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Time for another update to the Black Flame release schedule. Hope you're all keeping up now.

out -- Durham Red: The Omega Solution (Peter J Evans)
June -- ABC Warriors: Rage Against the Machines (Mike Wild)
July -- Strontium Dog: Day of the Dogs (Andrew Cartmel)
August -- Nikolai Dante: Imperial Black (David the Bishop)
September -- Judge Dredd: Whiteout (James Swallow)
October -- Strontium Dog: A Fistful of Strontium (Jaspre Bark & Steve Lyons)
November -- Durham Red: The Encoded Heart (Peter J Evans)
December -- Fiends of the Eastern Front: Operation Vampyr (David Bishop)

All good book- and comic stores, plus most of the dodgy ones too, or direct from us at Black Flame. Let's see if I can cock up the URL link again, shall we...

Link: Black Flame website, inc. free first chapters

Since Amazon are plainly threatening to upstage us through the devious tactic of automatically posting info on any book we log in with the ISBN code registry, long before it's actually finished, I though I'd better give you an update on planned 2000AD titles for the next few months. More details, when they're closer to release, will of course be available on www.blackflame.com

Feb -- JUDGE DREDD: The Final Cut, Matt Smith
Mar -- ROGUE TROOPER: Blood Relative, Jim Swallow
Apr -- STRONTIUM DOG: Ruthless, Jonathan Clements
May -- JUDGE DREDD: Swine Fever, Andrew Cartmel
May -- DURHAM RED: The Omega Solution, Peter J Evans
June -- ABC WARRIORS: Rage Against the Machines, Mike Wild
July -- STRONTIUM DOG: Day of the Dogs, Andrew Cartmel
Aug -- NIKOLAI DANTE: Imperial Black, David Bishop
Sep -- JUDGE DREDD: Whiteout, Jim Swallow
Oct -- STRONTIUM DOG: A Fistful of Strontium, Jaspre Bark & Steve Lypns
Nov -- DURHAM RED: The Encoded Heart, Peter J Evans
Dec -- FIENDS OF THE EASTERN FRONT: Operation Vampyr, David Bishop

That cover link again, only not posted by an idiot this time...

Link: http://www.blackflame.com/scripts/cover.asp?id=26" target="_blank">Rogue Trooper: Blood Relative

That man Jim Swallow (Judge Dredd: Eclipse) is back, this time with a kick-ass Rogue Trooper adventure. When his latest lead on the Traitor General takes him back to the site of the Quartz Zone Massacre, Rogoe encounters a unit of brutal bio-warriors.

Writing by Jim Swallow. Cover by Dylan Teague. Extreme bloodshed and general mayhem characters' own.

Shipping to stores now, for release March 1st (UK), April 1st (US/RoW).

Link: http://www.blackflame.com/scripts/cover.asp?id=26

Hey --

David Bishop's first Nikolai Dante novel, The Strangelove Gambit, is trundling out of the cavernous Black Flame warehouses en route to bookstores, ready for release in the new year.

Plot basics: A deadly secret weapon... a shadowy doctor with a strange agenda... a finishing school full of beautiful young ladies... Hurrah!

Link: http://www.blackflame.com/scripts/cover.asp?id=20" target="_blank">So what should I look out for?

On its way to all better bookstores now: Kingdom of the Blind, David "the" Bishop's latest Big Meg epic. Notorious and bizarre crimelord Jesus Bludd (hoo-hoo) chooses the day of a huge senior judges' conference to launch his bid for control of the city ... with hilarious consequences, etc.

As you'll see (unless I've screwed up the link as per usual) the cover is by Julian Gibson, and I'm sure someone will chip in any moment with the original prog it was taken from, in case you were wondering.

If your local bookstore hasn't got it on the shelves, you can order it using the ISBN 1-84416-133-1 (distributor is Hodder Headline/Bookpoint) or you could start patronising a less crap bookshop. Or use Amazon. Or the Black Flame webstore. Or just send me some cash in carefully hidden coins and I'll send you one myself. Whatever, just get it.

Link: http://www.blackflame.com/scripts/cover.asp?id=18" target="_blank">Cover shot for ya

Fret not, good people.

Nikolai Dante: The Strangelove Gambit by David Bishop will be released by BF in January 2005

Jason X and Jason X: The Experiment, both by Pat Cadigan, will be released by BF in February 2005

Someone from Black Flame Towers is on their way down to Milton Keynes with a persuasive-looking cricket bat even as we speak.

Cheers, Dave, you beat me to it by a few scant minutes.

Er, what he said.

... Stalinvast

I am an idiot. Nordtstadt it is. Sorry, Gordon.

Charging out of our warehouse is our first Rogue Trooper novel, Crucible. Penned by the (insert most suitable adjective here) Gordon Rennie, this unashamed homage to all war movies with the words "Enemy" and "At the Gates" in their title pitches Rogue against an infamous sniper in the ruins of Stalinvast. Superb GI action and some dark secrets for true fans too. Check it out.

Look for it in stores worldwide October/November. Sample chapter for download up on www.blackflame.com now. Cover is newly minted by Mister Dylan Teague. He's great.

Link: http://www.blackflame.com/scripts/cover.asp?id=15" target="_blank">Cover here

The first book of a trilogy?

Yup.

Oops, no cover image for some reason. How about I make it a link instead?

Link: http://www.blackflame.com/scripts/cover.asp?id=13" target="_blank">Cover shot

Hey all --

Now shipping to stores for 1st September release: the first Durham Red novel, The Unquiet Grave, by Peter J Evans, who also worked on our well-received Dredd novel Black Atlantic. Series advisor Dan Abnett's also given this one the thumbs-up.

There's a downloadable PDF of the first chapter, a somewhat startling blood-orgy. Well, start as you mean to go on and all that. There's probably a cover shot around here somewhere too, a fine piece of Mark Harrison art. The second in this ongoing series, The Omega Solution, will appear next year.

Link: http://www.blackflame.com" target="_blank">Black Flame website

http://www.blackflame.com/scripts/cover.asp?id=13">

Thanks, Will.

We know we could just produce a tatty piece of knocked-out crap, so thanks for noticing all the extra effort we put in on WHM.

"Black Frame", eh? Perhaps I'll save that one for our limited edition art prints spin-off, coming 2073.

(BTW, tax on books in the UK is 0%.)