* Write high quality commer-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

How about die in a fire

>>14556889
Bit strong. No would suffice

Worth doing just for the interview...

>>14556877

marketing plans... for BL?
...hard mode, this....

Oh shit, this is in my city (Nottingham UK).

Too bad I've never read a single 40k novel.

I'm new here, is this shit real or troll? Has this happened before?

>>14557014
So. Apply. If you get an interview, you may get a tour of the secret lair.
>>14557031
Well, a trip to the BL website would prove it to be real.

That's a low salary.

Fuck...

I'm going to have to send in my resume...

>>14557031
The Black Library is a real publisher.

>>14557064

It's more than 4 times what I'm pulling now, so you can't really knock it...

Here's a marketing plan for you....

Fire Matt Ward.

Establish canon that CANNOT be fucked with. I.E. "This is how shit went down. This is the story. This is who was involved. Any deviation and you get sacked. Any "Spicing up" and you get sacked. Any Spiritual Liege...and you will get beaten with a sack. Full of doorknobs and scorpions."

Watch GM profits soar.

>>14557080
What are you doing now? It can't be full-time.

someone go to that interview!

you might get the chance to kill matt ward!

>>14557064
Marketing Assistant is an over subscribed role, however. It's about the same wage a Local News Reporter would get.

And it's a foot in the door of publishing land

>>14557074
I was asking if this is the 1st time that a publisher/company looks for people directly posting on /tg/

I could't get this position anyway, I'm Italian, I'm just curious about this

>>14557104
Its just a copy paste. Do you actually think they're recruiting on another site?

Shiiiiiiiit. This would be my dream job. If I had any experience and/or talent with 40k painting/sculpting/anything whatsoever.

On a related note, Reaper Mini are always looking for talented drawfags on a commission basis. Too bad I can't draw either, fuck.

>>14557104
OP here.
Fuck no. I just saw it on BL website (it's one of my feeds) and posted it here.

fa/tg/uys quite often post jobs for games companies here.

Also, aren't GW hiring in italy at the mo? Probably for a someone to organise Bunga Bunga parties for Matt Ward.

>Black Library
>Marketing
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
WHATAHAHAHAHAHA WHATS NEXT?
A CUSTOMER SUPPORT IN GW?

>>14557132
Then you are a bro among fa/tg/uys, thanks about the clarification. I found wierd that a company would post job ads on this site, that's what interested me.

I don't give an f is GW is hiring in Italy, I don't wargame and I don't know who Matt Ward is.

>>14557161
He's the Berlusconi of the Wargaming world.

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Getting-Started/FAQ-Working-For-Black-Library.html

>The next open submissions window will begin May 2011.

Woops, knew I forgot somthing. TIME TO WRITE A NOVEL IN LESS THAN A MONTH.

>>14557184
Well, you have at least 10 weeks.

And also, it's 12thousand words.

You can do that.

>>14557141

They've got plenty of people working in Customer Support, it's any sort of Quality Control division they don't have.

Like, at all. Even on a philisophical level.

>>14556877
Sounds like a fun job- but then, to get it I'd have to read all the GW books. Some sacrifices are too great.

>Past experience tells us that we’ll receive many hundreds of submissions, even during such a short submissions window. Responding to every single one would take up valuable time better spent working on the fantastic novels and short stories that are worthy of publication.

>Your novel will never be worthy of publication

Her eyes were pools of oceans

>>14557260
Her arms were slender slabs of meaty sinew and tough, wiry nerve a-throbbing with electrical impulses. Her skin was white like anthrax.

>>14557096
>> What are you doing now? It can't be full-time.

It's not...

I'm a freelance (crappy) artist, semi-professional writer who's been reduced to writing homoerotic fiction for table scraps while trying to take care of my wife who received a brain injury right before giving birth and now has uncontrollable seizures, so she can't work so thus no longer qualifies for health care.

So yah, I'd relocate to the UK and write grimderp for 36k a year.

I'd fix Mat Ward's bullshit while I'm at it if the let me... It's not really all that hard actually, a single novel about the corruption and slow decline of one generation of Grey Knights could do it...

>>14557260

Is that a quote?

>>14557184

That's not all that hard.

I once wrote a novel in three weeks, edited and all (unlike my posts here) involving the back story of Prince Nuada from Hellboy 2

Sadly Dark Horse wouldn't even look at it..

>>14557177
You mean is a bald, old, perverted nutjob that somehow was elected as PM?

>>14557290
Dude, that's... brutal. All symphathies to you. Dare I ask about your kid?

>>14557131
>>On a related note, Reaper Mini are always looking for talented drawfags on a commission basis. Too bad I can't draw either, fuck.

Can you provide a link?

>>14557323
>> Dude, that's... brutal. All symphathies to you. Dare I ask about your kid?

The accident left our car a smoking wreak but actually, in some kind of epic miracle she was born completely healthy. The doctors were fucking amazed. They said the had literally never seen a baby score that high on their health chart.

Currently she's the smartest of all three of my kids by a long shot, and has only ever had one health issue, which was a little excema that cleared up after a few weeks.

So, all things considered my family got a good deal. I'd have be some kind of moron to not go for this job, even if it does mean leaving the states.

>>14557290
>>14557290
>homoerotic fiction
hello!

>>14557406
Good... I can exhale now. Wishing all of you the best of luck, which you clearly deserve after having to go through that kind of nightmare.

