Archive for May, 2008
- The Orbit Team - 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:
If you see any online articles, reviews or interviews that feature an Orbit author, please feel free to drop us a line and let us know!
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- Alex Lencicki - 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.
by Alex Lencicki • 2 Comments • Posted in: Contents, News, Orbit US, Signings and Events
- The Orbit Team - 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.
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- The Orbit Team - 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 plot movement really happens. And often it is true. But if anyone accuses Brian Ruckley’s second book in The Godless World trilogy, Bloodheir of suffering from middle book syndrome, I’m afraid I will have to scoff in his face. Read the rest
You can find Bloodheir in all good bookstores this June or win a copy over at Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review now. You can also listen to Brian read from Bloodheir here.
Update: The Book Swede is running a contest for his ARC of Bloodheir. You can enter here.
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- Alex Lencicki - 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 and ethically ambiguous heroes and characters. (It’s the noir I read/watched at a very tender age. Scarred me for life.)
Visit jenniferrardin.com for more.
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- Alex Lencicki - 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 details.)
Saturday, 10:00-11:15 A.M: Reading from Blood Ties.
Sunday, 11:30 P.M. to 12:45 A.M. Imagination as Resistance, panel.
Monday, 10:00-11:15 A.M: Kings. What a Good Idea: Monarchy in Epic Fantasy Fiction.
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- The Orbit Team - 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 puzzle. Five successful puzzle solvers will win a copy of Lilith Saintcrow‘s new novel, Night Shift [UK / US], the first in a new series starring demon slayer Jill Kismet, which we’ll be publishing in the US and UK in July.
Hmmm. Eight letters, “devilishly tricky”? That would make it ‘fiendish’, then…
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- The Orbit Team - 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 a diary of her travels and adventures – everything from navigating London to meeting the Orbit crew, to living off supermarket microwave dinners – in eight installments, starting here.
- Michael Cobley (whose Orbit debut will be appearing early in 2009) was extremely impressed with Ian McDonald’s Brasyl.
- Laurell K Hamilton will be on the radio next week, as a guest of The John Carney Show and KMOX AM Radio.
- Charlie Huston is on the spot over at Fantasy Book Spot. He’s also posted a piece of micro-fiction on his own blog: ‘Pachuco Dave wants to dance’, as well as the maps for his next Joe Pitt novel, Every Last Drop.
- Glenda Larke was impressed with a Deathray magazine review of The Shadow of Tyr.
- Ken MacLeod is pleased to report that his story ‘The Vorkuta Event’ is appearing in new Cthulu / Singularity themed short fiction anthology The Cthulian Singularity.
- Lilith Saintcrow is offering her US-based readers a chance to win an ARC of her new novel, Night Shift.
If you see any online articles, reviews or interviews that feature an Orbit author, please feel free to drop us a line and let us know!
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- The Orbit Team - 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 and Mike Carey. Admittedly, the sound quality isn’t always the best – the rooms were a bit echoey and the microphone a little small – so you may have to turn the volume up a tad. And Sam requests that you don’t say anything mean about her camera-work; tables weren’t always available and knees don’t always make the best camera-mounts…
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- The Orbit Team - 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 chosen at random on June 5th, which is when everyone else can find it in booksellers nation-wide!
by The Orbit Team • 3 Comments • Posted in: All posts, Contents, Contests, News, Orbit UK
