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Friday 30th of December, 2011
Get ready for 2012
2011 is nearly over. We do hope that you’ve had a good year. You should certainly have had enough to read! In the last year we’ve released: Over 300 eBooks Over 50 books More than two days worth of audio products And there are no plans to slow down anytime soon. Next year you can expect plenty more great fiction from the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000. In fact, the first release of 2012 is only one week away. Catechism of Hate is the latest collectors edition novella, and the first in the Space Marine Battles series.Over 300 eBooks Over 50 books More than two days worth of audio products And there are no plans to slow down anytime soon. Next year you can expect plenty more great fiction from the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000.
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Wednesday 28th of December, 2011
A Festive Extract
Isn’t the festive season grand? We’re all stuffed with food, the presents have been opened and we have loads of new Black Library books to read (also loads of socks for some reason). Did you get any Black Library books for Christmas? Let us know on Facebook.
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Sunday 25th of December, 2011
A Christmas treat
Merry Christmas! Good tidings all. Have you been following the Black Library advent calendar? Each day we’ve been revealing another section of a brand new Horus Heresy artwork, and now we can show you the full image.
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Friday 23rd of December, 2011
Festive news: new eBundle
A month ago we released our Christmas eBundles, full collections of the most popular Black Library series collected together into one easy download. These digital bundles have been flying off their digital shelves, and have proved so popular that we’ll be releasing even more of them in the New Year.
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Thursday 22nd of December, 2011
2011's must reads
Christmas is nearly upon us and the year is nearly done. Here in the office, we’ve been looking back on 2011 and considering what we enjoyed most about the year. The answer, of course, is mostly cake. But also books and audio dramas. Here, in no particular order, are some of our favourites from 2011:
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Wednesday 21st of December, 2011
Art of Catechisms
While it is a limited edition novella, Catechism of Hate is part of the Space Marine Battles series, and so it has the usual features of those books, such as full-colour maps by Black Library’s design supremo Adrian Wood. Here’s a sneak preview.
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Tuesday 20th of December, 2011
Double (headed) dragon
It’s a well known adage that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. But how could this book not rock your socks off? It’s got a two-headed dragon on the front!
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Monday 19th of December, 2011
Know No Fear
We know you’ve been looking forward to this book. Well the wait is almost over. In only a few months, war will come to Calth, when the author of Horus Rising returns with the most anticipated novel of 2012: Know No Fear. Here is an extract from Dan Abnett’s newest masterpiece
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Friday 16th of December, 2011
What are you doing on the 3rd of November next year?
The correct answer is attending the biggest Black Library’s event ever!
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Thursday 15th of December, 2011
Hate the Alien
On Monday we talked to Gav Thorpe about his new limited edition novella, Catechism of Hate, and he was effusive about Chaplain Cassius’s role as a legendary warrior. He’s clearly right, as this extract proves:
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Wednesday 14th of December, 2011
The Great Betray-art
Black Library cover artist Jon Sullivan works at a frankly alarming rate. As well as the many covers he produces for the Space Marine Battles series, he also creates the majority of the stunning artwork for the Time of Legends novels like this brand new art for the first book in the War of Vengeance series, The Great Betrayal.
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Tuesday 13th of December, 2011
From the Labyrinth
Life is tough if you’re a Chaos cultist: Chaos Space Marines boss you around, daemons wait to devour your soul and your body will inevitably become a festering carrier of warp-spawned contagion. As if that wasn’t bad enough, now you have to fight lightning claw-wielding, 7 foot-tall, genetically enhanced post-human space ninjas. It’s almost like the Chaos cultists in George Mann’s new audio drama, Labyrinth of Sorrows, didn’t listen to the first instalment in the series. If they had, they would know that to face the Raven Guard is a good way to get yourself eviscerated.
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Monday 12th of December, 2011
The catechist
You might remember that a few weeks ago that we brought you an interview with Gav Thorpe. You might also remember that the interview was rudely interrupted by the Emperor’s Holy Inquisition just as Gav was about to spill the beans on his new limited edition novella. Well, on Friday we announced Catechism of Hate, and with the cat(echism) now firmly out of the bag, Gav can finally reveal everything you need to know about this new Ultramarines title.
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Friday 9th of December, 2011
Catechism of Hate
The hallowed ranks of Black Library limited edition novellas will soon have a new addition. Catechism of Hate is set to join other coveted titles like Aurelian, Iron Warrior and The Bloody Handed when it is released on the 6th of January 6pm (GMT).
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Thursday 8th of December, 2011
Hammer Time
It’s a bad idea to mess with a guy who wields a five foot-long glowing magical hammer. Maybe someone should have told this orc.
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Wednesday 7th of December, 2011
Vampires have gone soft
Vampires have gone soft. It seems like nowadays they’re as likely to sweep you off your feet in a gesture of undying love as they are to drain your frail human form of arterial fluid. If you like your vampires to be predatory creatures of the night rather than pallid, twinkling romantics, fear not. Actually, be afraid, because on Friday you’ll be able to order the massive new Vampires omnibus, packed with grisly vampire tales to really sink your teeth into.
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Tuesday 6th of December, 2011
Have you heard about the word?
Have you heard about the word? No, not that one, the other one, the word of Lorgar: primarch of the Word Bearers. Following our extract from Word Bearers: The Omnibus yesterday, we tracked down Dark Apostle and author Anthony Reynolds, to give us the inside scoop on the closest thing to the Book of Lorgar this side of the 31st Millennium.
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Monday 5th of December, 2011
Burias tormented
The sleigh is loaded up heavier than a battlewagon full of orks, the reindeer are pacing like maddened rhinoxen, and Santa’s sack is stuffed full of next month’s Black Library new releases ready to go out just in time for Christmas.
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Friday 2nd of December, 2011
Free shipping is back!
Free shipping is back! That’s right folks; grab yourself any Black Library products you like, and as long as the order comes to over £10 (or $15 USD,€12 EUR, $16 CAD, $22 AUD for those of you in foreign lands) you can have it shipped out to anywhere in the world without paying a penny (or cent, or... you know what I mean) in postage.
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Thursday 1st of December, 2011
A damned good book
Space Marines are pretty scary, aren’t they? Eight feet tall, clad in nigh-impenetrable armour and able to punch a man’s head off with a single blow. So imagine how terrifying something would have to be to scare a Space Marine. Seriously, take a moment and think about it. I’ll wait here. Done? Okay, if you came up with another Space Marine, wreathed in flame, his armour decorated with bones, then you’re thinking along the same lines as Rob Sanders. Witness this section from his forthcoming Space Marine Battles novel, Legion of the Damned, in which one of the characters, injured during the Feast of Blades (like a Space Marine tea party, but with less tea and more chainswords), dreams of such a spectre…
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Wednesday 30th of November, 2011
Iron Men
It’s not often you feel sympathy for a transdimensional manifestation of mankind’s darkest desires, bIron Menut it’s hard not to feel a little bit sorry for these daemonettes.