>>14557430

lol

*takes a small bow*

>>14557430
Might be an advantage in Black Library interviews:
'We'd like to ask you what unique qualities you feel you and you alone can bring to this role.'
'Well... here and now I can give you over nine hundred synonyms- words, phrases, and poetic allusions- for the word "penis".'
'.....good God.'

>>14557508
>> 'Well... here and now I can give you over nine hundred synonyms- words, phrases, and poetic allusions- for the word "penis".'

ROFLOL

'kidney cracker' is my favorite lol

You don't even want to know some of the euphemisms for 'anus'

Of course it'd be funny as hell if whoever gets the job wrote in female space marines

>>14557358

Why yes, yes I can.

http://www.reapermini.com/ArtistsWanted

The idea is that you do one-off pieces for them until they like you, and then you might be offered a full-time position. Worst-case-scenario is that this looks mighty impressive on your GW application.

>>14557290

You should think about coming here with or without having to write grimderp. NHS would at least partially cover medical costs. If your from the almighty Anglosphere then UK Immigration won't give a shit.

>>14557192

Not the guy you're talking to, but I'm working on submitting something right now. There's also a short story section for those of us not crazy enough to go for the full novel.

>>14557542
>> You should think about coming here with or without having to write grimderp. NHS would at least partially cover medical costs. If your from the almighty Anglosphere then UK Immigration won't give a shit.

It's definitely worth thinking about.

Kinda worried about the anglosphere thing though, what does that mean exactly?

>>14557631
English speaking. Not a swarthy foreigner.

White and British Commonwealth preferred, I think.

>>14557631
Just means the English-speaking world... although it does have a sci-fi sound to it.
'Strap him into the Anglosphere!'
'Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo'

>>14557631

If you speak fluent English and you're white, you've got nothing at all to worry about. It's not as blatantly racist as Australian immigration, but we're getting there under the new government.

http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/policyandlaw/immigrationlaw/immigrationrules/

Is /tg/ a bad enough dude to write 1000 words of sample text generated mostly through tables and submit it to GW?

Let's start: someone roll 29d100 for Space Marine chapter generation. Also, are they the protagonists or antagonists?

>>14557687
The Abyssal Jaws were created earlier, and they are entirely awesome.

>>14557692
Abyssal jews?

>>14557692
Base a short story on them, submit it.

Not a bad place to start

>>14557526
>You don't even want to know some of the euphemisms for 'anus'
Dammit, son, you done went and got me curious.
Let's hear some.

Somebody copypaste 1d4chan's archive of Emperor's Nightmare writefaggotry, call it an anthology and submit that. If someone manages to get the Emperor's Nightmares canonized, they win. I don't even know what they win, but they win it. Forever.

I usually avoid posting in Black Library threads - for obvious reasons - but this one's quite commentable. Never hurts to share a little info.

>>14557090
Mat Ward has nothing to do with the Black Library, dude. He's Games Dev.

>>14557141
Actually, you might be surprised. The stigma of "tie-in" fiction is largely gone from the industry itself (at least behind the scenes, where the money is made and the deals are done), and Black Library is taken pretty seriously - especially due to its sales and bestsellers in the last 18 months. Don't make the mistake of attributing the way the business was run 10, or even 4-5 years ago, as the way things work now. That's the biggest mistake detractors of BL tend to make. Different eras, and all that.

>>14559535

I'm skeptical, but if it really is you, I'm a fan of your work. Is there a reason you post on bolter and chainsword in particular? (Kudos on that, by the way. The 40k community seems to really appreciate it. I know I do. Always nice to have the writer take time to answer questions...)

Have you ever thought about writing a Blood Ravens novel? Goodness knows they need a competent writer, and you'd definitely be the man for the job.

>>14559578

I appreciate the vote of confidence, but I'd rather not touch the Blood Ravens in their current state. They're pretty much distinctly THQ's, uh, "slice" of the IP, if you get me? While there's always that "everything is canon and nothing is canon" axiom (...trope? ...cliche?), they're a distinct corner of the IP that feels increasingly silly and ugly to me. I'm not deriding them, mind you. I get their appeal, it's just not up my alley, after all that's come before.

I post on the B&C more than, say WarSeer (or whatever) because there's a significantly killer signal-to-noise ratio, and way less anger. It's also a conversion idea-stealing goldmine, because I'm a fucking chimp when it comes to making my own conversions. I put a Space Marine bionic on a Chaos Marine and secretly herald myself a genius. So any real inspiration is always rad.

>>14559535

Since you're supposedly doing a Grey Knights book, are you going to go more in-depth about characters like Draigo e.g. shed some light on why he's got Mephiston-esque physical prowess instead of that which is usually the case with Grand Masters/Chapter Masters?

Of course if it's not set in late 41st, that issue would not come up (although Draigo does time travel in the Warp).

>>14559535

How is your ork shaman doing?

>(documents onifire

I hope captcha isn't doing Tzeentch stuff and predicting the fate of ADB's novel drafts... Hey, maybe it is the next Goto novel...

>>14559645
Thanks for the explanation. Bit sad that no one seems to like the Ravens, but I can't blame them with the way they've been handled.Oh well. Well, if anyone could redeem the half dozen or so bad novels...

What're your thoughts on the new Grey Knights? Will the changes in the fluff affect details of novels/handling of the Inquisition in any way?

