30,000 words isn’t a short story, and it’s not a novel. What does it mean to you, personally? It’s perhaps the only chance you’ll get to do something this cool you have to sign every copy yourself and it’s such a neat little slice of high quality career coolness that you really, really want it to be good.Ĥ. Then there’s the aspect of its value to you as an author and a 40k fan. And that’s a venomous way to work, let alone treat readers.ģ. If it’s not a genuinely insightful contribution, no one will want it, and worse, you’ll be churning it out “just because”.
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It has to be something new, unseen, and it needs to add to the Horus Heresy series as a useful, genuine contribution. This needs to be about something awesome enough for people to actually want, so it can’t be about something completely tangential. It’s getting specialist (and expensive) artwork, it’s certainly not cheap to print, and it’s extremely limited edition. But then there’s the matter of its value to the fans. Your editor says, as a guideline, that he prefers that it’s not something front and centre to the whole series.Ģ. You need to write something that isn’t essential to the main story arc, because it will be available to so few people. You’re immediately caught between a rock and a hard place. Your publisher asks you to write a Horus Heresy novella. “For the sake of argument, look at it from my point of view. So here it is, for curiosity’s sake, and future Cut ‘n Paste expedience:
I just had another angle, and one that I’m posting here because I’m sure I’ll end up posting it across X number of forums before and after my novella comes out. I thought that was pretty interesting in regards to just how massively it opposed my own perspective on the whole deal. But it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth that Black Library has even fell into Games Workshop’s recent money-making schemes.” I don’t like it, and sure, who is actually going to give four fith’s of a fuck what some whining member on a 40k discussion site says? Certainly not the folks in Nottingham.
But Black Library, I feel are playing the fanbase for money. If they were not limited edition, especially if it was something I’d really like. I’d happily pay £40 for a novella, in time. And yet this wealth of information shall be confined to 1000 people? Sure, it shall be shared upon the internet with reviews, but that’s like me ordering you to read a review of Horus Rising without buying it. He is writing a novella that centers around -arguably- the most important event within the Horus Heresy (Or Great Crusade to be picky). How many Salamanders fans and most importantly: Players, are there out there?ĪDB, one of Black Libraries most popular authors, especially amongst the ”newer” readers. Nick Kyme shall be writing a novella centered around the Salamanders, probably Post-Isstvan V. I feel that it’s denying fans fluff, or canon, especially about the Horus Heresy, as these novella’s seem to be linked to characters, events or themes within the regular series. It’s the limited number of copies that I dislike. My, and many others, frustration dosen’t come from the prices.
“I think that we are ignoring the main issue, to be honest. Specifically, someone (who we shall name “bobss”, for t’was his name) had a wealth of objections to the process: But it’s about my publisher’s limited edition novella range, and specifically the Horus Heresy titles. Now, this’ll either be fairly interesting to the unwashed masses that waste their time here, or be completely boring (for which I apologise, yo). I was doing my usual forum bounces recently, when I should’ve been working, and came across a bit of a gem on Heresy-Online.