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Tuesday 29th of November, 2011
The sound of a Galaxy in Flames
Here’s a short clip featuring Lucius, master swordsman of the Emperor’s Children, chopping up the elite bodyguard of the traitor governor of Isstvan.
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Monday 28th of November, 2011
The Inquisition: an interview With Graham McNeill
A group of Space Marines breaking out of a jail that makes Alcatraz look like a well fortified sandcastle, and escaping with a message that will doom and/or save mankind… If that isn’t awesome, call me a heretic. I’m sure many of you have already eagerly read The Outcast Dead, the seventeenth instalment in the Horus Heresy series (and if you haven’t, I’d add it to your Christmas list pronto). We caught up with author Graham McNeill, to chat about writing in the epoch-shattering times of the Horus Heresy, as well as a couple of other projects on the horizon.
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Friday 25th of November, 2011
An Interview with Gav
We’ve heard a lot about Gav Thorpe this week. On Monday we showed a trailer for his new Horus Heresy novel. An extract from one of his Age of Legend tales appeared on Tuesday, Wednesday brought you the artwork for his next Path of the Eldar novel. We thought it was about time we heard from the man himself. We prised him away from his typewriter for long enough to bring you this interview.
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Thursday 24th of November, 2011
Hero of the Imperium
Most of the heroes in Warhammer 40,000 novels are noble individuals, superhumans and mighty psykers whose bravery and valour humbles the common man of the Imperium. There are a few exceptions...
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Wednesday 23rd of November, 2011
Outcast
It’s time once again to show some fantastic new artwork, and today we return to Craftworld Alaitoc and the cover of Gav Thorpe’s forthcoming Path of the Outcast. Like the first two books in the series, this is by Neil Roberts and focuses on one of the characters from the series, in this case the eponymous outcast Aradryan.
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Tuesday 22nd of November, 2011
The Man, The Legend
Gav Thorpe writes with a speed that a genhanced, eight-armed servo-typist would find it hard to match.
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Monday 21st of November, 2011
Deliverance
The Isstvan landings didn’t go very well for the Raven Guard. They got what is commonly referred to as a ‘right good kicking’. Gav Thorpe’s new Horus Heresy novel Deliverance Lost picks up the story as the depleted Legion flees from the dropsite massacre and back to Terra. As any seasoned Horus Heresy can probably guess, their getaway does not quite go to plan... Quite a lot has happened in the seventeen novels in the Horus Heresy series so far, so here’s a short trailer to bring you up to speed before Deliverance Lost:
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Friday 18th of November, 2011
from the hallowed libraries in the Temple of Hera
We have three new eBooks for you this Friday, brought to you straight from the hallowed libraries in the Temple of Hera. The three eShorts, available separately for the first time, feature Ultramarines Captain Uriel Ventris battling against a variety of foes across the Imperium. We caught up with Ultramarines author (and honorary son of Macragge) Graham McNeill to chat about the creation of one of Black Library’s most enduring characters.
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Thursday 17th of November, 2011
Authors announced for Black library Live
It’s only 37 sleeps until Christmas, but here at Black Library we’re counting towards an even more exciting event: Black Library Live! 2012 (69 sleeps, just in case you were wondering).
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Wednesday 16th of November, 2011
Where Angels Fear
Last week, our Facebook fans voted on which Space Marine Chapter they would rather see new artwork for: Blood Angels or Dark Angels. The Dark Angels won and we showed you the cover for forthcoming audio drama Malediction. Today, you get the other piece, and, well, see for yourself.
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Tuesday 15th of November, 2011
Eisen-Thorn
In last month’s extract from ‘Master Imus’s Transgression’ we saw two men sat in chairs talking. Today’s extract features only one man in a chair... but his chair floats, and comes with an attached psycannon (no fair – my chair doesn’t even have a cup holder.)
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Monday 14th of November, 2011
The plot thickens...
Today on the blog: an extract from the upcoming Horus Heresy novel, Deliverance Lost. We gave our Facebook followers the choice of which extract they wanted to read. Your options were: the Primarch Alpharius, scheming with Horus aboard the Vengeful Spirit; or Corax of the Raven Guard facing down a full squad of the Emperor’s Custodians. The vote was as close-fought as the Siege of Terra itself, but in the end, you opted to read about Alpharius and Horus:
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Friday 11th of November, 2011
eBundles of Joy
eReaders everywhere are about to get a massive dose of action and carnage – from today, you can download twelve of the most popular Black Library series as a digital eBundles. It’s never been easier to convert your collection of Black Library books into digital format. These bundles collect together every eBook, audio drama and audiobook from a series, and package it in a single, easy-to-download collection.
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Thursday 10th of November, 2011
Top five must read short stories
We’ve got some new eBooks for you this Thursday... Woah, what’s going on, it isn’t Friday! Friday is new eBook Day! My entire perception of reality has turned upside-down. That’s because this Friday we have something even bigger for you, but we didn’t want you to miss your weekly dose of eBook action.
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Wednesday 9th of November, 2011
The votes are in.
We asked you to choose which angels of death you wanted to see on the blog today. After a close run vote, the winner is Malediction, the Dark Angels audio drama by author C.Z. Dunn.
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Tuesday 8th of November, 2011
It came from the sewers...
A few weeks ago, C.L. Werner talked on the blog about his obsession with all things verminous, and he mentioned that he was working on a new novel involving the foul ratmen, a Time of Legends tome detailing the events of the Black Plague. Well, we sent a team of elite gutter runners into Werner’s secret underground lair, and they escaped with a short excerpt from the first volume, titled Dead Winter. Many skaven died to bring you this extract...
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Monday 7th of November, 2011
Wanted:Kal Jerico - Reward: 1200 guilder credits
The laspistol-toting, charismatic hit man is the star of the latest Black Library Direct Exclusive anthology. The Complete Kal Jerico collects together every novel and graphic novel featuring the lovable rogue into one massive 654-page tome.
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Friday 4th of November, 2011
Killer Reads
Do you like reading about entire planets being blasted apart in cataclysmic firestoms of destruction? If you don’t, you might be on the wrong webpage, but if you do, you’re in luck.
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Thursday 3rd of November, 2011
If You Go Down To The Woods Today...
...you’re sure of some fantastic artwork. Okay, maybe not always, unless you happen across a friendly painter, but today you get the cover art for The Vaults of Winter, the first volume in Darius Hinks’s forthcoming trilogy about Orion, King of the Woods.