>>14559657
I'm not touching any of the special characters. It's set in 438.M41, so a good few centuries before Mat Ward's 'dex. I didn't really find those characters all that appealing to write about, and in fairness, I doubt Games Dev ever expected (or cared) since they never asked. But I had ideas for my own squad, anyway.

>>14559660
I went back to my troll rogue, because I'm too lazy and short on time to learn a new class, really. I also volunteered to be an ore mule for Katie, because she wanted double crafting professions back in, like... Burning Crusade or something. But I barely play WoW now, because free time eludes me. It was great for condensing several hobbies into one (gaming, roleplaying, free-time writing, etc.), but it was poison to get anything else done. Also, my guild is worthless at PvP, which was my primary interest apart from roleplaying.

Please note: I am also worthless at PvP. Just an enthusiastic amateur. Born casual.

>>14559727
>so a good few centuries before Mat Ward's 'dex.

Thank the God-Emperor. Will you be working around the stupider parts of the new Codex fluff? It's easily Goto-tier in places...

>>14559727

Just for curiosities sake: Do the Atramentar(sp?) play a role in Blood Reaver? And are we going to see more Heresy era stuff in that novel?

>>14559677

I think the rules are great. I'm not a huge fan of some of the changes, I admit, but it's the nature of the game. At a push, I'd say I'm trying to play closer to the "purity through devotion" angle from before, rather than the "pure, no matter what corrupt stuff we do" angle of the new incarnation.

Perfection should be effort to maintain - at least in the narrative sense - or it's a worthless struggle. Hell, if it's not even a struggle at all, it's debatable that it's even something worth exploring in a narrative context. Not much of a story, when your main characters are so absolutely unthreatenable.

Without commenting too much (as I said, I reckon the rules are pretty great) my editor did ask:

"Possible place for a Dreadknight, in the climactic battle?"

My exact response was: "That really won't be happening, Nick."

Don't post any write faggotry on /tg/, it makes it unsubmitable if you post your work on an open forum.

rolled 2 = 2

>>14559783
With that statement, you may just have converted every fa/tg/uy who wasn't already a fan. I, for one, am definitely getting the novel now.

What're your thoughts on the Alpha Legion? How do you see the sneakiest marines- still working for the Imperium, or among the lost and the damned?

Starting to feel like a cunt for accidentally derailing the thread now. I'll keep this brief, and go make some more of this grotesque green tea in a bit.

>>14559763
There's much more of an expanded cast in Blood Reaver, and even First Claw get more attention and development (like Uzas and Variel, especially). The Atramentar actually don't show up much, largely because the Exalted relies more on his newfound Raptor Cult, the Bleeding Eyes, which is an intentional slight to the Terminators. Talos also finds a significant reason to start distrusting Malek, despite the fact they were chums in Soul Hunter.

There's definitely more Heresy-era stuff in there. Two flashbacks to fighting in the Imperial Palace, and one of Curze's personal chamber, when several of his chosen watch him slowly losing his mind.

>>14559833
No, no, we're grateful that you'd take the time to answer our questions! From the horse's mouth, as it were.

So the Night Lords are going to show the paranoid aspect of their characters? Cool.

>>14559833

Meh, there are so many more questions I have. Feel like asking you shittons of stuff about writing and your opinion on the setting. oh well...

>>14559825
The Alphas seem pretty lost to me.

>>14559833
Don't feel bad. Every time you post here we get a point in our competition of creator appearance one-upmanship with /co/.

>>14559862

That's the plan, though I want that to reach its apex in the third novel. I tend to see (read: hope) the them of Soul Hunter was one of exhaustion and degeneration, and having to remain brothers with kin that you absolutely loathed. Blood Reaver is more focused on the fact that no Chaos Astartes really operates for the same reasons as his brothers. Like, a lot of them can't stand Talos hearkening back to their age of glory and sinister honour, because for them that was always just a lie the deluded members of the Legion invented to cope with their corruption. Xarl, especially, considers Talos bizarrely deep in self-deception. Like most Night Lords, (...and in the Index Astartes article) Xarl was always a mass-murdering fuckhead glorying in his own power.

And for the record, you guys know the "MEANWHILE AT GW" pic that gets posted a lot, with the guy laying on the floor, covered in paintbrushes and stuff? That's Black Library's new(ish) marketing head honcho, Andy Smillie. One of the nicest guys on Earth, for really reals. Whoever gets the job mentioned in this thread would end up as his assistant.

>>14559783
>"Possible place for a Dreadknight, in the climactic battle?"

There's nothing a Dreadknight can do that an effing Dreadnought couldn't, aside from getting headshotted by a sniper.

Good call. I'd ask for an un-fucking of Stern (going from bitchslapping M'kachen to being M'kachen's bitch) but it's not really my place.

>>14559783
>"Possible place for a Dreadknight, in the climactic battle?"

>My exact response was: "That really won't be happening, Nick."

2 awesome 4 u? well im listening.

>>14559877

Hit me. Type fast. Katie wants to show me some nonsense in Sims, or something. She's selling puppies now, or whatever.

Such thrills.

>>14559949

Stern was a rank and file GK during the First Armageddon War, which is after that book in the timeline. His vendetta with M'kachan did not start untill 700's of M41 iirc.

I'd be interested in seeing Doombreed though.

>>14559964
You can't spell your own name, dude. It's one T.

