Nick Kyme

Hey fans! Yup, it’s three posts today. Making up for lost time.

Saturday it’s BL Live 2012 and here’s my line-up for the day:

1.45-2.45 Signing Desk (I’ll have The Primarchs, plus anything else you care to bring along)

3.00-4.00 Seminar Room 1 – Horus Heresy (this is a panel about the NYT bestselling series and will touch on future projects)

4.15-5.15 Seminar Room 1 – New Stuff Q&A (exactly what it says on the tin – I’ll have my editor’s hat on for this one)

See you there!

Like I said earlier, multiple posts – gadzooks!

Okies, so here’s what I’ve been working on/what’s out and coming out for my goodself at the moment.

Out now – Nocturne has been out since November and kicking celebrated ass as the finale to my Tome of Fire trilogy about the Salamanders. There are some cliffhangers and that’s because I am returning to the Chapter and some of the characters (plus new ones) in a new book around 2013.

Also… Dwarfs. If you can can’t wait for The Great Betrayal then you can always get hold of this omnibus edition by myself and fellow author Gav Thorpe. It contains three stand alone novels about the dwarfs (well, duh…), a short story by Gav and a cut down version of the old hard to find background book Grudgelore. Oh, and both authors have written an intro too.

Coming out soon – The Primarchs in which I have a novella ‘Feat of Iron’, which is about Ferrus Manus of the Iron Hands and really delves into his psyche and how he sees himself ranked up against the other primarchs. It runs concurrently with the storyline of Promethean Sun but is in no way dependent on that story. There some pretty f*!king awesome revelations in it about Ferrus Manus and a hint about what’s to come in the next phase of the Heresy storyline too. It’s previewed at BLL and released ‘officially’ in June 2012.

Perfection is my fourth (ish) audio drama and it’s all about a warband of the Emperor’s Children called the Incarnadine Host. It’s a bit different as it’s kind of a battlefield mystery story but with lots of extremely visceral action, and a killer twist. The read through was done last week and now it’s off to be recorded. Expect it around October 2012.

And what I’m working on right now – The Great Betrayal. My first Time of Legends book set during the War of Vengeance has been a right bast to get into shape. With a six book series, my first experience of working in tandem with another author, and this being the first book has meant I’ve really had to find new levels of dedication and ingenuity to make this work. It’s now well on track, over 70,000 words down (out of a likely 120,000) and slated for a November 2012 release.

And soon to be on my writing desk – Tome of Fire. For all Salamander fans everywhere, this is an anthology of all my short stories for the Salamanders. It also includes the audio drama Fireborn and will contain a brand new novella (which is where the work comes from). Rare gems such as The Burning will also be in there (that was a chapbook story from BLL 2009 – I think) and I might see if Emperor’s Deliverance will fit in too (it’s more focused on Marines Malevolent but does have a rather cool cameo by Tu’Shan).

Scorched Earth is next up. This is a Horus Heresy novella that won’t be limited edition but will be a forerunner to a later novel I have in the works. It’s set in the aftermath of Isstvan V and features two Salamander characters searching for Vulkan’s body amongst the ruins and devastation. Expect a cameo from one of the Iron Hands in ‘Feat of Iron’ too… Oh, and the cover by Neil Roberts is absolutely stunning. Very moody and something rather different for the Horus Heresy, not really seen before.

That’s your lot. Further out is well… top secret at the moment. Updates will filter through BL’s site as usual.

Catch me at BLL2012 on Saturday to get my sig on The Primarchs or anything else you care to bring.

I’ll cut to the chase shall I? I have been phenomenally crap about blogging. Rubbish. Yes, I know. Part of the reason for this is that I’ve been working like an absolute beast on TGB (The Great Betrayal) and haven’t had the time to eat/sleep let alone blog.

In light of the fact that I now have a longer deadline (and thank God, basically, as I was losing my mind and in danger of going off the deep end I – writing whilst working a full time job is bloody hard. I don’t recommend it…) I have a solution.

Listen to this…

Tuesday nights I go bowling. It’s extremely cathartic and when I’m on form I’m actually pretty good at it too. It means I don’t usually get much/enough time to do much writing beyond the 500 words I get in at lunch. I figure then that I can use this time more productively to post a blog.

In fact, I want to open it out to you fair reader (assuming there are still a few of you out there that is? And I hope there are…). Give me a topic you’d like me to blog about, something you’re interested in knowing my take on that relates to what I do as a writer or writing in general. I’ll even field stuff on movies and computer games. If I have an opinion of it, I’ll voice it. Nothing rude or dodgy please – that’ll just get spammed and I won’t be your friend any more. 

Course, I’ll also blog about random stuff too, provide updates as to work progress (for the most part on that score, refer to Twitter or you can also get me on Facebook as my tweets go there too), signings, Shakespeare’s antics and general musings.

Oh, the other reason for the lack of bloggage is I’ve kind of been using Twitter as a blog substitute. It’s quicker, easier and I like the bite sized chunk style of the interface. Keep your ass over to Twitter, get an account and go follow me @NickKyme if you want to be get up to date with everything.

That said, weekly blog posts will be my aim (on a Tuesday evening, probably) from now on. I’ll also try and put art up on here too as BL let me.

This’ll be the place for extracts too, which I’m going to start posting up on a regular basis as well. If there’s anything else you want to see in my blogosphere then shout out and I’ll see about adding it. Oh, any questions or anything of that nature – I’ll get a bunch together and answer them all at once in a post so everyone gets the benefit.

If I’m feeling particularly frisky, I my even post more than one blog entry *gasp*. Yes! That’s right. Boosh!

So, my apologies for leaving you all hanging with nothing new to read. That’s gonna change from here on out. Keep checking the tweets because they’re the most prolific source of news but here’s where you get the meat for your potatoes.