Game writer and novelist Ari Marmell sold his fantasy novel The Goblin Corps to Editorial Director Lou Anders at Pyr. Anders calls the novel “brilliant” and describes it as “a very dark and very humorous novel where the bad guys are the protagonists. The novel follows a squad of goblin soldiers—an orc, a troll, a kobold, etc.—during what might be the final days of an evil empire facing attack from the combined forces of humanity and the other ‘good’ races. I cannot begin to communicate how excited I am by it.”
Bantam is publishing Marmell’s The Conqueror’s Shadow in February 2010.