>>14559948

Don't annoy the sleeping Scot, for he may become your boss soonish?
The distinction between Night Lords like Talos and Xarl seems to be mirrored in Zso Sahaal and Krieg Acerbus. The Legion seems to be as deeply split as Night Haunters psyche. Makes me wonder who was the real primarch, Konrad or the Haunter. And if so: which one gave in to Chaos?

>>14559966
Perfect. I'm opening a Korean restaurant.

What're your thoughts on the Alpha Legion?

Also, thanks again for the answers!

>>14559966
What's your favourite piece of fluff? Who's your favourite (non-GW, I think asking a work specific question would be too awkward) author?

>>14559986
>You can't spell your own name, dude. It's one T.
AND THEY LET HIM WRITE CODICES

>>14560003

*ba-dum-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh*

>>14559986
have u failed to se my poster?
dam jus go away and gain knowledge.
<- my poster

>>14559966
Not sure if you're still here, but pic is definitely related.

Just wanted to say I'm a fan. Not a lot more then that, really. I also liked your work for White Wolf.

Oh wait, actually, one thing - with the BL open submissions thing coming soon, how many people do they normally get applying, and are they looking for a particular type of story?

>>14560001

Sorry, I missed that one before. I'm arguing with my brother on MSN at the same time as this.

I don't mean for this to come across as a cop-out answer, but I know it will sound like one. Where the Alpha Legion is concerned, I'm fairly certain there's no answer, there never will be one, and I kinda like that. They're purposefully designed to be what they are: a weird enigma that answers "Yes" to every question they get asked about allegiance. They embody that "It's all true and none of it's true" ethos behind some of 40K's juiciest bits.

So to that end, I really don't try to frame it in terms of what they really are - and I hope no codex ever tries. I prefer to think of them as filling a story niche, acting towards objectives that I personally will never really know. But because I like to write pointless fluff for my armies, my inability to really get inside their heads (despite digging them a lot) means I'm not keen to make a TT army out of them.

That said, I was saying to Dan the last time we hooked up for a breakfast meeting that I sincerely doubt the Alphas believed the Cabal for a minute. If anything, Alpharius was just using that as one of many excuses to do whatever else he wanted to do. It's a fun angle, though. I almost hope it's true.

tl'dr -- I don't know, and I actually like not knowing. I think they're one of the mysteries in 40K that actually come across as intelligently crafted, rather than saying "Here is a mystery" and leaving it at that.

>>14560002
Robin Hobb. Love her work to bits. Beautifully written characters.

In during ADB keeps me from sleeping (again! I blame Soul Hunter!). Which is kinda awesome I guess.

>>14560081
How's Dan's health by the way?

Do you guys ever talk about his comics work? I have limited exposure to 2000AD across the pond, but I loved him (and Lanning) on Guardians of the Galaxy.

>>14560081
Okay, that makes sense. The Alpha Legion do seem to work best as ambiguous villains, instead of the generic BURN MAIM KILL types we got in Voldorius...

Out of curiosity, will we get more information on the deity the Raptors worship? They're a breed apart from CSM with jump packs, right?

>>14559948

Interesting stuff.

Now that that's said...how DARE you give an Avenger class Grand Cruiser prow lances, when even the meanest child knows that grand cruisers of Vengeance hull type do not have any prow weaponry besides possible turrets?!

...just kidding. Minor mistake is minor, appreciate that you involve BFG stuff in your books, it's a woefully neglected aspect of the franchise.

>>14560029
You need new poster guys, Mat.

>>14560079
I honestly don't know how many, but it's freaking loads. Sorry for being so vague; I can only go on what they've mentioned in the past. Don't worry about what they're looking for, either. A lot of people think bolter porn is the key to getting published (and not to put too fine a point on it, but at one point, that was perhaps truer than it is now), so run with whatever you feel comfortable with. If you get 40K's theme*, that'll be what counts more than anything else.

They're looking for decent writing (in after HAHAHAHAHA) rather than anything specific. Unless they're distinctly asking for something, in which case, just bring something new to whatever old trope they're asking for.


* -- I know, I know, everyone sees it in a different way. But you know what I mean.

I feel kind of shitty asking so many fluff questions rather than practical or original ones but I do have one question I would like to ask someone on a GW creative team: what do you think of Rogal Dorn's death?

>>14560131

This question is a bit more abstract, but how did you get involved in writing for BL in the first place? If you've answered this before, a simple put-down and appropriate redirection will be more than enough!

Aaron... I often see you talking smack about your fellow writers books

Battle for the Abysmal... That Night Lord Zso you went mental over

Don't y'all get some attitude for it?

>>14560129
Dude, they've been building that motherfucker up for centuries. It's got prow lances, TIE Fighter bays, an oak finish, and everything.

No, seriously, it's an ancient Great Crusade classless void-bastard (not a plainer Space Marine STC number), and has been added to significantly since then.

>>14560111
He's fine. He's on the perfect meds for it, so he's doing really good. He reckons he'll probably have his driving license back again for when they come over for my wedding in three (three!? Aaawwwwrrrrggh....) months.

The only thing that sucks is that he can't drink ever again. Which is sort of weak, since he sits there sober while I rave about whatever, and drink Guinness.

>>14560131
>You need new poster guys, Mat.

Yeah well you need a new face. Hurts doesn't it? Besides I bet you don't even HAVE a poster.

