Upcoming BL Stuff - 2022

[cheywood]

3 minutes ago, Taliesin said:

Its unusual that the Rogal Dorn Limited Edition is listed for an August release, but no regular edition up yet on Amazon, but on the other hand we do see a brand new listing for the regular edition of Sanguinius, to come out late November. Which means you'd expect the Limited edition of that in September at the latest.

288 pages for the Sanguinius book btw, nice to see a longer volume.

It seems a few places haven’t listed Rogal Dorn yet, but Simon and Schuster has it for October 11th:https://catalog.simonandschuster.com/TitleDetails/TitleDetails.aspx?cid=1440&isbn=9781800262386&FilterByName=Format&FilterBy=8&FilterVal=Hardcover&ob=0&pn=1&ed=&showcart=N&camefrom=&find=&a=  I would assume a November release date is more likely though 

[Taliesin]

Interesting, an October release would be great, definitely picking that one up.

[dcye]

So Mortarion should be today - pray I get one.

[dcye]

6 hours ago, dcye said:

So Mortarion should be today - pray I get one.

I got it, phew

[BadOmen]

It took about 9 minutes to sell out

[Kelborn]

Glad that were back online.

I missed the BL section.. :)

Seems Like were getting a lot of IF/ BT related stuff this year, which I highly approve will enjoy for sure!

Imho, the Fists and Templars have been left aside storywise recently, except the Codex.

 

Also, hell yeah to Luther dropping in German so soon! Loved the audio and the world building g is superb. Probably gonna get it just for that alone. Valdor in comparison took what felt like ages.

Edited June 25, 2022 by Kelborn

[dcye]

38 minutes ago, BadOmen said:

It took about 9 minutes to sell out

 

Still available on the AU site, been up for about 8 hours.

[cheywood]

Extremely exciting news! We have a name, cover, description and release date for Vaults of Terra 3, all courtesy of Fnac. It’s called The Dark City, and is supposedly up for preorder on July 16th. With any other website I’d assume that’s an error and GW delayed the release without updating retailers, but Fnac’s never been wrong before. They also just listed this book today. 

Anyways, here’s the link: https://www.fnac.com/livre-numerique/a17153914/Chris-Wraight-The-Dark-City#omnsearchpos=9

and the blurb:

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Vaults of Terra Book 3

Separated from Inquisitor Cowl, Interrogator Spinoza hoists her crozius and sets to protecting what’s left of their organisation while continuing her quest for truth. But can she survive the dire straights she finds herself in, as she guards humanity from enemies within and without?

READ IT BECAUSE

Luce Spinoza comes into her own, with the weight of her lord’s fate sitting heavy on her shoulders, while pushing forward with their mission. With enemies closing in on all sides, she must choose a path for herself.

THE STORY

The Throneworld is in turmoil, wracked by the opening of the Great Rift and the failure of the Astronomican. Inquisitor Erasmus Crowl, his mind and body ravaged by what he has seen in the Hollow Mountain, is missing, taking with him the clues to the conspiracy that has come to obsess him. Luce Spinoza, his interrogator, must choose whether to seek him out or defend her diminished realm from the many forces that still seek to destroy it. As enemies circle, Interrogator Spinoza enters a race against time to find the evidence she needs. But with the fate of humanity itself hanging in the balance, she must decide what lengths she is willing to go to in order to uncover the truth.

Written by Chris Wraight

 

Edited June 28, 2022 by cheywood
Got the date wrong because I’m bad at math. It’s July 16th, not 15th

[DarkChaplain]

Judging by the cover, Navradaran is back at last

[Lord Nord in Gravis Armour]

Great news - while I'm certainly even more interested in the finale of the Watchers of the Throne series, I suspect there will be some momentous events happening in this one as well. Not the least of which may be the death/discorporation of a certain High Lord, allowing BL and GW to stop :cussfooting around as to whether that individual is still alive in their fiction and sourcebooks set in more recent times.

[Ubiquitous1984]

Does anyone have a primer for what happened in the first two books?  It’s been so long since I read them that all I can really remember is that I enjoyed them, and there was a fight inside the imperial palace and astronomican- but little else!!  My memory is terrible.   

[Sothalor]

The Carrion Throne:

Spinoza becomes Interrogator to Inquisitor Erasmus Crowl. They stumble into a conspiracy that definitely involves factions within the Inquisition, Mechanicus, and very likely some of the standing High Lords. This turns out to be the codex blurb about the Mechanicus reaching out to elements of the Dark Eldar for help with the gradually failing Golden Throne. An escaped Haemonculus has been fleshcrafting things out of the ignored underclass urban populace because, hey, that's what psychotic body-horror faeries do. Big battle ensues at the end, conspiracy not resolved.