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Wednesday 2nd of November, 2011
Blood of Aenarion trailer
Blood of Aenarion now available to preorder. After an eight-year break, William King is back at the helm of an epic new trilogy about Tyrion and Teclis, so we thought we’d share our excitement with you through the time-honoured medium of a video trailer, introducing the setting and showing off the awesome cover art from the next two novels in the series.
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Tuesday 1st of November, 2011
The dark eldar are coming. They want to eat your soul.
Run. No, wait, come back. I’m only joking; your soul is safe. But the dark eldar are coming, in Path of the Renegade, a novel by Andy Chambers focusing on a group of Commorraghan rebels seeking to end the rule of the Overlord Asdrubael Vect. Here’s an extract.
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Monday 31st of October, 2011
Happy Halloween!
Halloween is upon us again. Monsters stalk the streets and the moon of Morrslieb waxes strong in a Chaos-tainted sky. But it’s not all doom, gloom and nasty tricks. Here at Black Library, we are very much of the treat-giving persuasion. Your Halloween gift this year is an eerie audio extract from Thorn and Talon.
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Friday 28th of October, 2011
E-mperor’s will
Friday comes around again, and as always Black Library is here to supply you with your weekly dose of action, with five new digital downloads.
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Thursday 27th of October, 2011
A Time For Heroes
Warhammer Heroes. These words evoke many images: mighty warriors leading great armies, shining armour and swinging blades, epic deeds and fabulous triumphs. And also, over the past couple of years, fantastic fiction about some of the best-loved Warhammer characters.
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Wednesday 26th of October, 2011
Quoth the Raven
With The Outcast Dead now available to buy, it is time to turn our attentions to the next Horus Heresy novel. Gav Thorpe’s Deliverance Lost follows Corax and the Raven Guard as they attempt to rebuild the Legion after their escape from Isstvan V (for more about Corax’s adventures on Isstvan, see the audio drama Raven’s Flight and the short story The Face of Treachery). To whet your appetite, here is an extract:
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Tuesday 25th of October, 2011
Priest of Mars
There has been a wave of new artwork coming into Black Library this month, and some of it is truly spectacular. We wanted to share some of the best with you.
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Monday 24th of October, 2011
Two new e-Premieres
It’s a good week to be a fan of eBooks. Last Friday we had two new eBook-exclusive titles available to download for the first time. We thought we’d use the blog today to look at them in a bit more detail.
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Friday 21st of October, 2011
Hammer and Birthday
They grow up so fast. It seems like only yesterday that Hammer and Bolter issue 1 went on sale, back in the golden age when the Soul Drinkers still had more Space Marines than you could fit in a Mini and Kindle was something you did to start fires.
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Thursday 20th of October, 2011
Little Horus
One of the great things about Black Library books (and there are many – remind us to make a list some time) is the inspiration they can provide to the hobbyist. Here in the Black Library office, we have armies emerging based on Nick Kyme’s Salamanders novels and a certain scene in Aaron Dembski-Bowden’s Blood Reaver, not to mention a plethora of Horus Heresy-era Space Marine armies. But we were all outdone, by this fantastic diorama by the talented Edd Ralph.
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Wednesday 19th of October, 2011
ANGEL OF FIRE
The secret cabal of Black Library artists have been hard at work of late and we have a slew of new covers to show you over the next few months. To kick these off, we bring you Raymond Swanland’s art for the first Macharian Crusade novel by William King, Angel of Fire.
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Tuesday 18th of October, 2011
Brand new unabridged audiobook
There are times when you might find it difficult to read a Black Library novel, no longer.
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Monday 17th of October, 2011
Slayer’s Oath
It’s been a while since we mentioned Gotrek & Felix: The Anthology on the blog so, with the book just a few months from hitting the shelves, we thought it was time to share the contents with you.
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Friday 14th of October, 2011
Gold and Silver
Aaron Dembski-Bowden’s Aurelian will finally be released into the world next Monday. In response to customer comments, there will be two versions available, and we wanted to give you all the details of both editions to allow you to make an informed decision between them.
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Thursday 13th of October, 2011
C.L.Werner guest blog
Last week, we gave you an extract from The Red Duke. Today C.L. Werner ,the dark lord of the night himself, has kindly written us a guest blog to talk about all the exciting things that have been flowing from his ornate quill. So without further ado, here he is:
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Wednesday 12th of October, 2011
Heresy in a box
Sometimes you just want to go back to a simpler time, when Horus still wore white, Magnus had his vertebrae intact and the Emperor’s Children had yet to develop an unhealthy fascination with prog-rock.
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Tuesday 11th of October, 2011
Neil Roberts' guest blog
Arch Imaginer Neil Roberts lays down his paintbrush and picks up pen today to write us a guest blog about his stunning primarchs artwork.
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Monday 10th of October, 2011
Family get-togethers
Family get-togethers: they don’t usually go down in history as epic events that shape the fate of the galaxy. Unless, of course, your brothers happen to be the most powerful beings known to man.
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Friday 7th of October, 2011
Nocturne extract
Today on the blog, we have an extract from Nick Kyme’s Nocturne, the final novel in the Tome of Fire trilogy. You have to hand it to the villainous Nihilan: when he organises an invasion, he does it right. In Nocturne, the eponymous home world of the Salamanders comes under attack from a vast alliance of Chaos worshippers and alien species, including the vicious dark eldar.
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Thursday 6th of October, 2011
Fanning the flames
Today we have a guest post from Salamanders author Nick Kyme, where he talks about the genesis of the tomb of fire series and its epic conclusion, 'Nocturne'. Take it away, Nick:
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Wednesday 5th of October, 2011
The Red Duke Extract
A gruesome little extract to whet your bloodthirsty appetites:
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Tuesday 4th of October, 2011
silver skull
Today on the blog, some new artwork from the talented Clint Langley.
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Monday 3rd of October, 2011
unto the anvil of War
Nocturne, The concluding chapter of Nick Kyme’s Tome of Fire trilogy is now available to preorder. Here’s a trailer, complete with fire and embers, because all Salamanders know that everything is more awesome when it’s on fire.
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Friday 30th of September, 2011
Bumper Birthday Hammer and Bolter on preorder
Yesterday, we reflected on the first year of our monthly fiction magazine, Hammer and Bolter. Today, it’s time to look forward to the start of the second year. Issue 13 of the downloadable magazine is available to pre-order now, and it’s a bumper collection of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 goodness (and badness and moral ambiguousness).
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Thursday 29th of September, 2011
Happy birthday Hammer and Bolter
With Hammer and Bolter: Year One now available to download, we thought we would take the opportunity to reflect on the first year of our download-only fiction magazine, its contents and some of the writers who have contributed.
