Man vs Clayliens!
Welcome one and all, welcome back and hello 2012!
Normally, I provide some sort of retrospective on 2011 but as I am busier than a busy thing I’m going to forego that tradition in favour of a short blog (with pictures) and then get on with The Great Betrayal. What I will say, just briefly, is this is the year I finished a trilogy! Bwoop!
Yep, Nocturne is the last book in the Tome of Fire trilogy (sort of…) and I am heartily pleased by A) the fan reaction and B) that I finished this epic story. Some bloggers, Facebookers, Tweeters (etc, etc) have commented that it still has some loose ends a la Lost. That’s deliberate, folks. I am returning to the Salamanders this year/next year (that’s 2012/2013 now) for the Circle of Fire trilogy where some of those threads will be taken up and run with.
I’ve actually just finished writing and scripting my fourth (I thik that’s right…) audio drama for BL, Perfection, which has some connective tissue in it to the upcoming new series.
This was also the year that I wrote my second Horus Heresy novella, Feat of Iron (which is to be released in June in The Primarchs collection). Together with another new short story (’At the Gates of Terra’) and my previous works in the series, a novel is on the cards in the near future.
Going back to the Sallies, I mentioned that the Tome of Fire trilogy wasn’t completely done with. That’s because there’s going to be a fourth volume that will come out between Nocturne and the next book in the new trilogy (tentatively titled Rebirth at the moment, which may change if the sales and marketing daemons don’t like it…). It’s actually going to be a collection of all the short stories (including the audio) that tie-in to the series and include some of the main characters (oh, The Burning will be in there too – I know a few people have contacted me on FB about how to get hold of that one).
Contents (but not running order) looks something like this, I believe:
Vulkan’s Shield
Hell Night
Fires of War
Fireborn
Prometheus Requiem
The Burning
I’ll also be writing an exclusive novella for the book. Hopefully, this will come as welcome news to fans of the series who want a complete collection for their bookshelves. It’ll have the same artwork style as previous volumes and fit in nicely with the three main books of the series.
So, what was supposed to be a fairly short retrospective turned into a rather long one.
In really brief, brief then, Christmas was awesome (hope yours was too) and although I’ve eaten more than I usually would (and not as healthily) and not been running, I still feel pretty trim. This is the year I will run round Silverstone and, hopefully, do the Great North Run in Newcastle. Training begins in earnest on Tuesday when I’m back in the office (oh, that’s tomorrow…).
And finally, finally, in 2011 I joined Twitter and have sent a bunch of tweets. Follow me @NickKyme for my various comings and goings. I’m now part of a bowling league too. I also met my wonderful lady, Stef. Here we are at New Year looking all swanky pants.
It's New Year, baby!
I went clay pigeon shooting for the first time too, and here’s the pix (if you follow me on Twitter and have been waiting for these, some technical difficulties prevented me putting them up but here they are now…).
Bring the rain!
Death to all clayliens!
In the words of Clarence Boddiker, 'Guns, guns, guns!'
Stay still you wascelly wabbit... (of course, I was shooting clays and not rabbits; anyone who does that should be shot in the arse if you ask me... grrr...)
So, now I can wield a shotgun with deadly force. Bring on the zombie apocalypse! 
It’s been a packed and eventful 2011 then. Here’s hoping that 2012 will be even better.
Love, life and happines to everyone who comes to the blog, friends and messages me on Facebook, reads my tweets or who simply just like reading my novels and stories. Keep up the support, spread the word. There’s much more to come in 2012 and beyond.
And come back, y’hear. I know I don’t blog as much (busy writing) but let’s see some comments gang… 
Bwoop!
Nick Kyme is an editor and author who originally hails from Grimsby, a small town on the east coast of England.
January 2nd, 2012 at 12:42 pm
Oh, fantastic news. I can’t wait for more Salamander goodness…
Good luck for the new year, and good health and happiness all around.
January 2nd, 2012 at 12:54 pm
happy new year nick
2012 is going to be a good year, dwarfs and sallies, cant wait
January 2nd, 2012 at 6:11 pm
To paraphrase the famous Mostly Harmless blurb, Rebirth: The fourth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Tome of Fire Trilogy. Can’t wait to read it. Happy New Year Nick!
January 4th, 2012 at 5:59 am
Good to hear (read) that the Salamanders are coming back. A staple of 40k fiction right now. We need more loyalist fiction, that heretic you call Aaron Dembski Bowden is stealing the hearts of the fans right now.
February 16th, 2012 at 2:21 pm
First of all sorry for my poor english . I am a huge french fan of your books (which are not all translate
) . Happy new year Mister Kyme .
I have a lot of question , but I will just ask one , and if you have the time to answer me it would be great .
When you had wrote the Salamanders book , for the event which happen on Nocturne , have you use a map for the locations everywhere on the surface ?
If it is yes , is it posible to have a small pictures of it , please ?
Anyway , I am happy to know that you will come back to my favourite chapter , so good luck for writing (and perhaps a HH book to with Vulkan and the 9 artefact ), and May the Force be with you , always
February 16th, 2012 at 4:50 pm
Many thanks, Thomas (and your English is much better than my French, sir
). Happy New Year to you too. I didn’t really use a map to chart out the locations and events that take place on Nocturne as I didn’t really want to apply limits and boundaries to the planet. I did have a very good idea as to what regions certain things were in and therefore how they related to one another. I might, however, produce a map for the omnibus edition, taking all the notes I’ve written about the locations and realising that in pictoral form. Good idea.
Thanks for the support. Glory to Vulkan!
February 24th, 2012 at 11:43 pm
Thanks for the answer Mr Kyme ! It would be great to have in the Omnibus of BL , this sort of addendum is great for the reader to make him “real” a book .
I know that as an author of the Warhammer 40k universe you must have a lot of questions from your fans , and I don’t want to waste your precious time , but , if possible , I wanted to know where is the better place to ask you question , make any suggestion …. ?
Again thanks for you time and the beautiful and humanistic vision of the Salamanders !
“Dans les Feux de la Bataille;sur l’Enclume de la Guerre!”
February 29th, 2012 at 1:21 pm
Hi Thomas, here on the blog is definitely the best place to ask a question. I’m going to be blogging regularly on a Tuesday and part of that process will be gathering up the questions from fans and trying to answer them. So ask away!
And thank you so much for your kind words. Seems I’ve got some maps to draw… :S