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The End of an Era – Matthew Ward Guest Post

Hello and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Matthew Ward’s new novel Legacy of Light, the third and final volume in the Legacy Trilogy, which is published today by Orbit. For this post, Matthew has written a fantastic guest blog in which he talks about the experience of finishing this epic fantasy trilogy, and offers up some interesting (and spoiler-free) facts about the brand new Legacy of Light. If you haven’t already, make sure you also check out all the other stops on this great blog tour for reviews, interviews and more guest blogs from Matthew – I’ll include details of where to find these at the end of this article – but for now I’m delighted to hand Track of Words over to Matthew…

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Monthly Roundup – July 2021

Another month has come around as quickly as ever, so it’s time for my usual Monthly Roundup here on Track of Words, where today I’m looking back at what’s been going on during the month of July. I feel like a bit of a broken record in these articles, as for a while now I’ve been talking about having slow months, but July has in fact been my quietest month for over a year – this article you’re reading will be my 10th and final one of the month. Life seems to be getting in the way a bit more than usual right now, with job hunting and illness being the headline hurdles alongside a general sense of finding it difficult to concentrate on writing, but hopefully it won’t be too long before I’m back in the swing of things. Fingers crossed, anyway!

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Aconyte Books Roundup: June/July 2021

It’s been a couple of months since I last did an Aconyte Books roundup, so in this article I’m going to take a look at recent Aconyte releases from June and July 2021. There are four new releases to talk about, between them covering a lot of ground across four different IPs – Legend of the Five Rings, Assassin’s Creed, Arkham Horror and Marvel: Crisis Protocol – so if you’re a fantasy and/or sci-fi fan I’d be pretty hopeful of there being something here which will appeal! As usual I’ll also quickly recap over a few other recent releases which are either now or soon to be available in UK paperback editions, then take a look ahead to some cool upcoming releases. Lastly, I’ll pick out a book from the Aconyte back catalogue to talk about in a bit more detail!

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Monthly Roundup – June 2021

Hello and welcome to this Monthly Roundup article here on Track of Words, where I’m looking back at what’s been happening over the month of June. For various reasons it’s been another quiet month, which has meant I’ve only managed 11 posts – mostly reviews – but to be honest I’m pretty pleased I got even that much done! As usual, for the first part of this article I’ll do a quick retrospective of those 11 posts, complete with links so that if you’ve missed anything over the last few weeks you can go take a look. Once that’s done I’ll do a general update with a few quick observations on the month as a whole.

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40k Reading Order: The Horusian Wars – John French

Hello and welcome to another 40k Reading Order article, where this time I’m offering a recommended reading order for the various stories that make up John French’s excellent Horusian Wars series. If you’ve ever wanted to read these dark tales exploring the warring factions within the Holy Orders of the Emperor’s Inquisition, but haven’t known where to start, then look no further than this article! With John’s very kind assistance I’ve put together a comprehensive list of all of the Horusian Wars stories to date – which include novels, short stories and audio dramas – based on their in-universe chronological order.

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Monthly Roundup – May 2021

Hello and welcome to another Monthly Roundup article here on Track of Words, where as usual I’m taking a look back at what’s been going on over the last few weeks. I’d say it’s been slightly quieter on Track of Words than the last few months, but hopefully there’s still been plenty of new content to keep your interest, and I’ve been busy planning interesting things to work on in future. For the first part of the article I’ll do my usual run through of all the reviews, author interviews and blog articles that I’ve published over the last few weeks, so if you missed anything you can click on the links and go take a look. Once that’s done, I’ve got a couple of things I want to talk about in the general update section, so check that out for a bit about why I’m cutting down on Black Library reviews and interviews, and some thoughts on a Track of Words landmark that I’ve recently passed.

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Where to Start With Black Library: Age of Sigmar Grand Alliance Order

Hello and welcome to this instalment of my Where to Start With Black Library article series, where I’m offering suggestions for good entry points into BL’s various ranges, and attempting to demystify Warhammer fiction a little bit. Historically, Black Library hasn’t provided much in the way of guidance regarding its massive range of stories, so I was pleased to see a recent (at the time I’m writing this) Warhammer Community article offering suggestions for where to start with Age of Sigmar books exploring the Grand Alliance Order – the ‘good guys’ (ish) of the Mortal Realms. While I applaud the intentions of this article, I didn’t think it was very thorough, and I didn’t necessarily agree with all of its suggestions, so I’ve put together an article myself on the same topic.

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Where to Start with Black Library: Necromunda

If you’ve ever looked at Black Library’s range of Necromunda stories and thought “that looks cool, but I’ve no idea where to start” then don’t worry – I’m going to do my best to help! As with pretty much everything BL produces, it’s tough to figure out in which order to read these stories and whether any of them are connected, but that’s where my series of Where to Start With Black Library articles comes in. I’m always keen to try to demystify Warhammer fiction, so in this article I’ll offer a few suggestions for what I think might be good entry points to Necromunda as a setting and as a fiction range.

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Aconyte Books Roundup: May 2021

Welcome to my Aconyte Books roundup for May, where I’m going to take a look at the two new books being published this month – a pair of Marvel: Heroines novels featuring fantastic characters drawn from the pages of Marvel comic books. I’ll also take a quick look both back at what was published in April and ahead to what’s due in June, before picking out a book from the ever-growing Aconyte back catalogue to talk about a bit more. As usual I’ll include the publisher’s synopsis for the two new novels, and this month I can link out to reviews and author interviews for both books!

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Monthly Roundup – April 2021

Hello and welcome to another Monthly Roundup article here on Track of Words – somehow April is already over, and we’re now a third of the way through 2021! In terms of reading I had a great month, split pretty evenly between reading for review and purely for fun, even if I slowed down quite a bit over the last few days as I got away from London and had a bit of time by the seaside. I’ve kept pretty busy on Track of Words too, with 15 posts since my last monthly roundup, weighted quite heavily towards reviews. I didn’t set out to write loads of reviews, it just happened that way!

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