Journey to the edge of the world with Kevin J. Anderson's fantasy debut. Read an extract.
The thing was big and white and hairy and it was eating all the ice cream in the walk-in freezer. Read an extract.
- May 30th, 2008
Our weekly round-up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors that we’ve found (or have been pointed in the direction of) out there on T’Internet:
Gav over at Next Read has put Glenda Larke’s Song of the Shiver Barrens and Marie Brennan’s Midnight Never Come (UK/US) on his selected releases for May.
There’s a fantastic [...]
- May 30th, 2008
If you’re going to BEA in Los Angeles, stop by the Orbit booth (number 1720) to pick up advance reading copies of Orcs by Stan Nicholls, and The Company, by K.J. Parker. And be sure to drop off a business card to sign up for our new bookseller enewsletter.
- May 29th, 2008
Jennifer Rardin, author of the Jaz Parks series, is over at Fantasy Debut talking about life, writing and camel tipping (seriously). You can read the whole interview here and check out Jennifer’s latest Jaz Parks novel, Biting the Bullet (UK/US), in stores now.
- May 27th, 2008
Over at Grasping for Wind, there’s a great review of Brian Ruckley’s Bloodheir (UK/US), including this fantastic bit on how Brian avoids ‘Middle Book Syndrome’:
Often, the second book in a trilogy is accused of something called “Middle Book Syndrome”. The idea is that the second book in most trilogies is mostly filler and very little [...]
- May 26th, 2008
Lilith Saintcrow visits Jennifer Rardin’s blog to talk about her upcoming urban fantasy series, Night Shift.
To be honest I never knew I was writing urban fantasy until my agent told me so. I was just writing this thing I liked–ordinary fantasy didn’t have enough guns OR fast cars, and I’m a big fan of morally [...]
- May 23rd, 2008
If you’re going to Wiscon, look out for Orbit author Pamela Freeman. She’ll be there talking about her new book, Blood Ties, and reading from her academic work (If you get a chance to chat, be sure to ask her about her thoughts on science in fantasy fiction.)
Pamela’s Wiscon Schedule (check the site for up-to-date [...]
- May 23rd, 2008
Another online competition for you folks to enter - we know you love your competitions - this time with a rather interesting twist; one that Lilith Saintcrow fans will love, and that might just require the use of your best thinking caps…
Over at My Favourite Books, blogger Liz has set a Dante Valentine-themed crossword [...]
- May 23rd, 2008
Another weekly round-up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors that we’ve found (or have been pointed in the direction of) out there on T’Internet:
The sad news that Robert Asprin has passed away has come as a shock to everyone here at Orbit.
Marie Brennan has been visiting the UK recently, and blogged [...]
- May 23rd, 2008
A number of Orbit’s UK-based authors put in an appearance at Derby’s 2008 Alt.Fiction day back in April (see our earlier report) and we promised you some video coverage from the day.
Here then, for your amusement, edification and general entertainment, are a selection of book readings by Orbit authors Philip Palmer, Brian Ruckley, Charles Stross [...]
- May 20th, 2008
Pamela Freeman, the bestselling Australian author, was in the UK office on Friday and was kind enough to sign some copies of her latest book, Blood Ties.
We’re giving away 5 (yes, 5!) signed copies of Blood Ties. To enter, send your name with the subject line ‘Blood Ties’ to orbit@littlebrown.co.uk. The winners will be [...]
- May 16th, 2008
Another weekly round-up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors that we’ve found (or have been pointed in the direction of) out there on T’Internet:
Iain [M] Banks was interviewed by CNN during the Lincoln Book Festival recently.
And in the midst of a huge update, writer Paul Cornell mentions that Iain has seen the [...]
- May 16th, 2008
There’s a new review of Midnight Never Come [UK / US], Marie Brennan’s new novel of Elizabethan intrigue and fae power-politics, over at Curled Up With a Good Book.
Reviewer Mervi Hamalainen was particularly taken by the variety and depth of the often chillingly cruel fae characters in the novel:
“Midnight Never Come returns the fairies to [...]
- May 16th, 2008
Congratulations to Ian G, the winner of our competition for a special hardback edition of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Thanks to everyone that entered!
- May 14th, 2008
The new blog (with the awesome name) Rescued By Nerds interviewed Jeff Somers about the star of his novels, Avery Cates:
I’ve created a character who kills people, who physically assaults people when annoyed, who has stepped over the bodies of friends in order to save himself—albeit, perhaps, regretfully. Then I went ahead and made him [...]
- May 9th, 2008
Following its successful launch in the US in 2007, and a record year for the imprint in the UK, Orbit announces its intention to expand both lists. In the US, Orbit is going to double the size of the list over the next 3 years, taking its title output to 70-80 titles per year by [...]
- May 9th, 2008
Welcome to our latest quick-fire round-up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors:
Comicbookresources.com has posted a lengthy interview with Mike Carey on the subject of his involvement in the Coalition Comix project; a collaboration between Mike, Virgin Comics and a number of invited MySpace fans.
Jo Graham reveals the answer to the problem of [...]
- May 8th, 2008
We’ve teamed up with Chris, The Book Swede for this one: another incredibly simple-to-enter email sweepstake, with a copy of Blood Ties [UK / US] - the first part of Pamela Freeman’s Castings Trilogy - up for grabs by one lucky winner.
The book is out now in the US but won’t be be published next [...]
- May 2nd, 2008
The UK’s biggest sci-fi magazine, SFX, has posted a four-star review of Midnight Never Come [UK / US], the new novel by Marie Brennan, out now from Orbit UK, and published next month by Orbit US.
The book, which is set towards the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, impressed reviewer [...]
- May 2nd, 2008
Anyone who’s read EMPRESS – or any of the early reviews of the novel – will know that it’s a book with a very unsympathetic central character (and that there aren’t a lot of hugs to go around at the end.)
Over at Grasping for the Wind, John Ottinger talks to Karen about how the book [...]
- May 2nd, 2008
There’s a new interview with Orbit’s own Brian Ruckley online over at Mania.com.
Pat Ferrara asks Brian about how he got started as a fantasy writer, his major inspirations, the influence of Scotland on the lands of the Godless World, what fans can expect from the soon-to-be-published sequel, Bloodheir [UK / US] and where Brian will [...]
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