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Wednesday 28th of September, 2011
A picture is worth a thousand words
With The Emperor’s Will, the new artbook from John Blanche, now up for preorder, we thought we’d dedicate today’s blog to the Black Library books that celebrate the spectacular art of Warhammer 40,000.
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Tuesday 27th of September, 2011
Its only 363 days until Games Day UK 2012
Last Saturday the Black Library team headed to Games Day UK, ready to set up for the biggest day in the Games Workshop calendar. Despite leaving at some ungodly hour of the morning, we were still beaten to the venue by the Emperor’s finest, who had alreadyarrived via drop pod
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Monday 26th of September, 2011
whom would you trust?
If you knew a secret that could change the course of history, and you knew the fate of Mankind rested in your hands, whom would you trust?
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Friday 23rd of September, 2011
it must be a friday
There has seldom been a day in Black Library’s history when more new products have gone on sale. Here’s what’s new today:
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Thursday 22nd of September, 2011
Three sleeps until Games Day UK
Games Day UK is less than 72 hours away. I don’t know about you, but we couldn’t be more excited. If you’re at Games Day this year, make sure to check out the Black Library Area, as we have a smorgasbord of activities to keep you entertained. To help you decide what to visit first, we put together this helpful map of the Black Library Area.
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Wednesday 21st of September, 2011
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.
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Tuesday 20th of September, 2011
ATOP THE WHITE FLAMES FORTRESS...
It’s nearly Games Day. In just five days, the NEC in Birmingham will be full of hobbyists and readers enjoying all the myriad pleasures of Games Workshop’s largest annual event. Among the Black Library’s many exciting offerings is the Games Day Anthology, a collection of six short stories in a handsome hardcover tome. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been giving you brief extracts from each of these stories, and here is the last one, from Andy Chambers’s ‘The Treasures of Biel-Tanigh’.
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Monday 19th of September, 2011
Available at Games day
With just seven days remaining until Games Day UK, and Games Day Australia a week later, the usual hubbub in the Black Library office is building into a frenzy of activity. There will be loads of new and prerelease books on sale, so for those of you who like to plan your manic rush around the sales area, here’s what we’ll have availbe on the day:
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Friday 16th of September, 2011
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.
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Thursday 15th of September, 2011
Bearers of the word
The past few weeks have seen the Black Library obsessed with the Word Bearers. As well as Aurelian, we have been working on Word Bearers: The Omnibus, a collection of Anthony Reynolds’s three novels featuring the fanatical Chaos Space Marines – Dark Apostle, Dark Disciple and Dark Creed. The omnibus also features a brand new short story epilogue to the trilogy, called ‘Torment’, which is so good that we just had to share the start of it with you:
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Wednesday 14th of September, 2011
Blood. There was too much blood
Games Day UK is now less than two weeks away, and so we bring you another look at the Games Day Anthology, the handsome short story collection that will be available to buy on the day. This extract comes from Nick Kyme’s entry in the volume, ‘Emperor’s Deliverance’:
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Tuesday 13th of September, 2011
Aurelian update – more copies and free shipping
Aurelian will be back on sale on Monday 17th October. And, in response to your feedback, there will be 6,000 copies (double the original amount) available to buy. We appreciate that some of you are more interested in reading the story than owning a signed copy. To that end, we are splitting the 6,000 copies into two distinct editions.
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Sunday 11th of September, 2011
Aurelian goes on sale in less than an hour
As it’s a limited edition product, Aurelian will be shipped using our premium UPS delivery service. As an added bonus, any other products that you order at the same time will be packed in the same box and be sent using the same premium service at no extra cost. So, that’s free UPS shipping on everything you order at the same time as Aurelian*.
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Friday 9th of September, 2011
Into the Hive of the Dead, one last time
On yesterday’s blog, we recovered a bloodstained map and an Imperial code book from the body of a Commissar. You then voted, using the Facebook poll, to examine the pict-screens for useful information. Let’s see if we found anything:
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Thursday 8th of September, 2011
Once more into the Hive of the Dead
Yesterday, our undead-killing hero had the option of searching the corpse of a ‘dead’ commissar, or leaving well alone. With little or no regard for your own brains, you opted to frisk the corpse of the deceased Imperial officer.
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Wednesday 7th of September, 2011
Deeper into the hive of the dead
Our online playthrough of Hive of the Dead, the first Warhammer 40,000 game book, continues. Yesterday, we managed to fend off the cannibalistic advances of two zombies, but took a minor injury in the process and used up almost all of our laspistol ammunition. After leaving the cell, we were faced with five options. You voted on our Facebook page to see if there was anything useful lying on the tables, so let’s rejoin the action as we gingerly approach the blood-stained surfaces:
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Tuesday 6th of September, 2011
Our journey in the Hive of the Dead continues
Our adventure in the Hive of the Dead continues. Yesterday, you awoke in a prison cell with no memory. You saw the body of a guard with a laspistol a set of keys outside the cell door, and a zombie shambling towards you. You chose to go for the las pistol. Now let’s see how that plays out:
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Monday 5th of September, 2011
Enter the hive of the dead
Hive of the Dead is the first ever Warhammer 40,000 gamebook. Using rules reminiscent of those in the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop game, albeit without models and terrain, you can venture through a hive-world infested with flesh eating zombies, ghouls and worse. With only this book, a six sided dice and a pencil, you can battle the zombie hordes from the comfort of your armchair. To give you a taste of the action, we thought we would play through Hive of the Dead on the Black Library blog every day this week, letting you choose our route through the post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested ruins.
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Monday 5th of September, 2011
The March of Doom
Continuing our Games Day UK countdown, here is the opening of Chris Wraight’s ‘The March of Doom’, his Luthor Huss short story from the Games Day Anthology 2011/12, available to buy on the day.
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Sunday 4th of September, 2011
The eye Stares Back
Watch the trailer for ‘Aurelian’
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Friday 2nd of September, 2011
Fear the Alien
Fear the Alien, the xenos-themed anthology, is now available to download as an eBook and as individual eShorts. So you can buy the whole book, or just your favourite story from the collection. Today’s influx in xenos-related fiction got us talking about the alien races in Warhammer 40,000 we were most afraid of. It’s hard to choose. I mean, would you rather be viscerally disembowelled by the whirling chain-blade of an ork choppa or ripped limb-from-limb by an inhuman genestealer? Or even dragged off to Commorragh, the Dark City, by cackling dark eldar slavers?
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Thursday 1st of September, 2011
Sisters are superior
Delivered by penitent guard, in a sanctified package marked with sigils of warding, the first copies of Hammer & Anvil and Faith & Fire arrived in the Black Library office today.
