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BLOOD DEBT is back in print

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Back when I started writing for Black Library’s Warhammer 40,000 tie-in series, My first novels were the Blood Angels duology Deus Encarmine and Deus Sanguinius (later collected in The Blood Angels Omnibus); one of the key characters on those books was the manipulative Inquisitor Ramius Stele, and as part of the project I wrote “Blood Debt“, a short story prequel detailing Stele’s fall from grace and guest-starring the notorious Blood Angel captain Erasmus Tycho.

“Blood Debt” was originally going to appear in the pages of Inferno!, BL’s short fiction & comics anthology magazine, but when Inferno! was cancelled the story was stuck in limbo for a time, first popping up in the print-on-demand anthology The Book of Blood and then later included in The Blood Angels Omnibus.

This week, as part of their Quick Reads digital eBook program, BL has re-released “Blood Debt” as a stand-alone short, and you can download it Here to check out this ‘missing link’…

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You Are Hearing Me Talk… about Warhammer 40,000: Regicide

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Another day, another podcast – and here’s me joining my pal Adam Rosser from BBC Radio 5 Live and Eurogamer’s Christian Donlan to talk about videogames, specifically Hammerfall Publishing’s new Warhammer 40,000 chess-strategy-action title Regicide – now available via Steam Early Access – on the newest episode of Game On.


Click Here to download the episode.

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You Are Hearing Me Talk…to Forge The Narrative

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I was invited on to chat with the folks from Forge The Narrative this week – an in-depth podcast show about the worlds of Warhammer 40,000 and the Horus Heresy – and you can check out what I had to say on Episode 95 of the show right Here from the 49 mins mark… 


The audio from my end gets a little choppy in places (which is either a result of my sucky internet connection or interference from the warp) but stick with it, as we have some great discusssions on the Blood Angels, the Heresy and more. Thanks to Paul Murphy and Chris Morgan for being great hosts!

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Coming Soon – The Horus Heresy: Fear To Tread Collector’s Edition

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As part of the ongoing plan to re-release the entire Horus Heresy saga in glorious doorstop-sized hardbacks, Black Library have rolled around to bringing my Blood Angels adventure Fear To Tread into the ‘Collector’s Edition’ format.

Like the other books in the hardcover series, this new version of Fear To Tread comes with a author’s afterword written by me and a bunch of new internal art by Wayne England to join Neil Roberts’s awesome death-metal cover, and the book will be on sale very soon…


Since the earliest days of the Great Crusade, Sanguinius – angelic primarch of the IX Legion – was ever among the closest and most loyal of Horus’s brothers.
 

But the Blood Angels have long kept their true nature hidden from the rest of the Imperium, and when the Warmaster hints that the key to their salvation may lie in the ruins of a conquered world, the sons of Sanguinius race to claim it.

Now, as the revelation of their betrayal dawns and the traitors’ hand is revealed, the Blood Angels must face all the warp-spawned armies of Chaos, as well their own personal daemons, upon the blasted plains of Signus Prime…

To visit the Black Library website and pre-order a copy of the Fear To Tread collector’s edition in either dead-tree or digital form, Click Here.

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Out Now – The Horus Heresy: Nemesis Unabridged Audiobook Edition

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Nemesis is a novel that will forever have a special place in my heart; first and foremost, because it was the first thing I wrote that ever made it to proper “bestseller” status, breaking on to the New York Times book chart in August of 2010; but also because it’s one of the most experimental novels in the Horus Heresy series and a work that represented a genuine challenge for me.

 
Set against the backdrop of a galactic insurrection, Nemesis a mix of black ops action-thriller and serial killer murder mystery, and it remains the most off-tempo of the books I’ve written for Black Library – and now if you so please, you can sit back and listen to just under fifteen hours of plot and counter-plot in this new unabridged audiobook version read by Jonathan Keeble.

After the horrors of Istvaan V, Horus declares outright war against the Imperium. In the shadows of the Emperor’s Palace, powerful figures convene.

Their plan is to send a team of assassins to execute the arch-traitor Horus and end the war for the galaxy of mankind before it’s even begun.

But what they cannot know is that another assassin is abroad already, with his sights firmly set on killing the Emperor.

To visit the Black Library website, listen to an extract and get a digital copy of Nemesis, Click Here.

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You Are Hearing Me Talk…about Sisters of Battle with The Independent Characters

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The folks over at The Indpendent Characters podcast talk in-depth and on-target about the worlds of Warhammer 40,000 and the Horus Heresy, and this week they invited me on to discuss one of my favorite 40K factions, the steadfast Sisters of Battle known as the Adepta Sororitas…

As part of my fiction for the Warhammer 40,000 franchise, I’ve written two novels and an audio drama featuring the Battle Sisters – Faith & Fire, Hammer & Anvil, Red & Black – and I have a lot of love for the nuns with guns.

Click Here to check out this episode of Show Of Force, where The Indpendent Characters crew unpack a 40K army in great detail, and you can listen to host Carl Tuttle interviewing me at the 2:47 mark

Incidentally; that awesome piece of Sororitas artwork I’ve used as a companion to this posting is the work of Nicholas Kay, and you shoud totally check out his portfoilo Here, or just click on the smaller image to see the full magnificence of “Massacre At Sanctuary 101” on his DeviantArt page.

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