Nick Kyme

Evening peeps!

Check it out… the latest Space Marine anthology came back from the printers today. Legends of the Space Marines is looking rather awesome, and what a bloater!

This sweet baby (to emulate the linguistic idioms of Norville Barnes – 10 points if you can tell me the reference) is packing a monstrous 544 pages of pure, unadulterated Space Marine action. It’s brutal!

Coupled with a storming coming from Hardy Fowler and stories from the likes of James Swallow, Graham McNeill and some dubious fellow called Aaron-Dembski Bowden and you’ve got quite a collection. Oh, and not forgetting little old me of course… ‘Hell Night’ is the lead story in the collection, the first time I’ve been afforded that honour and for all you Salamander junkies out there it’s the next installment in the saga.

It’s a fair few months before Legends of the Space Marines hits the shelves, but you can read a little extract from ‘Hell Night’ in the latest Black Library Previews Catalogue, which you can find in GW stores in March. Splendid stuff!

On the subject of short stories, ‘Hell Night’ and Legends of the Space Marines represents the start of small flurry of Salamander stories coming to you later in the year.

Next up, or rather first up, is ‘The Burning’. This tale shares the BL Live chapbook with ‘Feast of Horrors’ by the rather fine gentleman that is Chris Wraight. I went for something a little different this time, a story from Dak’ir’s point of view but it won’t be something you’re expecting, I guarantee it.

Later in the year is ‘Prometheus Requiem’ in Fear the Alien. This is a very special story featuring one of Tsu’gan’s missions as part of the Firedrakes. I won’t say why it’s special, but you’ll hopefully figure that out when you read it.

Oh, in related news, I listened to the first fx edit of Fireborn yesterday and it is sounding very cool indeed. I’ve yet to hear the music edit, but Chris tells me it’s shaping up nicely. Hopefully, I’ll be able to show off some cover art soon…

Lastly, but not leastly (?), Firedrake is on the cusp of 30,000 words. This represents a significant chunk of the book (almost the first third). I’m really building up a head of steam with this now. I’ve hit all my mini-milestones and might (with luck) even get a little ahead. It has represented a huge effort on my part to crack this, but I’m on the way now and, man, does it feel good. I’ve been tested against Vulkan’s anvil and have emerged on the other side – reforged.

Take it easy, folks.