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Wednesday 31st of August, 2011
the eye opens
Those of you who signed up for a reminder or who subscribe to our newsletter found out yesterday, but for the benefit of everyone else: Aurelian goes on sale on the 12th September at 6pm (BST).
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Wednesday 31st of August, 2011
The spider and the Rat
Continuing our countdown to Games Day UK, we bring you the first paragraph from C.L Werner’s ‘Plague Priest’, one of the six short stories in the Games Day Anthology 2011/12.
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Tuesday 30th of August, 2011
Salvation is here
Salvation’s Reach, the 13th novel in the Gaunt’s Ghosts series is now available to preorder. Here is a BLTV trailer to stir the patriotic fervour of any loyal Tanith and get you fired up for the next instalment in Black Library’s best loved and longest running Warhammer 40,000 series.
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Friday 26th of August, 2011
Challenge of the eBooks
As you would expect from a reputable printing company, the Black Library office is constantly abuzz with highly intellectual literary conversation. With the release of four new Space Marine eBooks today, discussion shifted to the age old question: who would win in a fight between a Dark Angel Interrogator Chaplain and The Chapter Master of the Soul Drinkers?
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Thursday 25th of August, 2011
One month to go
It’s the 25th of August, and you know what that means… No? You don’t? Why, it’s one month until Games Day UK! Excitement is mounting here in the Black Library as we plan all the fantastic things you'll be able to do on the day (and, oh, they are fantastic). For example, you'll be able to pick up the exclusive Black Library Sampler CD.
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Wednesday 24th of August, 2011
A guest blog from Gav Thorpe
Prolific author Gav Thorpe takes over the Black Library blog today to talk about his extensive Black Library career and upcoming projects.
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Tuesday 23rd of August, 2011
ON A DRY, SAVAGE WORLD
As our countdown to Games Day continues (33 days!), we bring you the second exclusive extract from the Games Day Anthology 2011/2012, a collection of short stories that tie in to several Black Library series, old and new. Here is the first paragraph from Gav Thorpe’s ‘The Curse of Shaa-Dom’:
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Monday 22nd of August, 2011
Path of the Author
With the release of Path of Seer, the eagerly anticipated sequel to Path of the Warrior, we caught up with author Gav Thorpe to find out more about his new book and what he will be working on next.
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Friday 19th of August, 2011
Elves, Eldar and eBooks
Graham McNeill week ends today, and what better way to finish than with the release of the highly anticipated high elves novel, Sons of Ellyrion? In this epic tale, Ulthuan is besieged by dark elves and the fate of the elven race lies on the actions of a pair of twins. The first novel in Graham’s high elf duology, Defenders of Ulthuan, is also re-released with a swish new cover.
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Thursday 18th of August, 2011
An extract from Sons of Ellyrion
Tomorrow sees the release of Sons of Ellyrion, Graham McNeill’s long-awaited sequel to Defenders of Ulthuan. This novel continues the story of the high elf brothers Eldain and Caelir and set against the epic backdrop of a dark elf invasion of Ulthuan. Here is a short extract:
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Wednesday 17th of August, 2011
Eye of vengeance
Graham McNeill Week continues, and as promised, here is a previously unseen front cover from Graham’s upcoming audio drama, Eye of Vengeance. I think you’ll agree that Hardy Fowler’s dynamic illustration has captured the grizzled Ultramarine scout sergeant perfectly.
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Tuesday 16th of August, 2011
I am dying, that much I know
Games Day UK is in six weeks – Sunday the 25th of September – and to celebrate, we’re going to provide you with a glimpse at the contents of this year’s limited edition Games Day Anthology. Every Tuesday between now and the event, we’ll tease you with a short extract from one of the six stories in the hardcover volume. First up is Graham McNeill’s Horus Heresy tale, ‘Death of a Silversmith’.
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Monday 15th of August, 2011
Graham McNeill week
This week is Graham McNeill week at blacklibrary.com, celebrating Graham’s novels from Ulthuan to Ultramar. We start the week with a guest blog from the man, nay, the legend himself.
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Friday 12th of August, 2011
Name that Heretic
“Cower mortal, I have come to relive you from your tragic lives in pathetic service to a false god.” Is how this guy almost certainly introduces himself.
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Thursday 11th of August, 2011
Dressed to kill (the unclean)
It’s a bumper blog today as we celebrate last Sunday’s Games Day event in Germany. Black Library was there, of course, with Chris Bone and Lindsey Priestley joining Blood Angels author James Swallow for a day of new books, fans in costumes inspired by Black Library books and, to quote Lindsey, “jolly awful weather”.
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Wednesday 10th of August, 2011
The psyker and the wolf
In today’s Facebook poll, we asked you which limited edition art print you would like to have on sale this year at Games Day UK. We gave you the choice between the intricately detailed image of Farseer Thirianna from Path of the Seer and the feral brutality of the Space Wolves from Battle of the Fang.
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Tuesday 9th of August, 2011
A glimpse of the far future
August 20th to be precise. Path of the Seer is the second book in Gav Thorpe’s Path of the Eldar series, the first time we’ve had novels told from an eldar point of view. Like the skeins of fate that a farseer manipulates to see the future, the three tomes in the series intertwine, their stories linking together rather than following one after another like traditional series. The second volume follows the adventures of Thirianna, a poet who becomes a farseer and sees a great calamity approaching... Today we give you an extract from the novel, as Thirianna takes her first steps on the Path of the Seer...
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Monday 8th of August, 2011
Vermintide
With the release of Nagash Immortal marking the conclusion of the Rise of Nagash trilogy, this momentous chronicle of one of the darkest times in Warhammer history draws to a close. But the Warhammer World is seldom at peace and as of May next year, the Old World is plunged into one of the most chaotic and bloody ages in its history, as the very forces that opposed the necromancer Nagash seek to destroy the land of men. As with the first three trilogies in our Time of Legends range, Jon Sullivan has produced another breathtaking cover, encapsulating the Empire in a desperate struggle against plague and invasion.
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Friday 5th of August, 2011
Of Rats and Men
This week, we have some new Warhammer eBooks from C.L. Werner, in the form of Witch Hunter, Witch Finder and Witch Killer. These classic novels tell the story of Mathias Thulmann, a witch hunter of Sigmar, and his holy quest to rid the Empire of the forces of evil.
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Thursday 4th of August, 2011
His will be done
The release of an art book always creates a manic scramble in the office as we compete to grab one of the samples and leaf through the glossy pages of lavish artwork. The arrival of the first copies of The Emperor’s Will was no exception.
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Wednesday 3rd of August, 2011
What’s 20 feet high, has two heads and shoots lightning from its hands?