>>14559825

Alpha Legion is definitely Chaos at this stage.
>Teaming up with xenos to destroy humanity
Bad
>Bale
Bad
>Carron
Bad
>Voldorius
Super bad
>Irrational dislike of Ultramarines
That isn't even POSSIBLE for any Imperial or sane xenos faction.

>>14560184

Oh, I wasn't referring to the "Covenant of Blood", but to the "Sword of the God-Emperor".

>>14560129

* I'm a dumbass. I thought you meant the Covenant. I'll wake up, I swear.

C'mon If you're really Aaron drop us a /wave on twitter, dropping this much information on a forum has gotta be a no no.

A quick tweet would take seconds

>>14560179
Quite frankly, he usually has a point, and it's refreshing to hear some honest criticism. Abyss was pretty Abyssal, and I can see his reasoning for Zso (even if I disagree)

>>14560202

Covenant is fine, I think everyone is cool with traitor legions not using Roboute-approved post-heresy Strike Cruisers.

>>14560179
>Battle for the Abysmal...
dont know what that is.

>That Night Lord Zso you went mental over
I think it's only fair to highlight the fractures within the Legion as fractures within their Primarch.

Spurrier's book (which is still my favorite BL book, period, sorry ADB) still highlights Sahaal as a preening, arrogant asshole. Sure, he was insanely competent but he also thought extremely highly of himself which was mirrored in his behavior.

In a Legion full of similar fractious assholes, I think it's only fair that such behavior is not universally respected.

I kind of view the Night Lords (and I do play them on the TT) as a group of isolationists who, being recruited from criminal backgrounds, don't particularly trust each other, although there is some semblance of brotherhood. They just trust everyone else LESS.

>>14560225

criticism of stuff you don't like is fine, open criticism of your colleagues work in a disrespectful way often leads to... tension?

I really hope BL accepts my book proposition for 'Omega Fuck Fist: Blade Whirlwind of Flesh Justice - the Revenge of Skull-lord Decapitoks'. It's essentially a grounded metaphor for one young peasant family's struggle during the October Revolution.

>>14560247
I don't suppose you proxy them as Blood Angels? (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

>>14560263
This

So put a Dreadknight in your Guillimandamned book already.

>>14560233

...although such wanton and callous disregard for the Codex: Astartes and their spiritual liege is no doubt the reason behind their failure to topple the Imperium.

>>14560204
Dude, I hate Twitter. I never update it. I'm not dropping anything I don't say on my blog, or on any other forum.

>>14560179
Good question. I think the key is that I don't reeeeeally talk smack. Like, the Sahaal stuff I see reposted here weekly is only one of about 15 fucking essay-length forum posts I've done on the subject - and it's the least-interesting, as well as the most negative - and people take "I wasn't a fan of that character, but fucking love Si Spurrier's writing" as "LOL ADB goes crazy over this shit LOL". Like it's a personal grudge, if you get me? And it's not. I mean, that'd be terminally lame.

While I'm easily the least-professional author I know (which... I'm not actually proud of), I try to always operate from a position of honesty. I always hated the bland buy-my-book-grin-grin neutrality of many author interviews. It makes my skin crawl. Why do interviews if it's with a product, not a person, y'know? It's like DVD extras. Pointless crap.

That said, I have stopped saying shitcunt and fuckbadgery on my blog. I'm a good boy now.

>>14560153
I asked Mike Lee (who I'd worked with on RPGs) for his editor's email address. But things were done differently, then. It was a mighty 3 years ago, and I remember when this was all fields, etc. They asked me to pitch an Imperial Guard novel as a test, after they liked some samples I sent in, etc.

I think I banged on about it in an interview on Youtube, somewhere. I don't claim it'll be interesting to watch, mind you. Buyer beware.

Aaron, when is the Black legion going to get some real love? These guys are the counterpart to the Ultras but nothing (outside the Horus Heresy)?

Why does Abaddon always need to be displayed as a huge choleric cunt without the tactical acumen you might expect of Horus Lupercals terminator captain?

>>14560278
Hah. I wish.

I pay 20 pts per model for no ATSNKF, no free sergeant, combat tactics no way to get FNP bubbles, no scoring jump pack troops.

Oh wait I pay 30 pts to get +1 attack! And I can take plasma guns. Yaaaaay.

>>14560330

I think a recap of his "You have failed me for the last time..." rule is appropriate here.

>>14560278
Damn right he should use BA rules, Guilliman knows they're superior to that shit stain of a Codex known as Codex: Chaos Space Marines.

>>14560295
This guy gets it. If only Chaos Marines could see their own flaws and accept the Codex, they might actually prove a threat to the Imperium - not the Ultramarines of course but the Ultramarines can't be everywhere at once.


Yet.

I'm sitting here with my pitcher of salt trying to decide how much of this is real and how much is bullshit.

But one small question, ADB do you have plans for another horus heresy book?

>>14560308
If you don't mind me asking, what's up with the whole "beat on the Eldar" thing that's currently going around?

I mean they seem to be getting inexplicably wrecked left and right, which is undermining the whole "highly advanced but in smaller numbers" thing I fell for originally.

Looking forward to the Grey Knights stories, since they sound like a they have more in common with the previous codex that has some major respect.

