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Authorised - Bill's Monthly
Column
October 2002
Games Day
Well, once again Gamesday has been and
gone, and a good time was had by all. I was at the Black Library stand
for part of the day and signed a good few books. The rest of the time
was spent ligging in the Black Library hospitality suite, or across the
way in the Malt House catching up with old friends like Andy Chambers
and Adrian Smith. Thanks to everybody who came along to the signing, and
to all those people who had kind words for the books. It really is one
of those things that makes writing worthwhile.
As ever I did not get time to see as many
of the displays as I would like. One that did draw my attention was an
amazing mass battle with Gotrek and Felix arriving by ship
to help protect a Slann pyramid from the
insidious machinations of Grey Seer Thanquol. Of particular interest was
the massive warpcannon
atop the pyramid with which the Grey Seer intended to blow up the chaos
moon Morrsleib and send chunks of blazing warpstone crashing down on the
old world. I wish I had thought of that plan.
Wolfblade
Of course, it was not all
enjoying the free tea and biccies provided by the Black Library. After
Gamesday I spent some time within the ancient walls of Lenton,
discussing new books. Possibly the biggest development was being briefed
by Andy Chambers about the Navigator Houses for Wolfblade, the upcoming
Ragnar novel. Many sinister secrets of these ancient and not entirely
trustworthy organisations were passed on to me by the High Overfiend
himself. It looks like Ragnar will be pressed into the service of
House Belisarius amid the palaces of old Terra in a tale that will
involve intrigue, assassination and ancient betrayals, as well as an
elite unit of rogue Space Wolves.
Anybody interested in
learning a little more about Belisarius or the Navigators should check
out Farseer or the Navigator
article I wrote a couple of months back. I may well be
expanding on this in the not too distant future. Release date for
Wolfblade looks like Autumn next year- hopefully just in time for
Gamesday!
Other Stuff
Giantslayer progresses apace, and is just
at the midway point of writing. Our heroes have met Teclis and not a few
Chaos daemons, and are now enjoying the hospitality of the strange
floating village of Crannog Mere in Albion. The final manuscript should
be delivered in November, and on UK release next April.
This will be the last column written in
Prague for a while. I am off to Singapore on the 27th for an
ill-deserved holiday. The next time you hear from me I will hopefully be
lounging under the palm trees.
It’s a dirty job but someone’s got to
do it…
All the best,
Bill
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