What’s 20 feet high, has two heads and shoots lightning bolts from its hands? Kairos Fatewaever, of course, and who better to depict the Master of Fate than Jon Sullivan, who has captured the warped and twisted nature of the daemons of Chaos in his new artwork for the cover of Architect of Fate.
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Tuesday 2nd of August, 2011
Zombies Vs Lasguns
We do like to keep you excited, so with the complete Daemonifuge now available, it’s time for a sneak peek at the next release in our Print on Demand line, Hive of the Dead.
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Monday 1st of August, 2011
Daemonifuge reborn
Ephrael Stern, the thrice-born scourge of Chaos, returns in a reprint of the award winning graphic novel Daemonifuge. This tale follows the renegade Sister of Battle halfway across the galaxy, hunted by the powers of Chaos and the misguided forces of the inquisition, from alien worlds through the ancient depths of the webway and into the realm of Chaos itself.
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Saturday 30th of July, 2011
What’s the best thing about Fridays?
What’s the best thing about Fridays? Why it’s new eBooks of course! This week we have four new eBooks for you:
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Thursday 28th of July, 2011
Next seasons books announced
Head over to the Coming Soon section of our website, and you‘ll see that a host of new books have been added. Because a lot of these new products are a long way into the future, we can’t reveal too much detail right now, but the what there is should be enough to whet your appetite for the year ahead, and there are some tantalising titles in there:
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Wednesday 27th of July, 2011
The results are in
Well guys, the Facebook artwork polls are in and the winner is...
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Tuesday 26th of July, 2011
Comic Con-gratulations!
The awards just keep on coming here at Black Library. Scarcely a month after Darius Hinks won the coveted Gemmell Morningstar Award for his novel, Warrior Priest, Nathan Long’s Bloodborn has earned him a Scribe Award at this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego, California.
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Monday 25th of July, 2011
The next step on the path of the Eldar
It's been a while since we had a new video to show, and even longer since we had a new book about the Eldar. Today we mean to set both those right - with a trailer for Gav Thorpe's upcoming novel Path of the Seer.
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Friday 22nd of July, 2011
A promise fulfilled
A few months back we promised you an extended extract from Aaron Dembski-Bowden’s upcoming Horus Heresy novella, Aurelian. Well, true to our word, you’ll find the first three chapters from it inside this month’s issue of Hammer and Bolter. We didn’t want you to miss out though (and Andy kept pestering us to include his interview) so here it is now:
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Thursday 21st of July, 2011
The Imperial Truth is a lie
It’s been three months this week since Promethean Sun, the limited edition Horus Heresy novella, sold out on it’s opening day. For those of you who didn’t manage to get your hands on one, fear not, you’ll soon have a chance to get the second novella, Aurelian.
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Wednesday 20th of July, 2011
Iron Within! Iron Without!
Here is the new cover art for the Iron Warriors Omnibus. Stef Kopinski has done a great job capturing the brutality of the Iron Warriors techno-barbarism, with great little touches like the daemonic axehead and rusted chevrons.
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Tuesday 19th of July, 2011
Nagash Rises
The Great Necromancer is about to rise from his uneasy slumber. Nagash Immortal, the third volume in Mike Lee’s Time of Legends trilogy, is shipping now. Our spies sneaked into his lair and stole this extract, where Nagash finally takes to the battlefield against the verminous skaven:
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Monday 18th of July, 2011
And They Shall Know no Cake
Here at Black Library our primary fuel source is cake. With this in mind, BL fan Phil Thorogood was kind enough to send us this tasty culinary feast.
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Friday 15th of July, 2011
Anyone call for a bounty hunter?
The Old World is a dangerous place right now, what with storms of magic engulfing the continent and giant monsters roaming the land. What you need is a down to earth, practical man with a talent for monster slaying – step forward, Brunner!
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Thursday 14th of July, 2011
Alien Ninja Pirate
Would you mess with an alien-ninja-pirate who’s wearing somebody’s skin as a belt? No, me neither. I know we’ve already revealed some cover art this week, but when a trans-dimensional webway portal opens up in the office and spews forth artwork from the dark city, it would be impolite for us not to share it with you all.
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Wednesday 13th of July, 2011
They are the Defenders of humanity, they are the Space Marines and they shall:
Just as we promised, here is some brand new artwork for you eager blog readers, and it’s something special. Neil Roberts’ cover for Dan Abnett’s next Horus Heresy novel Know No Fear, proves once again that everything, even Space Marine on Space Marine close combat action, is better when it’s set in space!
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Tuesday 12th of July, 2011
Games Day Anthology
The Games Day excitement in the office stepped up a notch today, when we received the first copy (of only 3000) of the 2011/12 Games Day Anthology. This is the first time we’ve ever done an anthology specially for Games Workshops premier event, and as you’d expect, its chock a block with short stories from our best authors. Not only that but it Clint Langley has again produced a stunning cover, displaying a particularly sinister looking Eldar Farsear.
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Monday 11th of July, 2011
The Outcast Dead extract
Once again, we’ve managed to prise an extract from a forthcoming novel out of the editors’ hands. This time it’s Graham McNeill’s next Horus Heresy novel, The Outcast Dead, going to print this week for its November release.
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Friday 8th of July, 2011
The sons of Nocturne return
Today we have the new issue of Hammer and Bolter up for preorder as well as Vulkan’s shield, a Salamanders audio drama from Nick Kyme.
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Thursday 7th of July, 2011
The Wedding of the (41st) Millennium
On Tuesday, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, author of such novels as Soul Hunter and The First Heretic married the lovely Katie Brunt.
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Wednesday 6th of July, 2011
New artwork unveiled
As promised, today we have an exclusive reveal of some new artwork for you. Here is the cover art for some of the great books coming out early next year.
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Tuesday 5th of July, 2011
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, here is a brand new extract, introducing some new characters to the series:
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Monday 4th of July, 2011
Void Stalker artwork
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.
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Friday 1st of July, 2011
New book Friday!
It’s New Book Friday, and do we have some awesome reads for you? of course we do! Out today we have a new Night Lords print on demand novel and four great new Ebooks.
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Thursday 30th of June, 2011
Storm of Magic novellas, chat with the editor
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:
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Wednesday 29th of June, 2011
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.
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Tuesday 28th of June, 2011
Nagash Immortal video
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.
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Monday 27th of June, 2011
Black Library books now available in Italy and Spain
For the first time last weekend, Black Library books were available in Spanish and Italian Games Workshop hobby centres.
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Thursday 23rd of June, 2011
That Friday Feeling
Friday means one thing, new books! And today we have a catalogue of new titles including not one, but two novels from the new Gemmell award winning author Darius Hinks. Not only that, we also have a host of new e-books are available to download today along with this month’s new issue of Hammer and Bolter. It is a good Friday to be a Black Library reader!
