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Humble Heresy & Black Library Reloaded

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You may have heard of Humble Bundle; it’s a digital storefront for games, ebooks and other stuff that not only allows people to get some excellent discounts on stuff (for a limited time) but also helps support worthy charities – and you get to pay as much or as little as you want.

And for around the next 13 days, the folks at Black Library are working with the Humble Bundle team to make a very cool Horus Heresy package available, which will benefit the UNHCR refugee agency (along with any other charity organization you mught like to help out). There are price points at $1, $8 and $15 which unlock multiple novels, audio dramas, comics and other stuff.

 


The $1 pack features the first five Horus Heresy novels, including my book The Flight of the Eisenstein and my audio story Oath of Moment. $8 gets you the next five books in the series, including Tales of Heresy which features a short story by me and the Garro audio drama Sword of Truth. Shell out $15 or more and get five more novels, including my 2nd Heresy book Nemesis and the audio Legion of One. It’s all DRM-free, nearly $380’s worth of fiction on sale as cheap as bio-chips, and for a good cause too. Click Here to visit the site and see the whole set of stuff you can get.

And meanwhile, Black Library’s web presence has respawned itself into an independant website this week, which you can visit Here, sign up for the newsletter, get some free fiction and downloadable digital wallpapers.

 


They’ve also launched Tales From The Archive, dropping the prices of classic BL fiction for a short time, and among the discounted releases is the ebook edition of my Warhammer 40,000 novel Deus Encarmine, the first in my Blood Angels series from back in 2004. Check it out Here.

 

GARRO: WEAPON OF FATE out now!

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My newest entry in the Horus Heresy series is officially relased this week: Garro: Weapon of Fate is the definitive compilation of all the Nathaniel Garro stories to date in prose form.

As my esteemed editor Laurie Goulding described the book: “It’s James Swallow’s full novelisation of Nathaniel Garro’s story arc, something we’ve previously only seen (in part) in the audio dramas and novella. There are new and extended scenes, whole new chapters in fact, making this just about the most definitive exploration of the founding of the Knights Errant, and everything that comes after...”

Check out this ace piece of cover artwork from Neil Roberts…

 


The book includes a new introduction, content from the audio dramas Oath of Moment, Legion of One, Sword of Truth, Shield of Lies, Burden of Duty and Ashes of Fealty, plus the Vow of Faith novella and bridging material that collates the whole story into one single epic bind-up.

From out of the shadows of the Silent War, a hero emerges. Clad all in grey, an errant warrior of the Legiones Astartes kneels before the Regent of Terra, and accepts a solemn new duty – Battle-Captain Garro, once commander of the Eisenstein, now Agentia Primus of Malcador the Sigillite. From the desolation of Isstvan to the halls of the Imperial Palace itself, he stands as a paragon of loyalty and protector of the innocent, ever ready to strike back at the traitorous allies of the Warmaster. But Garro is walking a path of his own, one that may lead him to question his own place in the Imperium… and what if he, too, should falter?

As well as the hardcover book, there’s an eBook edition and a 12 hour+ audiobook version narrated by the voice of Garro himself, the mighty Toby Longworth. Click Here to order a copy!

Horus Heresy Weekender 2017 Schedule

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I’m appearing at the official Horus Heresy event this weekend, along with a bunch of my colleagues from the Black Library…
 


Me, Gav Thorpe, Chris Wraight, John French, Neil Roberts and Guy Haley will be talking about our books and signing them too, over Saturday and Sunday at the Nottingham Belfry hotel. There will be some exclusive stuff available in advance of release and it’s likely we’ll spill some secret truths about upcoming works. I can’t confirm or deny if anyone will be wearing war-pelts, though.

I’ll be joining John and Guy on Saturday for the “Road To Terra” and “Black Library Preview” panels at 11:45am and 3:00pm, and on Sunday I’ll be talking about “The Primarchs” with Guy, Gav and Chris from 12:30. I’ll be doing book signings on both days, which will be posted outside the Scribe Station. Hardcover copies of Garro: Weapon of Fate should be available on the day.

 

Black Library Advent Calendar 2016

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An update this weekend from the Black Library Live! 2016 event – BL are continuing their tradition of an advent calendar release for the month of December, publishing 18 eBook short stories and 6 audio dramas from December 1st to Christmas Eve.

