With this and Mira interviewing Graham McNeill about Mechanicum, we are in a book rich environment. 😍👍 Victoria is so high energy that she overwhelms her bandwidth. This is how to sell people on the idea of reading books. Victoria, "I am so lucky to have Gav Thorpe as my writing mentor..." [Ian, Mira, and the audience all gasp] The Warhammer Romance imprint could be called, "Bodice Ripper".
Victoria is bang on the money. Nerds in particular massively overrate the importance of "plot" when plot is never the actual reason they love the material. Characters, drama, tension control and world building are all SO much more important.
Story is character and character is story. I think it's easier to do this kind of wishy-washy slice-of-life work in a novel than on film, but - on a fundamental level - story is about tracking change. I think that's an inherent weakness to the Space Marine books: These are not people who can change very much over the course of a story. They are roided-out, Emperor worshiping super soldiers on page 1, and they are roided-out Emperor worshiping super soldiers on page 400. Plot is deeply important. What nerds often get wrong is that world-building consistency and lack plot holes have very little to do with story quality. Bolter rounds have no exact ballistics, they're made up, and it doesn't matter if a bolter goes through 3 layers of stone in novel X and bounces off in novel Y. What does matter is who the story is about, what they're trying to achieve, and what they have to do in order to achieve it. And I definitely agree that a certain segment of the sci fi fanbase spend WAY too much time arguing about bolter ballistics or lightsaber crystal theory.
Very interesting food for thought there, thanks for taking the time to write out a long thought provoking insight. I agree with the sentiment but also in universe laws of physics need to be consistent across the setting with bolter rounds penetrative strength as the example cited otherwise inconsistently across books written by different authors breaks immersion. Void warfare suffers particularly badly with this with some authors having lance beams shot hundreds of thousands of km away and other authors up close and personal before firing shots.
I love what Mira has done with the author interviews on her own channel but the two of you interviewing together is just next level! More of this please ❤
What an amazing interview, and what a wonderful guest speaker! I've never encountered Victoria Hayward before, but her enthusiasm and energy is so obvious. As someone with quite a few girl friends who are curious about Warhammer but put off by how masculine and inaccessible the communities can be, this is going to be the media that I attempt to introduce them to the setting with.
@@totalCoolerUsername you get bulk of your video views in the first day of upload. As the youtube algorithm basically ignore it in favour current content and while personalised content might usher in a few more people. The numbers it has now will be the number it has in 3 weeks or even 3 months time. Don’t believe me? Look at the viewer count for his video for the tale of four games, the May episode has more view than March episode. Only by a piddly 3k but it’s still more, heck his latest video which is only 4 hours old has way more views than this one, although I will concede that his interview with the author videos do tender have rather low view count so in that context this is actually quite a popular video in that prospective.
Just want to say, blood sands is an amazing short story and Victoria writes and understands guardsmen mentality very very well. Looking forward to this book.
On the romance: gives a new meaning to „star-crossed lovers“. Maybe crossing. It‘s also quiteneatly geared to undermining fhe jmperium-centricness of it all. So have the tony, an imperial zealot, duetting with maria, insert maximally icky faction, singing “there’s a place for us”.
I was so excited to see she was gonna write in a little smooch for the cadian guy and Adare, because I was definitely picking up on that vibe, kinda glad she didn't given it would have prefaced her dying though
I really enjoyed this book!! I figured it would just be another generic 40k story but Hayward did a really good job making the characters fun and adeptly showing the death of a world in a way other books failed to achieve. It was really impressive how she made characters you actually care about out of these familiar tropes.
Amazing interview. Absolutely sold me on this book. I was probably not going to read it at all, but now I’ve bumped it up to next on my list. Can’t wait for the book club to come out.
It’s really cool to see these for new releases. Really nice to shine a light on newer black library offering. I’ve heard great things about this one but not read it.
I'm really looking forward to listening to Deathworlder. I'm really glad that Victoria gave Jude a shout out too, she's an excellent human being and insanely talented.
So cool! I hope you get to interview Jude Reid sometime - she's lovely IRL, one of the most creative people I've ever met. A true icon in the UK larp community.
I've lived in Notts (Beeston more pedantically) for the last 12 years and after moving to start a PhD... yes it is hard to leave the house without meeting some-one connected to GW
This is a fantastic interview. An absolute joy to watch and listen to - the rapport between the three of you is fantastic! (Also yeah you should interview Jude Reid)
Great interview. I’m honestly surprised how well she communicated the vibe of 40K despite being one of the newer authors. I’ll be buying her stuff from now on. Let’s hope a hardback is on the way for my bookshelf.
