My first blog
Well, here I am sat at my laptop pondering on my first blog post. I have to admit, blogging is pretty new for me so I daresay I'll ramble a fair bit before I work out what to say. I guess the first thing would be 'welcome', both to my site and my world, I guess.
By now, you've no doubt realised that you're on the Official Nick Kyme website, author and editor extreme, or maybe you've happened here by mistake looking for the squash player of the same name? (It's true; I keep finding references to it on the web and even got an email once asking me if I was heading over to Bemuda and would I meet my fellow squash buddies there - wish I'd gone...). If not, then maybe you'd read a few of my books and are keen to find out what else I'm up to. More the merrier, I say.
My back catalogue is pretty short at the moment, and it consists mainly of pulpy, genre-based, franchise fiction about the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000. I was pondering on this very fact a few days ago and it got me thinking about this kind of fiction as a whole. There's a lot of it out there, be it Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or even Batman, and it really caters to the true fans of the genre. Me, for instance: I'm a huge fan of the Dark Knight (that's Batman for the unenlightened) and have recently partaken in reading some of the aforementioned genre fiction on this very subject. I have to say, it was pretty exciting; getting to read about one of my favourite characters in a whole new medium: discovering subtle nuances about his character and world, adding more flesh to the bones of the dark Gotham milieu. I suppose that's what fans of the Warhammer fiction I get to write feel, too - well, they do if we (and by 'we' I mean authors) do our jobs right. It's a pretty cool feeling.
For fellow Dark Knight aficionados, these tie-in books come highly recommended. Fear Itself and Dead White are great reads, combining elements of the Batman mythos with the basic tenets of crime/thriller fiction (another favourite genre of mine, but more on that in another post). Far and away the best, though, was No Man's Land, which fans will know is the novelisation of the graphic novel of the same name. It's written by Greg Rucka and, though elements of the original story have been truncated to fit into the punishing novel format, it's an excellent book and comes highly recommended. If you're thinking of sampling the dark delights yourselves, it's a fairly tricky book to get hold of as it's only available in the US. Try the marketplace areas of book seller websites or auction sites and you should find it.
The subject of genre fiction, not just the Batman variety, raises another important point, too. Read widely. I find it really useful to read what other writers are doing in a similar field, both to enjoy and to analyse. It's a good rule of thumb for any writer, and is often inspiring.
I'll keep readers of this blog (if there are any out there...) up to date with my literary habits in future posts. Doubtless, the Dark Knight will come up again but I think next time I'll write something about my favourite crime authors and, of course, what I'm currently writing, too.
Until then...
By now, you've no doubt realised that you're on the Official Nick Kyme website, author and editor extreme, or maybe you've happened here by mistake looking for the squash player of the same name? (It's true; I keep finding references to it on the web and even got an email once asking me if I was heading over to Bemuda and would I meet my fellow squash buddies there - wish I'd gone...). If not, then maybe you'd read a few of my books and are keen to find out what else I'm up to. More the merrier, I say.
My back catalogue is pretty short at the moment, and it consists mainly of pulpy, genre-based, franchise fiction about the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000. I was pondering on this very fact a few days ago and it got me thinking about this kind of fiction as a whole. There's a lot of it out there, be it Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or even Batman, and it really caters to the true fans of the genre. Me, for instance: I'm a huge fan of the Dark Knight (that's Batman for the unenlightened) and have recently partaken in reading some of the aforementioned genre fiction on this very subject. I have to say, it was pretty exciting; getting to read about one of my favourite characters in a whole new medium: discovering subtle nuances about his character and world, adding more flesh to the bones of the dark Gotham milieu. I suppose that's what fans of the Warhammer fiction I get to write feel, too - well, they do if we (and by 'we' I mean authors) do our jobs right. It's a pretty cool feeling.
For fellow Dark Knight aficionados, these tie-in books come highly recommended. Fear Itself and Dead White are great reads, combining elements of the Batman mythos with the basic tenets of crime/thriller fiction (another favourite genre of mine, but more on that in another post). Far and away the best, though, was No Man's Land, which fans will know is the novelisation of the graphic novel of the same name. It's written by Greg Rucka and, though elements of the original story have been truncated to fit into the punishing novel format, it's an excellent book and comes highly recommended. If you're thinking of sampling the dark delights yourselves, it's a fairly tricky book to get hold of as it's only available in the US. Try the marketplace areas of book seller websites or auction sites and you should find it.
The subject of genre fiction, not just the Batman variety, raises another important point, too. Read widely. I find it really useful to read what other writers are doing in a similar field, both to enjoy and to analyse. It's a good rule of thumb for any writer, and is often inspiring.
I'll keep readers of this blog (if there are any out there...) up to date with my literary habits in future posts. Doubtless, the Dark Knight will come up again but I think next time I'll write something about my favourite crime authors and, of course, what I'm currently writing, too.
Until then...
posted by Nick Kyme at
17:25
2 Comments:
blogging is pretty new for me so I daresay I'll ramble a fair bit before I work out what to say
Didn't anyone tell you blogging is rambling :-)
I'll keep readers of this blog (if there are any out there...)
yes you might well wonder sometimes if blogging is simply a high tech form of talking to yourself.
Ha, ha - yes, perhaps I should view it that way.
I'd often talk to myself even when I wasn't blogging, so I might as well do it in the hope that others might be listening and be able to make sense of my ramblings. :-)
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