The stories will hail from the world of Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, The Horus Heresy and Blood Bowl, and a you’ll be able to pick them up individually or opt in now and get a subscription for reduced cost.

I’ve got a Horus Heresy short story in the mix, but for now we’re keeping stuff under wraps with regards to title and content…

 
 
Across the battlefields of the Horus Heresy where brother fights brother, to the humanity’s final days ten thousand years later, and from the war-torn Mortal Realms where brave heroes fight to save all from the pervasive grip of Chaos, to the astrogranite where teams of skilled Blood Bowl players vie for glory (and gold), there is one constant: great stories packed with action and drama.

That’s what you’ll find in the 2016 Black Library Advent Calendar, with eighteen short stories and six audio dramas telling tales from all four of these diverse worlds, filled with heroes, monsters and mayhem.

To subscribe, visit the BL website Here.

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GARRO: WEAPON OF FATE cover reveal!

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Another week, another cover!

I’ve been writing the adventures of Battle Captain Nathaniel Garro for a while now, ever since I picked up his story in my Horus Heresy novel The Flight of the Eisenstein, and over the years those tales – told in audio drama form – have become fan favourites in the saga. Last year I mixed things up a little with the publication of Vow of Faith, a novella-length prose story, but people have been asking for some time to see more of Nathaniel in book form…and so here he is.


Once again, m’colleague Neil Roberts outdoes himself with another awesome cover for Weapon of Fate, the “complete” (at least for now) saga of Garro’s post-Eisenstein stories all in one volume. Important point to make here – this isn’t a script book or a collection of short fiction. Weapon of Fate is a full-length novel in the Horus Heresy series that gathers together and adapts all of the audio stories (Oath of Moment, Legion of One, Burden of Duty, Ashes of Fealty, Sword of Truth and Shield of Lies) and the Vow of Faith novella into a seamless whole with new connective material and an author afterword.

Here’s the blurb:

From out of the shadows of the Silent War, a hero emerges. Clad all in grey, an errant warrior of the Legiones Astartes kneels before the Regent of Terra, and accepts a solemn new duty – Battle-Captain Garro, once commander of the Eisenstein, now Agentia Primus of Malcador the Sigillite.

From the desolation of Isstvan to the halls of the Imperial Palace itself, he stands as a paragon of loyalty and protector of the innocent, ever ready to strike back at the traitorous allies of the Warmaster.

But Garro is walking a path of his own, one that may lead him to question his own place in the Imperium… and what if he, too, should falter?

The hardback edition of Garro: Weapon of Fate will be available from Black Library in February next year and you can pre-order it here; and if you want to wait for the paperback edition, that’ll be out around late Summer.

And if that’s not enough? Here’s a bonus cover – although it’s just a temporary one for the moment…


2017 will also see Black Library re-releasing my Warhammer 40,000 Sisters of Battle stories in a new omnibus edition – more on that in the months ahead…

Warhammer 40,000 Legends Collection

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Partworks are a thing over here in the UK – handsome collections that build week-by-week into something you will treasure forever, so the adverts say. When I was a kid, I got the massive New Oxford Illustrated Dictionary and The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft that way, and later when I started writing for a living I worked on The Official Star Trek Fact Files, the 007 Spy File and The Official Star Wars Fact File magazines – each issue is part of a larger whole and by the end of the run you usually have a impressive amount of material for your subscription.

Earlier in the year, the people at Hachette Partworks teamed up with Black Library to test-market The Warhammer 40,000 Legends Collection in a similar vein – each issue reprints a hardcover novel from the universe of Warhammer 40,000 and The Horus Heresy in a new larger format with bonus content, subscriber premiums and more. The test was a success, so this week (on Wednesday 7th to be exact) the full release for the collection kicks off, and you can learn all about it at the official website Here.

The Warhammer 40,000 Legends Collection is planned to run for 80 issues and it will feature a few of my novels, alongside work from m’colleagues Dan Abnett, Graham McNeill, Guy Haley, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Chris Wraight, Gav Thorpe, Rob Sanders and others – check it out at your local newsagent or use the link to subscribe direct…