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Wednesday 22nd of June, 2011
Neil Roberts' Horus Heresy artwork
A closer look at some of Neil Roberts' Horus Heresy cover art.
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Monday 20th of June, 2011
Darius Hinks Wins David Gemmell Award
Darius Hinks wins the Morning Star Award for best newcomer at the David Gemmell Legend Awards.
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Friday 17th of June, 2011
The warriors of the bloody handed god, now on e-book
Today sees the relese of some great new e-books, including the Fantastic Path of the Warrior by Gav Thorpe.
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Wednesday 15th of June, 2011
Games Day 2011 update
Exciting news about Black Library at Games Day. New Authors and artists anounced.
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Monday 13th of June, 2011
Battle of the Fang author interview
I’m sure many of you have already sunk your longfangs into our latest Space Marine Battles book, Chris Wraight’s Battle of the Fang. We sure did, and we wanted to know more about how Chris went about the process of recreating the death world of Fenris and its feral guardians. We caught up with him last month and this is what he had to say about it.
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Friday 3rd of June, 2011
The High Lords Gather
Yesterday, a veritable regiment of authors descended upon the Black Library for a meeting about a Top Secret Project. The details must remain hidden (for now...), but we managed to snap a few pictures of the writers...
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Tuesday 31st of May, 2011
Black Library at Games Day 2011
Games Day is Games Workshop’s premier annual event – a celebration of the Games Workshop hobby in all its forms, including – of course – the worlds of Black Library. This year’s UK event is on Sunday the 25th of September at the Birmingham NEC LG Arena, and Black Library will be there in force.
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Tuesday 24th of May, 2011
Age of Darkness makes the New York Times bestseller list
A few weeks ago I received a very surprising bit of news – Age of Darkness had made it to number 31 on the New York Times bestseller list for Mass Market Paperback Fiction. You may wonder why that came as a surprise when the previous four books in the Horus Heresy series had all made the list and the authors of all four of those had contributed stories to the anthology, but the thing is this – anthologies hardly ever make the NYT bestseller list.
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Friday 20th of May, 2011
Battle of the Fang
You may remember that a few weeks ago, Chris Wraight spoke on this very blog about the experience of writing Battle of the Fang, his first Space Marine Battles novel. Well, as the release date of this mighty tome has arrived, we have a fantastic trailer to whet your appetite.
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Friday 20th of May, 2011
Heresy at the Guardian
We’ve known about it for years, but it’s great to see the high-brow press waking up to the literary genius of Mr Abnett. Well done Dan!
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Tuesday 17th of May, 2011
And the winner is...
Back in March, we launched a competition to celebrate a year of the new-look Black Library website. The prize was dinner with the mighty New York Times bestselling author, Dan Abnett. Well, the entries are all in and a winner has been randomly selected. And the lucky victor is...
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Tuesday 10th of May, 2011
Call in the Tech Priests
In all the excitement of getting Promethean Sun despatched as quickly as possible, it seems our system has managed to get ahead of itself. Our warehouse team printed off all the packing sheets and prepared packaging in boxes last Friday to be ready to send out the thousands of copies of Promethean Sun as soon as they arrived in our warehouse. Unfortunately, when this happened, our website was tricked into thinking your order had been despatched!
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Monday 9th of May, 2011
Promethean arrivals
Copies of Promethean Sun are starting to arrive now (check out cover artist Neil Roberts’s excited reaction on Twitter) and, as we promised last week, we can now reveal where we’ll be selling the few remaining copies for those eager Horus Heresy fans who were unable to order the limited edition book. We’ve updated the Events Page on the website with details of what events we’re going to this year and how many copies of this lavish hardback novella we’ll be taking to each. Enjoy!
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Wednesday 4th of May, 2011
Promethean fun
The first copies of Promethean Sun, the first Horus Heresy novella, is back from the printers. We’re ridiculously excited by the sample copies and wanted to share our excitement with you.
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Thursday 28th of April, 2011
Remembrance of Wolves
It’s all about Space Wolves in the Black Library office at the moment as we look forward to the release of the latest Space Marine Battles novel, Battle of the Fang. To get you in the mood for Space Wolf action we also have 5 new eBooks for you this week. Three of these are classic Space Wolf novels by William King: Space Wolf, Grey Hunter and Ragnar’s Claw. We also have the Blood Angels novels Red Fury and Black Tide by James Swallow, just in case you find yourself in need of even more Space Marine action. We asked the lovely Chris Wraight to say a few words about writing Battle of the Fang and he even gives you a sneaky preview from the book...
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Thursday 21st of April, 2011
Interview with a remembrancer, part two
Yesterday we brought you the first part of an exclusive interview with John French, author of the short story ‘The Last Remembrancer’ in the new Horus Heresy anthology, Age of Darkness. Here’s part 2.
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Wednesday 20th of April, 2011
Interview with a Remembrancer, part one
John French is relatively new to the Black Library stable, but he’s already made quite an impact with his short stories ‘Hunted’ and ‘The Last Remembrancer’. Recently, we summoned him to the darkest depths of the Black Library offices, where he was subjected to a thorough grilling.
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Tuesday 19th of April, 2011
Staring at the sun
Burn baby, burn! BL have let me get my hands on the blog today to extol the fiery virtues of Promethean Sun. If you’re one of the lucky few (well, 3,000 actually) who’ve managed to order a copy then you’re in for a fat slice of Salamanders Legionary action. This is the first story to feature Vulkan in a prominent role (the prominent role, to be exact) and as well as the shooty-death-kill you might well expect, there are also deeper thematic overtones that hopefully enrich the primarch’s character.
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Friday 15th of April, 2011
The sun is setting
Promethean Sun, the first limited edition Horus Heresy novella, went on sale this morning. The response has been amazing, with over a thousand of the 3,000 copies selling in the first hour alone. Due to the massive demand for this title, we have temporarily removed it from sale to ensure that we have enough stock to satisfy all existing orders. We will repost any remaining stock at 12 noon UK local time on Monday 18 April.
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Thursday 14th of April, 2011
Promethean Sun trailer
Promethean Sun trailer
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Friday 8th of April, 2011
Into the fires of war
We have hot news for you today - a special teaser for a very exciting upcoming Horus Heresy product. If you subscribe to the Black Library newsletter, then you saw this yesterday (though we suspect that you may have a burning desire to see it again), and if you don’t subscribe (and why not?), then take a look and see if it stokes the fires of excitement within you – it certainly has for us!
