the rest of the collection.

What’s your novella about?
Sarah: Accursed Eternity features two Space Marine Chapters, the Star Dragons and the Blood Swords, as they are called in by the Inquisition to investigate a daemon ship that has been sighted on the edges of the Eye of Terror. The ship was never going to be a nice place, but even the Space Marines aren't quite prepared for what occurs. Not to mention what the inquisitor comes to discover.

To all intents and purposes, it's a bit of a Warhammer 40,000 horror story. And it doesn't end prettily.

Darius: ‘Sanctus’ describes the final hours of a world named Ilissus, a charred ruin located right on the borders of the Eye of Terror. Various mysterious parties have an interest in this doomed world, but the novella focuses on a squad of Relictors Space Marines. They’re aware that the planet is beyond saving, but the future of their whole Chapter is hanging in the balance and this desperate mission could be their last chance to avoid being labelled as traitors. As the clock ticks towards Exterminatus, the Relictors land on Ilissus, but as the bombs start to fall they discover that they have even more enemies than they realised.

What was it like writing a novella as part of a wider Space Marine Battles storyline?
Darius: Working on the Architect of Fate project was mostly fun, but John, Sarah and Ben insisted that, as a newcomer to Space Marine fiction, I had to give them my lunch money every day and hold their laptops for them while they wrote. A bit harsh, I thought, but they assured me it’s quite normal.

Sarah: Writing something novella-length is actually an interesting challenge. I kept finding myself wishing I had more space to expand on some of the story!

It was a great exercise. My story and John French's, in particular, have a number of connective ties and it was a lot of fun to ‘back-and-forth’ at the early brainstorming stage with him, working out how we could maintain that continuity without it being too obvious. I think we achieved subtlety.

At no point were hot dogs involved. If you want further clarification, you'll have to ask him. I can't possibly comment.

Thanks guys.

The first novella in the Architect of Fate series is available to order now, and features the Imperial Fists and Iron Warriors, continuing their 10,000 year old game of ‘Who’s the King of the Castle’.

Your first chance to get your hands on Architect of Fate as a paperback anthology will be at Black Library Live! 2012 in Warhammer World. You’d better hurry though: there are less than one hundred tickets left and they are selling fast.

Roll on Bl Live! then I guess.

**Alpharius**

I like the Relictors Chapter quite a bit - I am interested to see how this one plays out!

As always, thanks for the updates red!

**Pacific**

I thought that the Relictors had been practically destroyed in the background? There was a story in WD some years ago (during a feature on the army, there was an example of which by one of the studio guys) where their homebase was being overrun by the Inquisition..

**Alpharius**

And then GW went and sort of reset the clock in 5th edition, so, who knows?

**reds8n**

There's also a Relictor in Atlas Inferno, would indeed seem that they have taken a bit of a kicking as of "now" in the 40K setting.

There's still a few knocking around here and I reckon.

Outcast Dead is proving to be a most enjoyable read indeed.

BL have also just, literally, unveiled the following

http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/hammer-and-bolter-year-one-ebook.html

Hammer & Bolter is Black Library’s monthly fiction magazine. Each issue is packed with all-new short stories, serialised novels, interviews, previews and more

This issue collects the entire first year of Hammer and Bolter, including 36 short stories from the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000, the serialised novel Phalanx plus extracts and interviews.

This is the largest eBook we have ever produced.

Order this compilation now and save 20% over buying each issue individually.

which seems good value to me.

They've also released some more details about what they'll be doing at GD : Uk this Sunday

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Blog/Three-sleeps-until-Games-Day-UK.html

all of which sounds great to me. Can't wait !

**dantay_xv**

I just got told by the Gw store that I am travelling with, that if I buy my books tomorrow from the store (not limitted edition books) and get the receipt, I can jump the queue to get my books autographed at Games Day...... happy days!!

Still gonna try to land a few books at Games Day though!!!

**Alpharius**

reds8n wrote: There's also a Relictor in Atlas Inferno, would indeed seem that they have taken a bit of a kicking as of "now" in the 40K setting.

There's still a few knocking around here and I reckon.

I did forget about that one - which is sad since I only recently finished ATLAS INFERNAL too!

So, it would seem that in the BL version of 40K, the Relictors are in serious trouble, and in the GW 5th Ed. version of 40K, they are being 'closely watched'...

**dantay_xv**

the last i remembered hearing of the relictors is that they were under intense scrutiny by the Inquisition because of their penchant for using the weapons of Chaos to fight against Chaos. The Inquisistion fearing that they would become tainted were monitoring them.
The last I heard they were fighting the Orks on Armageddon near temple complexes erected around the 1st war of Armageddon. They seemed to be fighting accorsing to their own mission objectives and ignoring calls from other Imperium forces. Pee ing off a lot of people who wanted them held to account.
Rumour is they were looking for a Khornate artifact left by Angron.

Maybe that has been continued on and why they are in such deep doo-doo within recent BL literature.

**KamikazeCanuck**

reds8n wrote: There's also a Relictor in Atlas Inferno, would indeed seem that they have taken a bit of a kicking as of "now" in the 40K setting.

There's still a few knocking around here and I reckon.

Outcast Dead is proving to be a most enjoyable read indeed.

BL have also just, literally, unveiled the following

http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/hammer-and-bolter-year-one-ebook.html

Hammer & Bolter is Black Library’s monthly fiction magazine. Each issue is packed with all-new short stories, serialised novels, interviews, previews and more

This issue collects the entire first year of Hammer and Bolter, including 36 short stories from the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000, the serialised novel Phalanx plus extracts and interviews.

This is the largest eBook we have ever produced.

Order this compilation now and save 20% over buying each issue individually.

which seems good value to me.

They've also released some more details about what they'll be doing at GD : Uk this Sunday

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Blog/Three-sleeps-until-Games-Day-UK.html

all of which sounds great to me. Can't wait !

That would be cool if they released that in non-e-book form.

**reds8n**

They might one day, but don't hold your breath.

Righto, despite BL, shockingly, letting their customers know what's coming out and generally interacting with their customers in a positive manner ( it'll never catch on ) there was still some news and rumours from GD UK

2 more Garro and Co. audio dramas to follow, 1 of which should show how he and Varren

Spoiler:

met and "teamed up".

Carneus and Calgar audio book by Mamzel Cawkwell.

Kharn the Betrayer audio book as well.

Can't wait for the sound effects for that one.

Gordon Rennie is to return and do..err.

... something with Blood Angels.

EDIT : elsewhere suggest this is an audiobook which ties into the old Bloodquest series !

More Ravenguard stuff planned as well.

Quick chat with Mr. Wraight has me very impatient for his Iron Hands novel, GW do seem to like giving him the unlike-able bastard characters to write. Victim of his own success here one would suggest.

His Huss book should be very good too, if the example/short story in the GD collector's book is any indication.

Mr. Dembski-Bowden's GK novel -- " The Emperor's Gift" -- will have a simultaneous audio format release. They seem keen to roll this dual format release out across the entire line.

..well.. of the bigger series/books anyway.

**CajunMan**

I dunno if anyone else listened to Dan's Horus Heresy video part 2, but......250 THOUSAND Ultramarines during the heresy!?! 200k of which were at Calth, while the Word Bearers had about 60,000, but were augmented with Daemons and cultists...This going to be quite the battle...."Bolter porn" indeed!