Just want to say that I bought the audiobook because of this interview, I'm half way through and loving it. While the Catachan don't sound Aussie, they do all talk like Jason Statham and I'll accept that as a worthy substitute.
This interview was a treat, well done all around guys. Deathworlder was a gem(hehe) of a novel, clearly written by someone who loves 40k and I quite enjoyed the audiobook version. I also loved seeing Victoria's enthusiasm and understanding of the setting on display here, she's quite charming as well as a talented author and I look forward to enjoying more awesome 40k stories written by her in the near future.
Nice! I was just thinking about downloading Deathworlder on spotify for my upcoming vacation. As often, your bookclub convinced me and I'm even more exited for the vacation to start 🙂
Well I liked her book more than any of your average Gav Thorpe who (imo) tends to write mostly bolterporn. A hell of a first full lenght book tbh. I do also recommend that Adrian Tschaikovski, which is Tyranids & Mechanicus instead of two of the most boring versions of guard... but to reiterate, I liked this book, I just don't particularly like cadians of catachans.
What fun energy interview! I had to turn off after a little while as it seemed to get a bit spoilery. But I might pick the book up because of this video. Gonna read that Genestealer cullt one first tho I think.
Victoria's novels Deathworlder is so dang good, if you haven't listened to the audiobook, I highly recommend. I wanted to ask though, I'm trying to find books by the author she mentioned; Jude. Do they have a Pen Name or something? I cant find their books. I want more good imperial guard books dang it! Anyone know who she was talking about?
@@stevepirie8130 there a heavy bolter gunner for laying down squad support fire, is that consider as a weapon specialist? Also I've a sharpshooter in the squad.
I enjoyed it and say it's worth a listen, especially if you're a big fan of the Imperial Guard. Felt like proper grimdark, in the way old 40k books used to.
Great interview with a fantastic author. It's one of the best written BL books I've read, and really looking forward to finishing. So much good stuff in it!
We've not released the Book Club video yet because it's only been out a few weeks so not many people have read it yet! But we've recorded it and it'll be up soon.
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With this and Mira interviewing Graham McNeill about Mechanicum, we are in a book rich environment. 😍👍
Victoria is so high energy that she overwhelms her bandwidth. This is how to sell people on the idea of reading books.
Victoria, "I am so lucky to have Gav Thorpe as my writing mentor..." [Ian, Mira, and the audience all gasp]
The Warhammer Romance imprint could be called, "Bodice Ripper".
Victoria is bang on the money. Nerds in particular massively overrate the importance of "plot" when plot is never the actual reason they love the material.
Characters, drama, tension control and world building are all SO much more important.
Story is character and character is story. I think it's easier to do this kind of wishy-washy slice-of-life work in a novel than on film, but - on a fundamental level - story is about tracking change. I think that's an inherent weakness to the Space Marine books: These are not people who can change very much over the course of a story. They are roided-out, Emperor worshiping super soldiers on page 1, and they are roided-out Emperor worshiping super soldiers on page 400. Plot is deeply important.
What nerds often get wrong is that world-building consistency and lack plot holes have very little to do with story quality. Bolter rounds have no exact ballistics, they're made up, and it doesn't matter if a bolter goes through 3 layers of stone in novel X and bounces off in novel Y. What does matter is who the story is about, what they're trying to achieve, and what they have to do in order to achieve it. And I definitely agree that a certain segment of the sci fi fanbase spend WAY too much time arguing about bolter ballistics or lightsaber crystal theory.
Very interesting food for thought there, thanks for taking the time to write out a long thought provoking insight.
I agree with the sentiment but also in universe laws of physics need to be consistent across the setting with bolter rounds penetrative strength as the example cited otherwise inconsistently across books written by different authors breaks immersion.
Void warfare suffers particularly badly with this with some authors having lance beams shot hundreds of thousands of km away and other authors up close and personal before firing shots.
I love what Mira has done with the author interviews on her own channel but the two of you interviewing together is just next level! More of this please ❤
I love warhammer book club so much! The emperor protects!!!
Great interview. I love how relaxed the discussion is and how much Victoria visible loves the setting. Looking forward to getting the book now!
What an amazing interview, and what a wonderful guest speaker! I've never encountered Victoria Hayward before, but her enthusiasm and energy is so obvious. As someone with quite a few girl friends who are curious about Warhammer but put off by how masculine and inaccessible the communities can be, this is going to be the media that I attempt to introduce them to the setting with.
Most enthusiastic interview ever conducted. That was ace.
