Nick Kyme

Howdy doody, just returned from Leeds and my signing at Travelling Man. Had a great time, sold a few books and chatted a bunch with Nabil (the store manager) who is awesome. Cheers for the coffee and for having me, guys – Anthea (and I) really appreciated the cushions, btw.

And on this lovely sunny day, I was struck by inspiration in a Pret a Manger of all places! Yup, we were just heading back to the car and a short trip home when Anth needed a stop off for some food. She was in the queue to be served (by the most laborious staffer in the world, it transpires – sorry, dude, but your slow service was poor) and I was sitting by the window, sun streaming in, and I was hit with my opening scene for the GD short I’m writing.

So, having thrashed it out in the car to figure the rest. I now have the entire thing planned out and ready to go – bwoop! (which, by the way, is the new ‘woot’ only much, much better ).

I’m taking a v. short break from Nocturne (which stands at 64,000+) to get this 5,000 worder nailed and hit a deadline for the first time in yonks. It’s got Marines Malevolent, it’s got Tu’Shan, it’s got refugees and all that stuff (you know the one, come on, say it with me…). It’s Armageddon and a certain well known ‘altercation’ between two particular characters. However, in a dramatic and surprising twist, this is merely the epilogue on a story that really focuses on a Sister Hospitaller called Athena. You’ll have to wait until UKGD to read it, though.

Right, that’s you lot. Enjoy the sun. Post some nice reviews for Damnos on Amazon or something will ya (it’s looking lonely with its single review) and I’ll see you later, taters. Bwoop!

PS Signing pics on FB – check ‘em out.

Quickie. I’m in Leeds tomorrow at the Travelling Man comic store signing copies of Fall of Damnos. For those who missed me at Warhammer World and BL Live, please come along and say hello, ask questions and get your book signed.

Here’s a link to the Travelling Man website events page with a little more info (i.e. an address).

Book signing is from 1pm until 2pm so get there promptly or you’ll miss me.

Ta, ta.

Yo, sorry that it’s been a while. I would make some promises that I’d be a better and more frequent blogger in the future but fact is I’ve said that before and still I lapse. Let’s just say, I’ll blog when I can but when in the midst of a serious bout of writing I just don’t always have the time.

So, some thoughts of Promethean Sun. Well, I’m obviously hugely pleased it has been so popular. I never actually looked at all the Facebook stuff I’d be hearing about bemoaning BL’s decision to make this limited ed, nor will I. I wrote this story knowing that it wouldn’t be read by all the fans, at least not right now (it will be available in a couple of years, which does suck a bit I suppose), so there’s nothing hugely revelatory in it. I’m working on two other ideas that sort of link to the story, at least in so far that they’re Horus Heresy era and have the Salamanders and Vulkan as their main protagonists. So, sorry if you’re miffed that you didn’t get a copy. I reckon all the absolute die-hards must have one, though. Despite initial reports, due to the website kind of breaking, Promethean Sun was available for a few days. It’s great being the one who starts something (i.e. the first ever HH limited ed novella) but you’re also kind of a guinea pig for finding out the wrinkles in the system.

Okay, enough of that. On to Nocturne. I’m about 56,000 words in and finally starting to see how this thing is going to shape up. Wow, third books in trilogies are really hard to write. There was so much to remember, so much time opening old files from the previous two novels and checking things. At times it’s been hellish.

I guess that’s part of the reason I’m sat in my kitchen with Shakespeare chewing my cabinets and causing general carnage, and not out enjoying the holiday time. I booked three extra days off you see. On account of the Royal Wedding malarky, it sort of turns into an eleven day holiday instead of two chunky weekends. I took the three days. I’m planning on reaching 70,000 words by the end of it and having a big fat slice of the novel done; I just needed this blog time as a warm-up.

Oh, I have a short story to write too. That, I promised my editor for the end of this uber-break. Depending on whether or not I get that 70k in the bag will determine the truth of that statement. I figured that if I write 2k a day for the entire break (with time off to watch movies, go out, have a few beers, go tobogganing, train for a half-marathon/triathlon – see how my time is so full?) then I’d get to the golden mark of 70k. If I get ahead and do some bonus words then I’ll get on to the short story too. It’s only 5k but could be a bit of a derailer as far as the novel is concerned, so I need to be careful.

In other writing news, if you’re in and around Leeds next Saturday then get your butts over to Travelling Man for about 1pm. I’ll be there signing Fall of Damnos and anything you put in front of me with my name on it. I’ll also answer questions about Promethean Sun and the Tome of Fire trilogy if you’ve still got any.

Okay, I reckon that’ll do by way of warm-up. Enjoy the time off if you’ve got it; if not, don’t work too hard. Catch you later.

Wow, what a crazy ass day it’s been. Between actually working, I’ve been checking out the BL site as Promethean Sun sold out in just a few hours. It was so fast, we’d done over a 1,000 in one hour and pretty much broke the website in the process.

A huge thank you to everyone who bought a copy. I thoroughly hope you’ll enjoy it. This is kind of part one of a much longer HH saga for the Salamanders that I’m going to continue next year but I can’t tell you how (I hate it when people do that – sorry ). Oh, and the eagle-eyed readers amongst you should be on the look out for a cheeky link to current 40K and the Salamanders series which I also write.

If you didn’t manage to get your hands on a copy of the novella then fear not for because we broke the website and the staggering demand for this product, it actually had to be taken off sale just before we ran out. There are a few copies left (not many, mind you) and you have a second chance to order one at 12pm (GMT) Monday April 18th…

A link to the BL site with a few more details is right here.

My new Horus Heresy novella featuring Vulkan and the Salamanders is released today.

There will only be 3,000 copies printed and they’re at less than half already. If you don’t want to miss out, get over to the BL site post haste…

Here’s the linky…