>>14560201
The thing is - and again, this'll sound like some lame defence - but this ties into something I am ball-achingly passionate about in regards to the IP. I talk to IP guys a lot (especially when prepping that monthly column thingy I did about canon in 40K), since it's something I'm really keen to "get right" insofar as it's possible to do.

The short, short, short version is that the galaxy is broken up into a bajillion sections. Battlefleet Gothic's Sponge-class Uberlords are just like that in that one battlefleet. The others, across a squillion other little sectors, will all come with their own minor modifications, if they even use those classes of ships at all. So it was between a rock and a hard place, but you're right, I should've just stuck with the "core" stuff already presented, because it's one of those cases where deviation just comes across as lazy and shitty research.

The Dark heresy RPG sourcebooks are the perfect example (in fact, the very example the IP guys used when explaining this to me) of how segmented the galaxy really is. Stuff in those doesn't apply to the whole Imperium, but because real detailed lore is so hard to come by with 40K, it's often latched onto with serious ferocity.

I played Eldar in BFG, by the way. I wasn't victorious.

Ever.

>>14560310
I have plans to do a novel series about Abaddon's rise to become Warmaster of Chaos, in a couple of years. But it's just an idea in my head right now; too busy to focus on it for a while.

>Salary: £14,000 - £18,000
I hope this person doesn't mind not eating.

>>14560330

The warp overtook him? Even the ADB doesn't like him :3

The Warmaster is chatting to that... Night Lord dude... who then responds with "Your crusades failed, you suck" Oh did I fail? Did I really? "Yeah you fucking failed"

Only Abaddon could sacrifice thousands of irreplaceable Space Marine renegades so that he could obtain... dun dun dun! A close combat weapon! A daemonic CC weapon but a fucking CC weapon none the less.

It's this kind of brash nonsense which has people openly insulting the Warmaster of all Chaos to his face.

>>14560368
>I played Eldar in BFG, by the way. I wasn't victorious.

Corsair or Craftworld? (Or DE too, I suppose).

Because Corsair was autowin vs Orks for years on end until Ork Kaptins realized just HOW much ordnance they could put out with Terror Ships and rerolls.

>>14560368
Nothing.

But.

Nightshades.

You could lose, yes. But you would still be successful as your opponent inflicts brain damage on himself smashing his head against the table.

>>14560353
Yeah, but my issue (as always) is deadlines. I take about 7-10 months to write a novel. That's over twice as much as some people, whether they're published by Black Library or not. Novelists tend to write fast, which is why most of them have a book a year. Me, not so much. I second guess my work a lot, rewrite it while telling my editors it's just not finished, and keep it unsubmitted while I send it to my reading circle.

My next HH novel is ages away, though I did one of the limited edition HH novellas coming out soon, which'll be published... uh... at some point. The summer? I think?


>>14560359
I don't know. I like the Eldar. They're certainly going to beat the crap out of the Night Lords in the next NL novel.

>Salary: £14,000 - £18,000
Fucking hell, did the value of the pound triple overnight or are they seriously expecting someone to do this for less than the starting salary of a teacher?

>>14560310
>These guys are the counterpart to the Ultras

Are you fucking kidding me?
NOONE, ESPECIALLY THE BLACK LEGION, CAN EVER COMPARE IN ANY WAY TO THE ULTRAMARINES.

>>14560330
>Why does Abaddon always need to be displayed as a huge choleric cunt without the tactical acumen you might expect of Horus Lupercals terminator captain?

I'm glad that you asked, really it's because he's a huge choleric cunt with the tactical acumen you might expect of Horus Lupercals terminator captain.

I mean seriously Horus sucks ass. So do the Black Legion.

rolled 1 = 1

>>14560374
Even McNeil got in on the act, with "Meltaface" Grendel complaining to Honsou about Abby and his failures.

Thing is, very few people say that to his face. He's 40k's Darth Vader: out of universe, you can joke about BIG NOOO, but he's bad news for the characters.

>>14560423

I believe Erebus himself spoke of talk of replacing Abaddon as Warmaster of Chaos in the Word Bearers trilogy. Honestly, is there no one who talks shit about Abaddon?

>>14560368

Yeah, the thing about the Avenger, Vengeance, Retaliator, Executor and Exorcist grand cruisers is that they are basically the same ship, with different weapon configurations, Avenger being broadside weapon batteries only. The lack of prow weaponry is something all of them share, and this carries to FFG's representation too, thats really why it popped up.

For example, if it had been a Repulsive (they are after all used as reserve ships by the Imperium still), a forward lance would have been a non-issue because that hull does get prow weaponry. Or you could make up a variant of the Avenger/Vengeance hull with prow weapons and rename it, but that would probably cause someone to cry about you making up ships on the spot. But really, it's not a big deal and I can understand what you tried to do.

By the way, losing with Eldar? Tsk tsk. Take a Void Stalker and use all remaining points for Nightshades. That makes all but Necron players cry nerf and MoveMoveShoot houserules.

>>14560420
I would honestly love to believe that you are not really Mat Ward, but I not so sure anymore...

>>14560452
Abaddon's mother still thinks he's cool

>>14560452
Of course they did. Chaos's minions tend to be a bunch of backstabbers, and it'd be surprising if there weren't a baker's dozen plots to unseat Abaddon at any one time, especially among his inner council...

For him to tell an underling as much, however, is rather suggestive.

