chaplaingrabthar wrote:Is there any word about Nick Kyme's third Tomoe of Fire book, Nocturne? All I know is that it's slated for November. Was hoping there would be an extract or an image I could use as desktop wallpaper on the BL site. No dice.

BrookM wrote:The second Salamander novel has got to be the best Astartes novel penned by Kyme to date, period. There were some parts about two blue armoured fizzy dudes but for the most part it was about Salamanders beating seven shades of gak out of Dark Eldar while helping a Chapter hero. Still, can't wait until the third instalment hits us, it is shaping up into a nice trilogy.

Just Dave wrote:

BrookM wrote:The second Salamander novel has got to be the best Astartes novel penned by Kyme to date, period. There were some parts about two blue armoured fizzy dudes but for the most part it was about Salamanders beating seven shades of gak out of Dark Eldar while helping a Chapter hero. Still, can't wait until the third instalment hits us, it is shaping up into a nice trilogy.

Personally, I've been largely underwhelmed by the Salamanders novels; what the over-all storyline is getting at is interesting with the threat to the Chapter as a whole, but otherwise I've not really enjoyed the novels tbh. I think I'm partially not a fan of Kymes work for some reason or another as I haven't enjoyed his HH short stories either. I think I find the action scenes and characters fairly predictable tbh, but maybe that's just me...

Today we bring you a trailer for the final volume in Mike Lee's majestic Time of Legends: The Rise of Nagash trilogy. Nagash Immortal tells the tale of the Great Necromancer's war with the skaven and his eventual downfall and is available to preorder now.

reds8n wrote:

Today we bring you a trailer for the final volume in Mike Lee's majestic Time of Legends: The Rise of Nagash trilogy. Nagash Immortal tells the tale of the Great Necromancer's war with the skaven and his eventual downfall and is available to preorder now.

Gadge wrote:
Whats peoples opinion on Sigvlad? Not read anything by Hinks yet.

Alpharius wrote:

Just Dave wrote:

Personally, I've been largely underwhelmed by the Salamanders novels; what the over-all storyline is getting at is interesting with the threat to the Chapter as a whole, but otherwise I've not really enjoyed the novels tbh. I think I'm partially not a fan of Kymes work for some reason or another as I haven't enjoyed his HH short stories either. I think I find the action scenes and characters fairly predictable tbh, but maybe that's just me...

Same here, actually.

It might just be the overuse of names with apostrophes in them, or the nonstop pauldron thing...

Fear Incarnate



It’s a Nostraman themed Blog post today, as we celebrate the impending re-launch of ‘Lord of the Night’ as a print on demand book. As with all print on demand range, Lord of the Night will be exclusively available right here at BlackLibrary.com.



Set on the sunless world of Equixus, Lord of the Night follows the bloody progress of Commander Sahaal, exiled for ten thousand years, as he plots to his vengeance against his treacherous rival Acerbus. Sahaal must recover a lost artefact that was stolen from him and take back command of his dark army.



If you can’t wait for some Night Lords action, Aaron Dembski-Bowden’s Night lords series is available to buy now, including the audio drama Throne of Lies, listen to an extract here.



Lord of night will be available from this Friday, so be sure you to swing back then and get your copy.

I still have an email in my inbox from my editor, asking “Why didn’t you reference X in your novel?”

I also have my reply. It says, quite simply, “Because X sucks, and so does the guy who wrote it.”

The Black Library office is a buzz of Warhammer related excitement to the moment, brought about by the magical storm clouds circling across the Old World, and parts of Nottingham. To celebrate the Impending Warhammer expansion Storm of Magic, we will be releasing 3 limited edition novellas, starting with Razumov’s Tomb by (Gemmell Award winner) Darius Hinks. We spoke to the editor Graeme Lyon, to find out more:



The Storm of Magic is here! As a Warhammer player, I’m tremendously excited about the forthcoming expansion (so many monsters!), so when I heard that we were doing tie-in books, I jumped at the chance to be involved. The idea was to tell three different stories by three different authors, all of them linked by the common threads that are to be found in the Storm of Magic game.

To this end, each of the tales revolves around the events that occur when the Winds of Magic blow out of control – arcane fulcrums erupt from the ground, monsters fill the sky and wizards find themselves imbued with incredible power. However, it was also important that each story should have its own style. The three authors for the series were carefully chosen to help achieve this.

Darius Hinks is great at extremely mad stuff, and his tale – Razumov’s Tomb – embodies the ultimate weirdness of the Warhammer World perfectly, being packed with completely mental things – a wizard with transparent skin, flocks of dark pegasi and a flying town being attacked by Tomb Kings, for example.