Yeah but it’s not a popular video though.
@@ZabzimIt's up for 3 days ...
@@totalCoolerUsername you get bulk of your video views in the first day of upload. As the youtube algorithm basically ignore it in favour current content and while personalised content might usher in a few more people. The numbers it has now will be the number it has in 3 weeks or even 3 months time. Don’t believe me? Look at the viewer count for his video for the tale of four games, the May episode has more view than March episode. Only by a piddly 3k but it’s still more, heck his latest video which is only 4 hours old has way more views than this one, although I will concede that his interview with the author videos do tender have rather low view count so in that context this is actually quite a popular video in that prospective.
😊@@Zabzim
@@gabrielwalton4097 it’s been over a week and it still has less than 9k views but intervening the author do tend not to have many views.
There is so much Warhammer literature I often dont know what to read next, but this interview really has me sold on Deathworlder 🙂
Just want to say, blood sands is an amazing short story and Victoria writes and understands guardsmen mentality very very well. Looking forward to this book.
On the romance: gives a new meaning to „star-crossed lovers“. Maybe crossing. It‘s also quiteneatly geared to undermining fhe jmperium-centricness of it all. So have the tony, an imperial zealot, duetting with maria, insert maximally icky faction, singing “there’s a place for us”.
You know it's a good interview when it's a novel you haven't read and you stop half way through because you want to go and listen to the audiobook.
I was so excited to see she was gonna write in a little smooch for the cadian guy and Adare, because I was definitely picking up on that vibe, kinda glad she didn't given it would have prefaced her dying though
I really enjoyed this book!! I figured it would just be another generic 40k story but Hayward did a really good job making the characters fun and adeptly showing the death of a world in a way other books failed to achieve. It was really impressive how she made characters you actually care about out of these familiar tropes.
Amazing interview. Absolutely sold me on this book. I was probably not going to read it at all, but now I’ve bumped it up to next on my list. Can’t wait for the book club to come out.
It’s really cool to see these for new releases. Really nice to shine a light on newer black library offering. I’ve heard great things about this one but not read it.
I'm really looking forward to listening to Deathworlder. I'm really glad that Victoria gave Jude a shout out too, she's an excellent human being and insanely talented.
Her views on tyranids was perfect we shouldn't know what their intentions are. They are the most alien thing about Warhammer not even from our galaxy.
Wow thanks. It's not often there are so many laughs in 40k world. Dearhworlder is going on my wish list!
So cool! I hope you get to interview Jude Reid sometime - she's lovely IRL, one of the most creative people I've ever met. A true icon in the UK larp community.
Victoria’s passion for the setting and writing is amazing.
I've lived in Notts (Beeston more pedantically) for the last 12 years and after moving to start a PhD... yes it is hard to leave the house without meeting some-one connected to GW
I think this is the best interview on the channel! Looking forward to reading the book now
This is a fantastic interview. An absolute joy to watch and listen to - the rapport between the three of you is fantastic! (Also yeah you should interview Jude Reid)
Thanks for putting this book on my radar! The enthusiasm is contagious
Playing a game of killteam or 40k with someone as enthusiastic and lore-minded as victoria would be so fun
Great interview. I’m honestly surprised how well she communicated the vibe of 40K despite being one of the newer authors.
I’ll be buying her stuff from now on. Let’s hope a hardback is on the way for my bookshelf.
Great interview, delightful as always. I will definitely give this a read before the book club episode goes live.
Just want to say that I bought the audiobook because of this interview, I'm half way through and loving it.
While the Catachan don't sound Aussie, they do all talk like Jason Statham and I'll accept that as a worthy substitute.
This interview was a treat, well done all around guys. Deathworlder was a gem(hehe) of a novel, clearly written by someone who loves 40k and I quite enjoyed the audiobook version. I also loved seeing Victoria's enthusiasm and understanding of the setting on display here, she's quite charming as well as a talented author and I look forward to enjoying more awesome 40k stories written by her in the near future.
Yeah, this might just jumped to the top of my to read list 😄 Thanks for this delightful interview
Finished it today and loved it ❤
Victoria Hayward is a wonderful! Great guest. 🤌
Victoria was great guest and looking forward to reading the book!
If you want a nice description of tyranids, Desert Raiders is quite a good one. There's a few unsettling deaths in it too.
Needed a break from The Heresy.. immediately picked this up.
Nice! I was just thinking about downloading Deathworlder on spotify for my upcoming vacation. As often, your bookclub convinced me and I'm even more exited for the vacation to start 🙂
This is a great interview, made me want to read the book, so, mission accomplished!
