Michael @ Track of Words

Well I never. Check out the Black Library logo on the promo image for the upcoming Warhammer preview - that’s a very welcome inclusion! I wonder what’s going to be announced…

This year’s birthday book haul - although I did, admittedly, buy several of these for myself. They still count!

Likewise! And thanks so much - I hope she enjoys it :)

I'll do my best :) She's actually not our cat, she just spends most of every day in our garden or in our house! We, of course, are very happy about this :)

Loving it! :)

AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Grace Chan Talks Every Version of You Hello and welcome to Track of Words for today’s author interview with the fantastic Grace Chan, in which we’re going to be talking about her debut novel Every Version of You – out now from Ve…

Thanks so much to Grace for chatting to me, and to Frances at Verve for arranging the interview!

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Today's interview is with @gracechanwrites.bsky.social discussing her fantastic debut EVERY VERSION OF YOU, which is out now from Verve Books! Near-future Australian SF exploring digital identity and authenticity (and loads more), it's a fab book - and I loved chatting to Grace about it!

Really enjoyed last night’s book talk with @essiefox.bsky.social and @annamazz.bsky.social at Waterstones Windsor - and obviously I came away with both authors’ books :) Community Cat is interested, but she’s not that big of a reader. That’s ok though - I can’t wait to jump into both of them!

Thanks so much to the kind folks at @dawbooks.bsky.social for sending me this beautiful copy of WEARING THE LION by @wiswell.bsky.social! It arrived this morning just as I finished my previous book; perfect timing :) Been looking forward to this, so jumping straight in!

I mean...look at that cover art! So cool. I loved contributing to issue 1, and there *might* be a little something from me in an upcoming issue too :)

Secret Passages #2: An Old School RPG and Oldhammer Magazine Packed with interviews and illustrations, this is the second of a new quarterly zine exploring the RPGs and wargames that raised us.

Issue 2 of SECRET PASSAGES is fully funded on Kickstarter - hurrah! If you want to get in on the second issue of this great new zine - all about old-school tabletop games & RPGs - you've got time, as there's still 15 days to go. Check it out!

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Hello brave new world! Starting off on here with a bang by announcing that my debut novel Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock is shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award for 2025! As I have about four followers so far this feels a bit like bragging to an empty room but I’m very happy to be here!

Congratulations! Very well deserved :)

RT for the later crowd

AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Adam Oyebanji Talks Esperance Hello and welcome to this Track of Words author interview – please join me in welcoming the fantastic Adam Oyebanji who’s here to chat about his brand new novel Esperance, which is out now fr…

ESPERANCE by Adam Oyebanji is out now from @arcadiabooks.bsky.social, and it's brilliant! In today's author interview was delighted to chat to Adam about this intriguing SF mystery, its characters, the challenges of blending genres, and loads more!

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I’ve been absent on socials for a while, just haven’t had the headspace for it. I’ve got a cool author interview to post tomorrow though, discussing a fantastic new SF mystery, so do come back to read that!

In the meantime I’ll leave you with a small mountain of recent or (mostly) upcoming reads.

To Judge a Book By Its Cover – Thomas Parrott Guest Post Hello and welcome to this Track of Words guest post where today I’m letting author Thomas Parrott loose on the site to look ahead to 2022 and talk about some of the debut fantasy, horror and sci-fi…

Been a while since I revisited that article! Some fantastic books on there - Braking Day in particular was an absolute banger!

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Easily the book I'm most looking forward to this year - CANNOT WAIT to read this!

Inferno! Volume 5 – Black Library Anthology After the name was resurrected by Black Library in 2018 for an ongoing series of short story anthologies (as opposed to the original bi-monthly magazines), Inferno! has now reached Volume 5 –…

And for #BlackLibrary fans, a whopping 5 years ago today I posted my review of INFERNO! VOLUME 5. Frankly, I'd forgotten how good this anthology was - some cracking stories in there!

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AUTHOR INTERVIEW: John Wiswell Talks Someone You Can Build A Nest In Hello and welcome to this Track of Words author interview where today I’m delighted to welcome the excellent John Wiswell, to talk about his fascinating new novel Someone You Can Build A Nest In &#…

A year ago today I posted this interview with author @wiswell.bsky.social, chatting about his intriguing fantasy novel SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN! I've got to say, as a character Shesheshen has really stuck with me, so it was fun to go back and reread this.

www.trackofwords.com/2024/04/18/a...

In one of my longer interviews (because I do love going on about Greywater Fastness and the Loose Cannons!), I talk to Track of Words about my newest Gotrek novel, Verminslayer!

#Warhammer #AgeofSigmar

RT for the later crowd, in case you missed it this morning - check out my latest Rapid Fire author interview, with David Guymer chatting about VERMINSLAYER!

RAPID FIRE: David Guymer Talks Verminslayer Hello and welcome to this Rapid Fire author interview, where today I’m joined by Black Library author and Track of Words regular David Guymer to talk about his latest Age of Sigmar novel – Ve…

Here's the interview:

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I had a blast chatting to @warlordguymer.bsky.social about VERMINSLAYER, the latest #AgeOfSigmar Gotrek Gurnisson novel from #BlackLibrary! We covered all the important questions: what it's like returning to writing Gotrek, who's the new companion, and why skaven make the best antagonists!

Right?! Takes me right back…

Think you might still have them? Fingers crossed!

You’ve got so many of them! Amazing :)

So good! Hope you still have them :)

At least they might not be completely lost then!

Had a brilliant time at #Salute52 today - one of the best Salutes I’ve been to. Went into the day thinking I probably wouldn’t buy anything…but then I hit the Rogue Hobbies stand and couldn’t resist the temptation