A Special Request For Our Listeners
Posted by admin on Tuesday Jan 11, 2011 Under Black Library
The Eternal Warriors have been given the privilege of doing an interview with the Black Library author, Aaron Dembski-Bowden. Now we need help from you, the listener.
Are there any questions you’ve been dying to ask AD-B? Perhaps you want to know what his writing process is like? How he came to write about the Night Lords? How he brought Chaplain Grimaldus to life? Or what goes into writing a Horus Heresy novel? Even perhaps why he hates Star Trek so much?
Besides writing The First Heretic and Helsreach, he has written several other 40K-centric novels as well as a host of other books for the sci-fi/fantasy genre. The deadline for submissions is 21 January. In the comment section below or via email, please post your question or questions for AD-B and we’ll see what his answers are.
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January 11th, 2011 at 11:31 am
How did you get involved with Black Library? Were you an avid reader of their novels before working with them? How much writing experience did you have prior to your Black Library novels?
January 11th, 2011 at 12:25 pm
As a fellow writer (albeit amateur at best) I have issues sometimes getting around writer’s block, or coming up with further plot details. How do you overcome this?
What is your favorite army or faction, fluffwise? Gamewise?
January 11th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Considering how well Aaron depicted Marines (and their chaotic, pre-heresy counter-parts), would he consider writing a Codex in the future, should GW offer the opportunity? How would he feel about it, and what directions would he take?
Besides IG and Marines, what other 40k faction is he interested in writing about? Perhaps an Imperial organization which isn’t usually covered (for example, Enforcer was about Arbites, which aren’t a common main subject for 40k novels).
If he hates Star Trek so much, does he like Babylon 5?
January 11th, 2011 at 5:53 pm
1. Be honest you, like me, liked Seven of Nine for her brain, didn’t you?
2. If you were captain of a starship in an undetermined IP, but for sake of argument let’s call the starship the Enterprise. Would you send a red shirt to his or her death?
3. How many trunk novels do you have? How many did you write before your first sale?
4. What writing software do you use? Word, Scriveneer, Dramatica, napkins, etc?
5. Do you need beta readers? *hint, hint* How would one apply to become one, or an editor (since the BL website doesn’t explain that very well).
Cheerios!
-Pav
January 12th, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Hi What is your motivation and do you have any ritals before you start writing. When you write do you have a routine like Abnett writes at night and very early morning. Do you get told what chapter to write about or do you choose.
Thanks DB
January 13th, 2011 at 9:22 am
You said in an earlier interview that after writing Cadian Blood you had no intent to write any more books on the Death Guard because A) They were gross and B) They were the territory of other authors such as James Swallow who wrote the Heresy book Fight of the Eisenstein.
I can’t deny the ick factor, however James Swallow wrote about the pre heresy Death Guard, particularly of the adventures of the loyal Garro. Do you know if he will be writing the actual fall of the Death Guard to Nurgle?
And as Cadian Blood was a post heresy plague marine novel do you really feel that it falls into the same catagory as James work or do you feel that if pressed you might be convinced to write a Cadian Blood sequal?
January 14th, 2011 at 10:38 pm
What did you think of the Ultramarines movie? What would you have done differently with it if you had the chance?
What kind of music do you listen to (if any) when you write?
Have your parents read your novels, and what did they say to you after if they did? Do they “get” the whole 40K thing?
January 16th, 2011 at 12:23 am
So are you Polish or something? I would have asked you in person last year at Adepticon but I was afraid I’d get my ass kicked… lol. I ask because there’s a town right by where my parents are from in Poland named Debowiec (pronounced dem bo veetz) that’s pretty close to Dembski. Also the ski might have something to do with it….
Do you also think Gav Thorpe’s Chaos Space Marines Codex is a stinking pile of shit? Everyone else does, I don’t.
Any plans on writing any Xeno-centric books for 40K?
January 16th, 2011 at 12:27 am
One more, Since you did one hell of a job with Helsreach, any plans on doing any more books about the Templars? If not how about the Imperial Fists during the Horus Heresy? They haven’t had too much literature dedicated to them in the Horus Heresy series with the exception of “Flight of the Eisenstein”.
I’m also dying to see something written about how Dorn and Guilleman almost went to blows after the Emperor went down…