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[OpossumStrong]

21 hours ago, DukeLeto69 said:

It was also a way to keep old timers like me still spending my money on GW product.

Strongly agree about this one, most of my armies were inspired by the books, often I read some book and at some point I'm like "Ok now I want to paint/buy those models I've been looking at for months", I haven't read any BL books after the Siege, and I found myself painting a lot less than before.

 

The good part is that the lack of BL novels brought me back to Dragonriders of Pern, I really loved those books as a kid/teenager, and rereading them now brings back a lot of good memories.

Edited May 14 by OpossumStrong

[wecanhaveallthree]

It's not just the Siege, Dawn of Fire is coming to a close as well quite soon. Be good to hear what's coming next.

 

That McNeill hasn't been pipped to write more now he's out of Riot seems particularly strange. No news on the Horus Primarch novel, too? Hm.

[DukeLeto69]

13 hours ago, Taliesin said:

Not to blow out your flickering candle but the problem with number 2 is that they had years to think about what to do after the Siege of Terra, that did not come upon them like a sudden freight train. So they have known about that a long time but there seems to be no plan whatsoever. Or, nothing has been communicated but something is ready behind the scenes.

Shhhhhh! The flame is guttering!

 

i’d love to think there is a grand long term plan and this just the calm and tranquil period before the new storm hits but…?

[Felix Antipodes]

For those who take note of such thing, former BL staffer Marc Gascoigne has left his position as publishing director at Aconyte books.  I always considered Marc the reason so many BL writers moved across to that publisher.  No future plans announced yet.

[grailkeeper]

Theres a lot of ex gw staffers on youtube telling all now- Chris Peach and Suggs for example. I'd love to know the background gossip in BL. I'd say they're just as Byzantine.

[Ubiquitous1984]

7 hours ago, grailkeeper said:

Theres a lot of ex gw staffers on youtube telling all now- Chris Peach and Suggs for example. I'd love to know the background gossip in BL. I'd say they're just as Byzantine.

Do you have any videos that you'd recommend?  

[aa.logan]

20 hours ago, grailkeeper said:

Theres a lot of ex gw staffers on youtube telling all now- Chris Peach and Suggs for example. I'd love to know the background gossip in BL. I'd say they're just as Byzantine.

The stories he’d have- having been very involved in Fighting Fantasy, WHFBRP, the Judge Dredd RPG, Blood Bowl and Dark Future amongst others before we even cover establishing Black Library (and later Angry Robot…).

 

If it wasn’t for his Chadda Darkmanr novels, I’m not sure if I’d be here (YMMV vary to that being a good thing or not), but he’s a total hero of mine and an under-recognised titan of the industry…

 

EDIT: TURNS OUT HE HAS DONE A PODCAST/VIDEO ON ALL THE ABOVE WITH JORDAN SORCERY

Edited May 16 by aa.logan

[Noserenda]

Yeah Jordan Sorcery seems like the best source for GW Fiction/RPG interviews (And oldhammer in general)

https://www.youtube.com/@jordansorcery

[Orange Knight]

Anyone else disappointed by the lack of novels dealing with the return of the Lion, or with the Votann?

 

In the scheme of things, the returned Primarch and the re-introduction of a faction that is empowered by functional STCs from the Dark Age of technology should be major events.

 

It feels like Black Library and GW have let us down a bit.

[darkhorse0607]

51 minutes ago, Orange Knight said:

Anyone else disappointed by the lack of novels

 

Could have stopped right there

[grailkeeper]

Maybe it'll turn out that Robert Rath and ADB are collaborating on a novel that intertwines the return of the Votann with the return of the Primarch.

 

A boy can dream.

[darkhorse0607]

If hypothetically ADB puts out a theoretical Votann book before Black Legion 3 I will riot, in theory of course

[DarkChaplain]

Another Unwanted Stepchild moment:

 

They just had their "big" AoS 4.0 starter set stream. All model reveals out within 10 minutes, little of which they hadn't already previewed, like, in April.

They talked on the couch after every trailer, mostly reiterating what we already knew from WarCom, or not adding more than your usual WarCom article would include even if it was new stuff.

They ended the stream by looping all the trailers back to back.