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Friday 1st of April, 2011
One Day Only - Free Shipping on all eBooks
Hurrah! It’s April; a month full of flowers, bank holidays and chocolate eggs. What’s more, we’re offering free shipping on all eBooks until midnight April 1st.
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Tuesday 29th of March, 2011
An age of darkness
Age of Darkness trailer.
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Thursday 24th of March, 2011
Happy Birthday blacklibrary.com
Believe it or not, it’s been a whole year since we launched our new-look website (the beautiful arrangement of binary you see before you). To celebrate we’re holding a competition. Every time you spend £50/$75/€60 here on blacklibrary.com over the next month, you’ll be entered into a prize draw. If you place several orders for that amount, you’ll be entered multiple times and increase your chance of winning. Huzzah!
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Friday 18th of March, 2011
Andy Hoare talks about White Scars
Andy Hoare talks about White Scars
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Friday 11th of March, 2011
Memories of Black Library Live! 2011
As well as working on exciting new books (and eating cake), this week at BL Towers has been all about celebrating the success of Black Library Live. We are genuinely thrilled that people enjoyed it so much, and we’re loving the various event diaries and seminar reviews that are popping up across the internet.
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Tuesday 8th of March, 2011
Deliverance Lost, Corax arrives
Continuing Black Library Live week here on the blog, we have a piece of Horus Heresy artwork which was first seen by fans attending the event in Warhammer World on Saturday.
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Monday 7th of March, 2011
The joy of cake
Black Library Live 2011 has been and gone (and thoroughly enjoyable it was too – thank you to everyone who showed up and made it such a fantastic day!), and it’s back to business as usual here in BL Towers.
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Thursday 3rd of March, 2011
The seeds of heresy are being re-sown
It’s been five years since the Horus Heresy exploded into life with Horus Rising. Now, fifteen novels later, we’re going back to the beginning with the 5th Anniversary edition of that very first book in the series. This edition has a gorgeous “titanium blue” foil treatment on the cover (or “blue steel” as the film fans in the office have been calling it) and it includes an exclusive new introduction by author Dan Abnett celebrating the success of the series. You can pre-order the novel now, and while you’re waiting for it to arrive you can watch this fantastic trailer for the book from BLTV. Enjoy!
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Friday 25th of February, 2011
The Age of Legend is coming
Fans of the Time of Legends trilogies The Legend of Sigmar, The Rise of Nagash and The Sundering will no doubt be looking forward to the forthcoming anthology Age of Legend, featuring tales of mighty heroes and epic deeds from throughout the long history of the Warhammer World. Well, Clint Langley is too, and he’s given us an amazing piece of artwork for the cover.
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Thursday 24th of February, 2011
Black Library Live! 2011 schedule
Celebrating and showcasing Black Library's books, audio productions and authors, Black Library Live! returns for its third year.
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Wednesday 23rd of February, 2011
Bearers of the Word
Even though we’ve spoiled you recently with sneak peeks of forthcoming covers, we couldn’t resist giving you one more, in the shape of this amazing Chaos Space Marine by Clint Langley.
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Friday 18th of February, 2011
All-new Horus Heresy & Eisenhorn short stories
Viva la Revolucion! The novel is dead, long live the short story! Perhaps not, but there is a lot to be said for short fiction: it allows authors to explore a new genre or develop a group of characters without committing to a full novel. As readers we benefit too: a short story can prove the ideal accompaniment to a longer novel and give us a chance to fit in a whole adventure before bed.
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Tuesday 15th of February, 2011
Electric Dreams, guest post by Chris Wraight
Today Chris Wraight talks about his latest novel Sword of Vengeance and the arrival of eBooks in a guest blog post.
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Friday 11th of February, 2011
The Outcast Dead final cover
Back in December, we showed you Neil Robert’s sketches for Graham McNeill’s next Horus Heresy novel. Since then, we have been inundated with requests to see the finished artwork. So, without further ado (and to give us more space in our inbox):
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Thursday 10th of February, 2011
The Keeler Image
Eisenhorn's back and so is Clint Langley with another great image of everyone's favourite inquisitor (aside from the one in the floating chair, obviously). This striking depiction of a young Gregor Eisenhorn will appear on the cover of the forthcoming audio drama The Keeler Image.
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Wednesday 9th of February, 2011
A Crimson Nightmare
The Red Duke cover art revealed.
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Tuesday 8th of February, 2011
Huron is coming through the Gildar Rift
Jon Sullivan has out done himself. This fantastic piece of art will appear on the cover for upcoming novel The Gildar Rift. We think this might just be the best cover for a Space Marine Battles novel yet. What do you think?
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Monday 7th of February, 2011
Thanquol's Doom
Winona Nelson, who clearly hates Dwarfs, painted this striking cover for the forthcoming Thanquol's Doom. Bet that Dwarf wishes he'd worn his helmet.
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Friday 4th of February, 2011
Blood of Aenarion preview
Fans of William King were excited to hear about the upcoming new trilogy featuring High Elf princes Tyrion and Teclis (and if you missed it, you can see the BLTV interview with the author himself). We now have Raymond Swanland's art for the cover of Blood of Aenarion, featuring Tyrion himself! This is the first time we have featured this famous High Elf prince on the cover of a novel and we think Raymond has done a brilliant job.
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Thursday 3rd of February, 2011
Upon the anvil of war, Nocturne!
For the dramatic finale of Nick’s trilogy, Nocturne, we decided to show a different kind of Salamander and artist Cheoljoo Lee has brought Librarian Dak'ir to life in this striking cover. Check out the close up to see that glint of psychic power in his eyes ...
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Friday 21st of January, 2011
When audio dramas attack...
Armed with some shiny new headphones (and the latest edition of photoshop), Dan Harden immersed himself fully in the forthcoming audio drama Garro: Legion of One.
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Monday 10th of January, 2011
A look into the future...
On Sunday the 16th Prospero Burns is listed in the Paperback Best Sellers Mass-Market Fiction section of the New York Times book review, at number 16! Please join us in congratulating the wonderful Dan Abnett on this monumental achievement as this is the first time a Black Library novel will be in the top 20 and printed in the paper!
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Thursday 6th of January, 2011
New cover art for Nagash Immortal
Jon Sullivan is the chap behind the cover art for the Space Marine Battles and the Time of Legends books. He’s a talented artist, a perfectionist and a little mad. Jon painted a great piece of art for the cover of Nagash Immortal. At least we thought so. Jon on the other hand felt that it wasn’t quite great enough, that a book featuring one of the most infamous characters from the Warhammer world needed something spectacular. So he painted another, from scratch (we love you Jon). And here it is: the new cover-art for Nagash Immortal.
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Wednesday 5th of January, 2011
The Purging of Kadillus Trailer
The Purging of Kadillus Trailer
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