Upcoming BL Stuff 2026

[DarkChaplain]

So.... where is my third Annandale Yarrick novel at, BL? The model is going to be the first purely 40k mini I'll be buying in what feels like forever.

At least give me a hardcover book to put in my shelf next to Chains of Golgotha, Imperial Creed and The Pyres of Armageddon!

[theSpirea]

It's mainly the communication. Monday shorts gone, Advent gone, Audio Dramas gone, plenty of series just ended without any communication, atrocious communications when it comes to the whole SoT, especially the LE f*** ups.

Crime and Horror dead. The BL Celebration was one big joke and has been since it was moved to online only due to Covid.

Subjective but quality of covers, especially fonts they use is something I used to do in Photoshop 15 years ago.

BL website gone, forcing people to some s** app?

Quality control of LEs is questionable but to be honest here, it was never that great to begin with but it's getting worse. Some of the SoT are falling apart, misspelled titles on LEs, missing logos, etc

 

[Bestkeptsecret]

https://amzn.eu/d/08LuLLug

 

According to the German Amazon, False Gods by Graham McNeill, the German version in paperback is coming out in June 2026. That means the standard hardcover and the collector's edition will come out in May 2026. I am basing this on the fact that the Horus Rising German paperback edition is coming out in April 2026, but we got the standard hardcover and collector's edition in March. So, if Amazon is saying that the paperback edition of False Gods releases in June, so maybe the standard hardcover and the collector's edition releases sometime in May.

[darkhorse0607]

I, for one, look forward to Helsreach 2: The Reachening

 

"I will die on this world... Again."

[Felix Antipodes]

Do we even know who the faceless people running the BL section even are?  In the early days there were people like Christian Dunn, Marc Gascoigne, and later Laurie Goulding, who were the public faces of BL.  Even Nick Kyme seems to be more author than editor nowadays - for all we know anyway.

I don’t believe BL has declined quality wise, it just gives the impression that nobody cares anymore behind the scenes.  Their output has always been shrugged off as ‘tie-in fiction’ or ‘in-house advertisement for GW, a tax write off’.  Maybe this has become a self fulfilling prophecy?  Why interact with the customer when they will buy anything we put out?

The recent decision to scrap the website and retreat behind a pay wall hasn’t steadied nervous minds about the future of the imprint.  Especially since they can’t even stick to their own plans (nothing changes until the 18th of March when sales cease on the website) but the latest pre-orders were not put up, presumably to try and force customers to use the new app.