Got my copy of her book a few days ago, she’s a great interviewee as well!
Victoria's enthusiasm alone makes me want to check out this book 👍👍
As an aspiring Black Library author this was absolutely great!
Actully started the book on audibel today, very cool with the interview
very cool interview, I am going to buy the book right away, sounds fun
I met Victoria at the UK Games Expo, really looking forward to reading Deathworlder!
What a fantastic interview, inspired me to buy the book, really looking forward to reading it
'Predator' meets 'The Road'... I'm in!
Well I liked her book more than any of your average Gav Thorpe who (imo) tends to write mostly bolterporn. A hell of a first full lenght book tbh. I do also recommend that Adrian Tschaikovski, which is Tyranids & Mechanicus instead of two of the most boring versions of guard... but to reiterate, I liked this book, I just don't particularly like cadians of catachans.
Love these author interviews
What fun energy interview!
I had to turn off after a little while as it seemed to get a bit spoilery. But I might pick the book up because of this video.
Gonna read that Genestealer cullt one first tho I think.
Totally recommend Day of Ascension. It’s super short, but very good.
That was really good, Victoria seems really nice. I'll check out her books!
Very cool interview. I love hearing about an author's process.
Loved every second of this interview
Well done Tori, you kept that quiet! Delighted for you!
CARTE-BLANCHE! WE NEED THIS!
I bought this booked and finished it 2 days. It was so good.
Just finish this one the other day. A great first black and library novel
This book sounds so amazing that I had to stop listening to the interview in case I spoilered myself!
Brilliantly enthusiastic interview on all your behalves!
I loved it when they said "its deathworlding time!" and they deathworlded all over the place(prob will read it when I am finished with my finals tbh)
Just finished the audiobook, super enjoyable. 😊
This book is next on my warhams reading list!
I just bought this! I'm going to read it before watching this episode
Horus and Loken: the forbidden love story. The future of Space Marine novels...
Victoria's novels Deathworlder is so dang good, if you haven't listened to the audiobook, I highly recommend. I wanted to ask though, I'm trying to find books by the author she mentioned; Jude. Do they have a Pen Name or something? I cant find their books. I want more good imperial guard books dang it! Anyone know who she was talking about?
She did Creed: Ashes of Cadia and has a Sisters of Battle book coming out. It's so good to see her getting her flowers, she's amazing!
Jude Reid
My wife would love 40k romance exactly like she described!
Im drawing my squad of adepta sororitas while listening to this. Only 1 left to finish, out of 5 women squad.
Any weapon specialists?
@@stevepirie8130 there a heavy bolter gunner for laying down squad support fire, is that consider as a weapon specialist? Also I've a sharpshooter in the squad.
Well, guess ive got something to use my audible credit on
I enjoyed it and say it's worth a listen, especially if you're a big fan of the Imperial Guard. Felt like proper grimdark, in the way old 40k books used to.
was thinking exactly the same :)
Great interview with a fantastic author. It's one of the best written BL books I've read, and really looking forward to finishing. So much good stuff in it!
Warhammer romance should be set in a genestealer cult.
Thank you.
My parents were vary concerend about the oocult influence of 40k back in the '90s. Hense I never acrued enough models for an army...
Started out with a bit of Draco, did a bit of crime... wait was the RPG moral panic of the 80s justified! 🤣
Lovely chat guys
Have they read this book? Just wondering if I was missing something?
We've not released the Book Club video yet because it's only been out a few weeks so not many people have read it yet! But we've recorded it and it'll be up soon.
@@ArbitorIan Ah, okay. Looks really good based on the interview.
FOR ZE LADY- uh, i mean FOR ZE ALGORITHM
Yo I was in gee dubs in bath today
I love me some Catachan.
OOOOOHHHHHH A NEW GUARD BOOK ?
Also Victoria looks pretty lol
CUTE.
Lord of the rings - a gateway drug
Romance in a Space Marine battle... 🤣😂🤣
or Custodians... fwuaaghh ❤
.....Vicky is pretty hot.... Minus that British accent. I'm jusy fucking About, awesome interview!
warhammer romance please!
:Z D
wtf is this? like a teletuby interview...grow up just a author nothintg more
You seem like a really well rounded and lovely person
Believe it or not, it is possible to keep your stupid comments to yourself
my my my, isn't our little man ego hurt knowing that a FEEEEEEEEEEMAAALE writes cool GW books? lol. loser.
I would love to read a Dannii Harwood 40k romance espcially how pretty she looks. after her next book interview her again
Ouch. My daft sister did that with a blender with a hand. 🫣