>>14560467
>Mat Ward

By Guilliman I wish I could slap your shit over the Internet. Have you not seen my poster?
It's MATT. MATT. MATTMATTMATTMATTMATTROUBUTEMATTMATTMATTMATT

>assisting with online initiatives.

VIRAL

Hey Aaron, you've alluded to disliking a few bit of fluff on your blog. Any chance of you telling us what your least favourite pieces are?

Also, you said you met Matt Farrer recently on your blog. Did he mention if he's doing anything for BL currently?

>>14560407
a thousand sons. that book made me rage at everyone and everything for 4 months after i read it. is there more about them coming out? besides blood ravens are loyalist thousand sons, thq etc. and are there going to be any admech related BL books coming out?

>>14560407
>I like the Eldar. They're certainly going to beat the crap out of the Night Lords in the next NL novel.

If they had only accepted the Codex Astartes. Oh well traitor slime will be traitor slime.

>>14560546
>Any chance of you telling us what your least favourite pieces are?

Everything not done by Matt Ward.

You don't need eyes where this thread is going...

>>14560628
you sir are now my 3rd favorite writer, after TERRY MOTHERFUCKING PRACHETT, and Jim Butcher.

also is Matt Ward aware of the hate that we neckbeards hold for him?

>>14560628
Cunning.

there's bigger, more insidious pieces of shit than Ward in black library

I'm looking at you Abnett

>>14560689

rofl
kile yourselef

Okay, I bounced back, but now I'm bailing again. Thanks for the talk, gang.

>>14560546
Argh, I don't actually know if Matt Farrer's doing anything for BL right now. That speaks ill of me, as a shitty colleague. When I met him at late night pre-Games Day drinking, he gave me a copy of Paul Haines' 'Slice of Life', which I read on the flight home. Was bloody awesome.

Regarding fluff I don't like, apologies for pussying out, but you can probably see why I tend not to be too explicit about that.

>>14560556
No idea about the Blood Ravens, sorry, Anon. I suspect they'd be getting stuff all the while. as long as DoW keeps its releases going, though. They're considered a "gateway drug" into 40K, so so I doubt they'd be ignored for good, by any of GW's divisions.

Can't really go into Adeptus Mechanicus detail, but suffice to say that yeah, there've been whispers that someone wants to write about them in a pretty significant way. I'm sure something will show up at some point.

>>14560628
Stop that, sweety.

>>14560665
>you sir are now my 3rd favorite writer, after TERRY MOTHERFUCKING PRACHETT, and Jim Butcher.

I have no idea who either of those people are but thank you.

>also is Matt Ward aware of the hate that we neckbeards hold for him?

Matt Ward is as far beyond me as I am beyond you, I have no way of guessing the inner-workings of his glorious mind.

rolled 99 = 99

Goddamnit, there goes the thread. Thanks again for taking the time to answer our questions, ADB. You write great fiction.

>>14560665

I don't get the hate reserved Mat Ward. I've read the fluff he did on Battle of Pelennor fields, I really liked it. And codex Space Marines is in highly competative circles accepted as one of the best written rules for a faction in the history of warhammer 40 000.

That being said, I am also converting up Talos to incorporate in my Black Legion army (even though he hates the black legion). ANYWAY ADB HAVE ME BABIES YOU ARE THE BEST BL WRITER EVER WIEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>14560628
>>14560715

Why Mr Dembski-Bowden I'm touched.

>>14560714
>Regarding fluff I don't like, apologies for pussying out, but you can probably see why I tend not to be too explicit about that.

Dan already has dibs on starting the first BL Royal Rumble?

>>14560714
Well shit.
I was hoping to troll a little longer and I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for you and your meddling hat.

>>14560738
>I'm touched.
In the head, perhaps.

>>14560715
Terry Prachett did the discworld series, the greatest insane fantasy series ever. he has some kind of Alzheimer`s now.

and Jim Butcher writes the Dresden files. featuring the badass Harry Dresden

Why hasn't the black library started a line or romance novels yet?

>>14560806

Jim Butcher also wrote the Codex Alera series, which is a great take on swords 'n' sorcery.

>>14559727

>I'm not touching any of the special characters. It's set in 438.M41, so a good few centuries before Mat Ward's 'dex.

Bueno, this means that folks applying for the BL job can write a book about Draigo without worrying about existing projects!

Not sure if Aaron is still around... but any chance of a novel concerning the Orks that doesn't portray them as 'Punching-Bag Villains'? So far, Death-Skwadrun has been the only thing to ever come out of BL worth reading (possible exception to Blood And Thunder).

>>14560797
You just mad that the Ultramarines, Blood Angels, Grey Knights and soon Necrons be stylin' on you.

>>14560815
Believe me I've tried but for some reason no one seems to interested in the saucy exploits of Marneus Calgar and all the women in the galaxy, I suspect that it's something to do with them feeling inadequate in comparison,

>>14560837
Nah, generally the Orks are just there for comic relief. In fact my next novel is going to feature Orks in a pie-eating contest.

Besides you does GW know about /tg/? If they do, what do they think of the vast amounts of crude pornography we produce?

>>14560862
I'm pretty sure each and every redshirt and member of a design team have a hard drive full of 40k porn each.
It might just be company policy to fap to at least one drawing by GreenMarine

>>14560860
So I take that as a 'No', then. Fair enough. I'll just stick to Gaunt's Ghost novels and continue to recommend to fellow Ork players that nothing worth reading ever comes from Black Library.

