This coming weekend, it's another two days of Black Library badsassery at the newest event in the BL calendar, The Horus Heresy Weekender.
Running across Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th May, the Black Library and Forge World teams will be at the Nottingham Belfry Hotel talking, gaming and signing stuff. As usual, there will be some exclusive stuff on sale, including The Imperial Truth, a limited edition Horus Heresy anthology featuring "All That Remains", a short story by me.

I'll be joined by Graham McNeill, Dan Abnett, John French, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Gav Thorpe, Neil Roberts, Rob Sanders, Nick Kyme, Alan Bligh, Phil Stutcinskas, Mark Bedford, Simon Egan, Blake Spence, Keith Robertson, Will Hayes, Rhys Pugh, Daren Parrwood, Stuart Williamson, Tony Cottrell, Alan Merrett, Laurie Goulding and Rob Sanders.

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Here's May's 'Coming Soon' update on future projects and events:

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Back in January I mentioned that I have a new original novel called Enigma coming out in May, as part of the world of the Tannhäuser board game; Tannhäuser takes place a dieselpunk alternate history set in a 1950's world where the First World War never ended, and the global powers fight an endless conflict using super-science, dark magic and recovered alien technology...

The free nations have joined together to form the Union under the keen leadership of President Thomas Edison, while the lands of the European Reich lie under a cloud of demonic darkness.

Meanwhile, the mighty Matriarchy, thanks to the mystical technology of Nikolai Tesla, has ushered in a new age of gods; and in the Far East, Emperor Meiji has united Japan once more. Its armies now march toward the mainland to join the struggle for power.

Balance will never be found while the war still rages, for there can be only one victor. That victory will determine the fate of man.

When the occult-obsessed Reich unveils a weapon with the power to imbue grant its army demonic powers, RAF pilot Nick Cross and special agent Caitlin “Hoax” Lambsbury must join forces with unlikely allies to capture the device at any cost.

In the face of overwhelming odds, can these two agents survive long enough to complete their mission? Prepare for a gripping battle to determine the fate of the world!

Engima will be on sale soon, but you can download a PDF of chapter one right Here, right now...


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Back in 1997, I made a decision that would change the course of my entire life. I quit my job - my nice, normal Earth job - to become a writer full time. I've blogged about this before, but I think it bears repeating, and not just because I'm taking the opportunity to give myself a pat on the back. My independence proves that it can be done. To every wannabe writer out there who fears that they could never make the leap to supporting themselves through their work, I can tell you this: I did it. I'm still doing it.

I'm not going to kid you, it was a big thing. Back in '97, when Comet Halle-Bopp was in the skies, TSR was bought out by Wizards of the Coast and we all had high hopes for The Phantom Menace, there was no certainty I could make a career out of this writing thing. But I was never fearful, not really...because I knew it was the right thing for me to do.

And I can say, hand on heart, that I have never once regretted it, not even in the darkest days of my freelance life. I'm a a writer; I think have been all my life, it was just on that day that I finally owned that realization. So here I am, sixteen years on, my writing career is now old enough to ride a moped or buy a lottery ticket, and I can say that yeah, I did all this...and I'm not done yet.


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Originally posted by iamtwblog at Scribe Award nominees announced!

Once more, the folks at the excellent Trek.FM podcast site have asked me to come back and chat to them some more about my Star Trek writing, and this time I'm talking about my new Star Trek: The Next Generation novella The Stuff of Dreams, available now in eBook format.

Mattew Rushing and his co-host Christopher Jones presents the Literary Treks podcast discussing Star Trek novels and comics, and if you're a fan of the "expanded universe" of Trek fiction, their regular show features an in-depth an thoughtful dissection of the stories beyond the screen.

It all started years ago with an idea revolving around that unusual spatial anomoly in Generations. It ended with the commissioning of a Next Generation novella called The Stuff of Dreams.

In this episode of Literary Treks we’re joined by James Swallow to talk about his new story that centers on Captain Jean-Luc Picard and goes a long way—in just 94 pages—toward fleshing out the inner workings of one of Starfleet’s greatest captains.

Spoilers abound in this interview, so make sure you read the novella first...

Once again, thanks for Matt and Chris for having me on the show! Check out the interview Here (starting at the 43:42 mark; I had a cold, so I apologise for sounding a little stuffed-up) or subscribe to Literary Treks via iTunes Here.

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This week, my new Star Trek The Next Generation eBook novella The Stuff of Dreams went live, and it's available now for Kindle users from Amazon, for iPad via iBooks, on Nook, Kobo and pretty much every kind of padd-like device you might wish to have it on.

When Captain Picard is summoned back to the mysterious space-time phenomenon known as the nexus, he and his crew become embroiled in a desperate plot to rewrite history, no matter what the cost.

As I noted downblog, The Stuff of Dreams centres on Picard and acts as a return of sorts to Star Trek Generations. The novella's picks up after the events of the Cold Equations trilogy by David Mack (and contains spoilers for those books).

I'm pleased to say reader response has been pretty strong so far, and in the weeks ahead I'm going to be discussing this story on a couple of Star Trek podcasts, so more on that to come...

A few posts downblog I mentioned musician Alexander Norman (aka ADN Compositions) who had been inspired by my Horus Heresy book Fear To Tread to create an epic track based on the events of the novel; and now he's done it again, this time with a piece called "To The Brink", with inspiration taken from my first Horus Heresy tale The Flight of the Eisenstein. It's pretty damn cool.

Check it out here!

Here's March's 'Coming Soon' update on future projects and events:

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