Chris Wraight, meanwhile, focuses on two elven heroes vying to become the next Phoenix King. And a lot of dragons. No, really, a lot of dragons. It ends with possibly the biggest and most insane battle ever to appear in a Warhammer novel. And, seriously, a lot of dragons.

C.L. Werner’s idea for a skaven necromancer fits the Storm of Magic idea perfectly. The Hour of Shadows is full of undead skaven, battle under the eaves of Athel Loren and the best use of skaven magic ever. Also, there’s a cockatrice fighting flocks of warhawks and a treeman, and if that’s not awesome, I don’t know what is.

I’m really proud of these books. I think that they embody everything that’s great about Warhammer. Each one is worth reading, and I think you’ll get a lot out of them if you read all three. I can’t wait to see what people think of them.

Graeme

Thanks, Graeme! Razumov’s Tomb is out now, Dragonmage is available to preorder Here, and The Hour of Shadows is coming in August, so remember to set your reminder.

reds8n wrote:

That said I loved his Warrior Priest book and think it was fully deserving of its award. And I'm only about halfway, ther's a few various plots in the mix and things have, possibly, taken a turn for the better.

reds8n wrote:

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Blog/Storm-of-Magic-chat-with-the-editor.html

We’ve got a great little exclusive for you today. Following on from the exciting re-release of Lord of the Night last Friday, we can reveal the artwork for Aaron Dembski-Bowden’s next Night Lords novel, Void Stalker:

This piece, by Jon Sullivan, has to rate as one of the most impressive pictures of a Chaos Space Marine to date.

Aaron’s book will be out next year (it would be out sooner, but he’s busy getting married; sorry, ladies). In the meantime, If you’ve yet to read the first two books in the Night Lords series, you’ve got plenty of time to catch up. Both Soul Hunter and Blood Reaver are available here.

Later this week, we’ll have even more new artwork for upcoming books, so be sure to check back on this blog on Wednesday for that. And tomorrow we’ll have an exclusive extract from a forthcoming novel...

A brief glimpse of Salvation


There was some excitement in the office yesterday when the first printed copies of Salvation’s Reach, Dan Abnett’s eagerly anticipated new Gaunt’s Ghosts novel, arrived.

To whet your appetites a little more, here is a brand new extract, introducing some new characters to the series:



"To the left of them, a row of tall windows looked out onto the Anzimar Landing Fields. Lighters and transports hove in through the morning smog towards the main rockcrete aprons. Vendetta gunships roosted like hawks on the sky shield platforms that sprouted around the defence work of the field perimeter like a wreath. Gaunt saw the ship, the armoured ship, out on its own at one corner of the apron, re-entry heat still fuming off its hull in the damp air. The field crews were keeping a respectful distance. It was an Imperial machine, but it wasn’t a pattern used by the Guard or the Navy.

Another set of doors smashed open. Ahead of them lay the entrance to the audience hall. Gilded doors, four times the height of a man, wrought with bas relief lions and carnodons, eagles and angels. Angels of death.

Appropriate, thought Ibram Gaunt.

It was the first set of doors they had come to that Cybon hadn’t smashed open as if he was conducting an insertion raid. He and Mercure simply halted. After a half-second for the cue to sink in, Hark and Edur stepped around them, and opened the doors.

The room beyond the doors was vast, stone flagged and dressed with tall, stained-glass windows that turned the light into autumnal colours. High, clerestory levels stole more daylight from above the morning smog, and shed it down in silver beams between dark vault arches. A giant brass aquila had been inlaid into the centre of the floor.

Three figures awaited them under the chamber’s largest window, a vast roundel rendering the Golden Throne in multicoloured glass.

One sat on a wooden bench seat, brooding. The second had his back to the door, gazing up at the stained glass vision. The third loitered nearby, examining some food and drink that had been presented on a small table. It was hard to tell whether the third figure was debating if he was in need of refreshment, or simply puzzling as to what food was for.

All three were male, but none of them were men. None of them were even slightly men.

‘Holy Terra,’ whispered Ludd.

‘That’s the general idea,’ muttered Hark."





Sorry, we’re being terrible teases and leaving it there for now. Who are Gaunt and his fellow commissars rushing to meet? Find out when Salvation’s Reach goes on sale in September. If you’re new to the series, you can catch up with handy omnibus editions, available here, or eBooks of the entire series to date, available to read on your mobile device of choice. See you tomorrow for more exclusive peeks at new artwork