Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Afternoon folks,

I'm just back from Baltimore Games Day, which was a really good event, even though gremlins in the warp conspired to lose a pallet containing Courage and Honour and The Killing Ground as well as Nathan's Battle for Skull Pass. Oh well, regardless of that, it was yet another event of lovely, enthusiastic fans and lots of signing. So, thanks to everyone for coming along and saying hi and making Nathan and I feel very welcome. We enjoyed the seminar a lot, as it was a good mix of questions and discussions, and didn't get entirely hijacked by Horus Heresy stuff, so good work everyone! Also, thanks to the guy who singled me out for a question with the words, 'This question's for the guy in grey...' That made me laugh. You know when you've arrived, when you're known as the guy in grey. Or perhaps it's like a Johnny Cash thing...like the Man in Black, just not as dark. So, all in all, a great show, and here's some pics to show you what you missed if you weren't there.



The Red Orktober, which was awesomely well built and the photo doesn't really do it justice.


The Squig cake the guys at Mythic had made. It was cut up later in the day, and though I begged them to let me to 'cut' it with an axe, they said no...


The 404th Remnant Legion, who probably spent more time posing for pictures than seeing what was on show at Games Day.


Nathan and I after dinner at the Rusty Scupper and posing in one of Baltimore's picturesque fallout shelters. Anyone who finds Nathan's missing leg will be suitably rewarded...

In other signing news
I'll be in Manchester this weekend, May 16th. I'll be signing copies of Courage and Honour (or anything else of mine for that matter) on May 16th from 12-2pm at the Manchester Arndale Centre store. Hope to see you there!

And a mini competition for you...
While at Games Day Baltimore, I was signing a copy of Mechanicum for a nice man called 'The Jim', but caught a snippet of conversation from Nathan next to me and ended up signing the book to 'The Bob'. Rather than waste this copy of the book, I figured it could make a good prize, together with some other goodies I have here. So if you're called Bob and would like to win a signed copy of Mechanicum, or have some other pressing reason why you need a book signed to Bob, reply to this post with your reasoning in 50 words or less. In a couple of weeks, I'll pick a winner and send some stuff on to you. Good luck!

Cheers and speak to you soon,

Graham

5/12/2009 2:47:34 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [12]Trackback
5/12/2009 4:47:30 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Because I'm Bob and I'm your Uncle.
5/12/2009 7:20:28 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Another great Games Day and it was great to catch up again Graham. Wishing you and Anita and the newest recruit all the best in the coming months!

Cheers
Dave
Dave Taylor
5/12/2009 8:26:53 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Thanks for the write-up and the photos, looks like it was a good time.
5/13/2009 12:26:00 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
I want a signed Mechanicum because:

This Bob is a 20-year 40K nutter with thousands of painted models and an insatiable passion for all things 40K, especially Chaos.

I'm a Mechanicus madman, using that theme on Baneblades and an entire Space Marine army.

Mechanicus model pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9360674@N04/page2/

Thanks!
5/13/2009 8:44:48 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Bob is my wife.
Seriously, her last name's Robert and all our friends call her Bob. And since I didn't get to translate Mechanicum (Nathalie did), I don't own a copy yet !
I mean, my wife doesn't own a copy yet.
And you surely know how pregnant women crave for 40K stories.
5/13/2009 2:31:03 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Eep! The interwebs gobbled up my post! Bloody hungry squig that it is!

Gah! Anyways awesome pics and there is much envy at those with access to a local-ish Games Day! Will have to go to the old country one of these days to experience a proper one for myself!

Munching my way through Nightbringer at the moment (two thumbs up - and the best part is there's plenty of material to get through before Courage and Honour!) although its going to get me in trouble! It doesn't help that there is boring Uni readings and journal articles to get through at the moment without one thing or another distracting me. On one hand there's doing research for a paper on Innocent III with a dozen odd books all dull and same-ish and on the other hand, there's the Ultramarine Omnibus calling you. It also doesn't help that Uriel is the type of guy who just isn't into books and the Codex Astartes and rather give in to that gut feeling. So just one chapter you say.

Next thing you know it's 3AM and there's a virgin stack of research materials that you need to get through! It's a credit to your writing but I'm holding you responcible for the all nighter to be pulled tomorrow night :P

Those damned books should have a 'Read responcibly' warning on the front cover with a sad student looking towards the barred gates of university!

Anyways great job and fingers crossed the gribbly squig of the net doesn't eat this post as well!
5/13/2009 10:47:13 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
It was great to see you in Baltimore, Graham! Always nice to catch up. I look forward to the next time we get to chat. Congrats to you and Anita on the baby! Our new one will be here any day now!

Looking forward to Courage and Honor!
Jeff Hall
5/14/2009 2:17:36 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
++begin transmission++

It would be like sacred oil to the cogitators of Adept Bob, youngest brother-adept of Runepriest* Elenaria, to in his archive have the holy tome of Mechanicum signed with his name, by the revered Fabricator General McNeill.

++All praise the Omnissiah++
++end transmission++




*As in, AdMech Runepriest. However much I like the Space Wolves ;)


The squiggly cake is so much awesome, that the only thing more awesome would have been to actually have a picture of The Man in Grey saving the entire Games Day by cutting it up with an axe. It looks awfully hungry.
5/15/2009 9:46:53 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Hey everyone,
There's something that does justice to the Red Orktober you see on the first picture : a video of it, that was shot at GD Baltimore. Check it out :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPxExyQOo7w&feature=related
5/16/2009 4:49:29 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
It was great meeting you and glad to know you had fun as well.

Good Luck to all The Bobs out there

The Jim
5/16/2009 6:09:39 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Makes me kinda bitter that I can't turn up to GD this year in my intended Ad Mech costume. I made a 6 foot double-headed axe for it too....but plans elsewhere have fallen through so I've just got to turn up as is with my usual mountain of books and be generally sulky I'm not walking around in robes with a big-ass axe.

On the flip side it means I don't have to we a mask all day (goggles were hard to find so I was going to fashion a rebreather). Bad side, no mask means I can talk.....at great length.....like I ALWAYS do.
6/2/2009 1:50:22 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Wasn't 'The Bob' a dance craze in the fifties? Or maybe I saw that on page 35 of the Joy of... Er, best stop there.

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