 

 

.....on the starter set full reveal WarCom page, they then let you know at the bottom that Gary Kloster has written a tie-in novel for the starter set. YOU COULD HAVE SHOWN THAT THING ON THE PRE-RECORDED STREAM WITH PRE-RECORDED TEASER VIDEOS SPLICED IN THAT YOU BROADCAST!

 

Then again, they're such professionals, they originally only updated the WarCom EN-US/CA page with the stream even being live. The EN (UK/Elsewhere) site only got updated 20 minutes into the stream. So... after all the model reveals were over.

[darkhorse0607]

That reveal stream was... something else.

 

Feel bad for Mr Kloster though, that's how you have your book revealed after all the work of writing it?

[The Scorpion]

21 hours ago, grailkeeper said:

Maybe it'll turn out that Robert Rath and ADB are collaborating on a novel that intertwines the return of the Votann with the return of the Primarch.

 

A boy can dream.

Hot take, but I'm still not sold on Votann.
Ever since day one of their release, all I can think of is that GW was right to squat them the first time around.
Hopefully a BL book might change my opinion on them, but I'm still in no hurry to see them appear in lore.

Edited May 17 by The Scorpion

[grailkeeper]

I found Gary Klosters Dark Angels books too entry level" but for a brand new setting that weakness is a strength. I don't need to have explained to me what a chaplain is, but explaining what a brand new Aos "Specialis Characterium" or whatever is would be good. If its brand new telling instead of showing isn't so bad.

[Scribe]

It's dead Jim.

[Felix Antipodes]

Another week of money saved.  I’ve a suspicion that when the levy finally breaks we will get a BL week like flood of a dozen releases in one go… 

Edited May 18 by Felix Antipodes
Fat fingers

[grailkeeper]

I wonder if Black Librarybis a loss leader for Gw? I doubt it but maybe it's why they're throttling back?

[theSpirea]

Pre-order email has The Fall of Cadia audiobook "It's a touchstone moment of the Warhammer 40,000 timeline – hear the battle that led to the opening of the Great Rift in this updated audiobook."

Wonder why, whether it's due to some technical issue or someone got offended again

[darkhorse0607]

39 minutes ago, theSpirea said:

Pre-order email has The Fall of Cadia audiobook "It's a touchstone moment of the Warhammer 40,000 timeline – hear the battle that led to the opening of the Great Rift in this updated audiobook."

Wonder why, whether it's due to some technical issue or someone got offended again

They're changing the narrator. I don't think it was due to someone being offended, but if you look at the audible reviews, the majority of them complain about the narration. Which, imo, was terrible, I even returned the book because of it.

 

It's changing from Mark Elstob to David Seddon who did Justin Hills Cadia Stands

 

It's not the first time, they did a re-recording for the Heresy Thousand Sons books for the same reason

[Ubiquitous1984]

Mark Elstob was also booted from DoF book 1 in favour of John Banks.  
 

I felt Elstob did a decent job with fall of Cadia tbh!  But I’m also the madman who loved the original A Thousand Sons narration.  Gutted it’s gone off my audible without my permission too: that was my media that I paid for!

[darkhorse0607]

No mention of the book in the pre-order article today. So at least they're consistent

[byrd9999]

4 hours ago, Ubiquitous1984 said:

But I’m also the madman who loved the original A Thousand Sons narration.  Gutted it’s gone off my audible without my permission too: that was my media that I paid for!

 

I had no idea Thousand Sons was re-recorded! I have the Martin Ellis version, because the TS are my favourite faction, but I've never made it through the whole thing. It's a real struggle. Martin Ellis' reading is so campy, it's like an episode of the Avengers (Steed & Mrs Peel, Avengers). I love the 1960s Avengers, but grimdark it ain't.

 

Any idea why it was re-recorded, other than it could be done much better?

[sitnam]

On 5/17/2024 at 12:25 PM, grailkeeper said:

I found Gary Klosters Dark Angels books too entry level" but for a brand new setting that weakness is a strength. I don't need to have explained to me what a chaplain is, but explaining what a brand new Aos "Specialis Characterium" or whatever is would be good. If its brand new telling instead of showing isn't so bad.

His Last of the Volari book was really good for what it's worth.