>>14560862
Oh, I know all about /tg/ and know that most of you are a bunch pussy whiners and that none of you are man enough to face me head on.

And so I keep pushing the Sister's codex back until one of you snaps and assaulted me, then I'll kill you and the rest of you will know not to fuck with me.

Your porn is also in a shitty anime style and your drawfags have no talent. Also there is not enough Ultramarines.

Is this job for students? Because you would get more stacking shelves in Tesco's than this, if you are working full time

>>14560862
Well, FFG does. Look up Grendel becoming canon and several other similar occurrences.
GW seems to know about tg, too. I once witnessed a thread where a guy complained about something while having his e-mail address in the appropriate field and got a mail from GW with an explanation about half an hour later.

>>14560924
You now know the financial value of a liberal arts degree.

>>14560912
Yeah it kinda sucks, editorial mandate and all that eh?

Also who else would have a pie-eating contest in the middle of a battle?

>>14560916
I would fist-fight you, fake Matt Ward who I am projecting my hatred of real Matt Ward onto.

>>14560948
If you kill yourself your art will be worth it.

>>14560916
Come on Matt, You should've been to bed hours ago, it's like midnight in England right now.

You can yell empty threats into the internet tomorrow.

>>14560924

Marketing Assistant working for £7 an hour lawl

>>14560954
Outside GW HQ. 18th of April. Noon.

>>14560949
Doesn't "kinda" suck at all. It's exceptionally demoralizing and only reinforces my decision to quit 40k.

>>14560949
Personally, I think they'd make great graphic novel fodder.

Which BL won't touch, as an idea.

It's a pity, as Warren Ellis has proven with Freakangels that you can do an online comic, give it all away, and still outsell The Walking Dead in graphic novel sales..

>>14560990
I'll be at WarhammerWorld August 14th. I'd love to sit down at Bugman's and have a chat with you. Show up, by all means.

>>14560977
>it's like midnight in England right now

Yeah that it is. Too bad that I'm chilling in the Caribean with some fine ladies, what with all that money I just made.

>>14560990
Outside GW HQ is a silly place to do that.

In the event that you are not Ward, and he is at GW and coming out of lunch, then you have a confusing encounter between a guy ready to fight and a guy who wants to go grab a bite.

Of course, you know that, being not-Matt-Ward.

>>14561015
>>14561027
By all means bring your friends even, it'll just sound more sympathetic for me when you all attack. It will also sound more heroic when I utterly devastate you all and leave you little more than chaos spawn look a likes.

>>14561027
As the person who posted >>14561072, by no means would I be violent. I'm a pacifist. I have doubts that you're little more than an internet troll. But if on the off-chance you are, I'd love to sit down and have a pint and chat with you.

>>14560998
I agree man it's tough, heck I didn't even want to put comedy Orks in.

But anyway thank you for all the questions /tg/ but it's getting pretty late over here and Matt Ward seems to own this thread now.

So I gotta bail. It's been good.

I've read half of one book in the Black Library and the first chapter of another. I'm not sure they'd want me. If you've read like a dozen books then I don't see what you'd have to lose by at least applying. I have faith that /tg/ has the quality people they're looking for, too.

>>14561058
That's crazy talk.

>>14561097
I'm sorry I was getting caught up in the thrill of Internet boasting .

It would be good to see you but unfortunately my work schedule is kind of fluid and alcohol does awful things to me. But perhaps we'll run across each other.

>>14561174
Somehow I doubt GW devs work on the weekends.

>>14561209

Fool Ward does as he pleases.

>>14561120
Boooooooooowwwwwwdeeeen I'll follow you to the ends of the earth until you include the dreadknight.

>>14561298

Will there be any info on other Night Lords Warbands in the upcoming novels? Specifically about how much the amount of degeneration has seeped into the legion at large.

>>14560806
Dude, that last one was a fake Aaron. There is literally no chance at all that the real one doesn't know who Terry Pratchett is.
>>14560924
They can easily get away with that salary. For one thing, it's an entry into publishing, and EVERYBODY who doesn't actually have specific skills wants to get into publishing. For another thing, it's more fun that stacking shelves and potentially gives you a future. For a third thing, they can count on thousands of fanboys applying... although hiring a mega-fanboy over someone who can actually write good copy would be a terrible mistake.

>>14559783
Hey checkit, it's Aaron Dembski-Bowden making the same argument I do every time the Grey Knights-Sisters shitstorm rolls around (not that you'd know, because I'm an anon, but in my head it counts). Admittedly, his specific views on sister-murdering remain unclear...

>>14560714

For the record, I didn't post anything after that one with the datestamp. I was making grotesque green tea, and watching Katie play Sims. Rock and roll lifestyle, yo.

"Yeah it kinda sucks, editorial mandate and all that eh?"

I award you half marks for tone, but I'd have punctuated that totally differently.

I'm also not that mean about orks.

Thanks again, guys. See you tomorrow, back in the guise of Anon.

>>14561716
If green tea is grotesque you're Doing It Wrong. Maybe cut back on the amount of leaves in each cup?

See you anon!
(I didn't just pun, I punned Shakespeare-style, you guys!)

bump

>>This entire thread after Dembski-Bowden started posting

Not a bad job role for someone just coming out of college

Now we just need Scott Lynch to come back.

>>14566299
Who?

>>14566299

WHAT? awesome!