The Hollow Mountain:

Spinoza and Crowl continue their investigations into which of the High Lords is behind the conspiracy. Crowl checks out the Speaker for the Chartist Captains (essentially the aggregate Imperial shipping fleet). Spinoza leads a defense of their fortress stronghold when it comes under sustained attack. Heavy casualties ensue. They put things together and figure out the Astronomican is involved, and head out to the physical facility (the eponymous Hollow Mountain). In the midst of it all the Great Rift opens. Astronomican goes offline. Chaos ensues. All the denizens of the Astronomican have been driven mad and the place is a horror show. Spinoza and Crowl have a falling out over their duties; Crowl just wants to pursue the conspiracy, Spinoza believes they need to retake the Astronomican and get it back online. They part ways - Spinoza calls on the Imperial Fists for help, Crowl moves on and confronts Leops Franck, the Master of the Astronomican. He gets some answers, not others. Spinoza and the Fists succeed in reclaiming the Astronomican, but it's clear a monumental catastrophe has occurred.

[Ubiquitous1984]

Thank you very much good sir!

[cheywood]

As expected there’s a short interview about The Dark City on WarCom: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/06/29/its-a-story-about-desperation-chris-wraight-discusses-his-latest-vaults-of-terra-novel/

Clearly the powers that be decided not to do a BL preview this month and instead are dropping new books every Wednesday. I wonder if that’ll be the case this fall too. I kinda prefer it this way, gives each book its due. 

[Taliesin]

Well it would be nice if they would at least bother to update the coming soon section, which is once again becoming derelict. It only goes 1/2 months into the future anyway, keep that up at least.

[DukeLeto69]

Vaults of Terra: The Dark City

A MUST buy from me!

[Sothalor]

1 hour ago, Taliesin said:

Well it would be nice if they would at least bother to update the coming soon section, which is once again becoming derelict. It only goes 1/2 months into the future anyway, keep that up at least.

I think there's a bit of a self-perpetuating cycle going on here with the Warhammer Community site. The Coming Soon page is a couple of steps deep into the site navigation, and in today's age of uber-ADHD net skimming, that's practically the kiss of death for getting traffic and views. This is undoubtedly further exacerbated by the reality that Black Library branch fiction sales make up a small, small percentage of Games Workshop total revenue.

The WHC team is also guaranteed to be busy keeping up with the daily updates of "This [new product] is the bestest thing evar!!!" so those sections of the site that aren't plastered up front and center get lower priority.

[Ubiquitous1984]

I read on twitter that GW/BL are hiring for a job that sounded very much like a warcom marketing role, hopefully this will help increase BL visibility on the website.  

[System Sound]

1 hour ago, Ubiquitous1984 said:

I read on twitter that GW/BL are hiring for a job that sounded very much like a warcom marketing role, hopefully this will help increase BL visibility on the website.  

Black Library’s hiring for 3 new roles:

•Commissioning Editor

•Submissions Editor 

•Content & Copy Editor

CnC editor description being:

"We are looking for a Content and Copy Editor to join our busy editorial team to create content and guides which will enable external and internal stakeholders to navigate the Black Library range. You will produce copy about Black Library characters, stories and franchises for a variety of uses, from promotional copy, incidental copy and blurbs."

Hopefully this means that we gonna get official guides and actual advertising for their product...

 

Edited June 29, 2022 by System Sound

[Roomsky]

Some things via Amazon.ca:

• Knight of Talassar: The Cato Sicarius Omnibus (Nick Kyme) - March 28, 2023
  • Presumably Kyme's Damnos stuff and Knights of Macragge. Hard skip from me, but I know some like his ultras.
• Renegades of the Long War - January 31, 2023.
  • Collects Khârn: Eater of Worlds, Lucius, the Faultless Blade, and Sons of the Hydra. I've heard mixed reviews for Sons of the Hydra, but this omnibus is a steal for Khârn and Lucius. I was hoping against hope Khârn was being saved for a surprise Skalathrax novel at some point, but alas BL still seems to be avoiding it, for some reason.

Paperbacks for The Rose in Anger, Assassinorum: Kingmaker, and Ahriman: Eternal all coming about 6 months after their hardback release, as expected.

[theSpirea]

Helbrecht: Knight of the Throne (Limited Edition) is coming out next Saturday. And as usual, BL/GW doesn't even bother to update the Coming Soon section.

[cheywood]

I quite enjoyed Grim Repast and the Black Templars are usually good fun, so I’ll probably  pick this up. Unfortunate to see it release as an LE when the last two character novels were released simultaneously, but that’s not the book’s fault.

[theSpirea]

42 minutes ago, cheywood said:

I quite enjoyed Grim Repast and the Black Templars are usually good fun, so I’ll probably  pick this up. Unfortunate to see it release as an LE when the last two character novels were released simultaneously, but that’s not the book’s fault.

Huron was SE but Ghaz was LE. There was a gap of approx 10 months between LE and general release.

[DarkChaplain]

Nice to see that Uriel Ventris 4 is out in two weeks in audio, too. Was worried they'd stop after Dead Sky, Black Sun, with how long it's been.

On the flipside, another Farsight audio. I don't even know if Kelly intends to write another novel, but I would expect it at this point...

[skylerboodie]

Two new novellas via the Imperium magazine premium subscription:

- Bones of the Martyr

- Kjalma's Skull

Can't see the author(s)

 

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Edited July 4, 2022 by skylerboodie