All Orc, No Play!
- July 31st, 2008
The Orcs are coming! And to help introduce them we’ve created an Orc Mail website and Orc widgets.
And… if you’re one of the first ten people to post an Orc widget to your website…
Archive for July, 2008
Stephenie Meyer’s BREAKING DAWN – Launch Day events
- July 30th, 2008
Breaking Dawn, the fourth title in Stephenie Meyer’s global mega-selling Twilight Saga series, will be published in the UK on Monday August 4th.
To celebrate the launch of the eagerly-awaited conclusion to the story of Bella and Edward, dozens of…
Andrzej Sapkowski: Fantasist, Cat Fancier.
- July 30th, 2008
Over at Of Blog of the Fallen, Larry has translated this June 2008 Fantasymundo interview with Andrzej Sapkowski. There are some marvelous insights from the author, including this digression on cats:
“For me the cats are an
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What I Learned at Comicon
- July 29th, 2008
- A new usage for the word “harpooning” (Thanks Lilith!)
- Big frakkin’ bags are a big frakkin’ hit.
- No matter how innocent the intent, grown men with giant Curious George dolls should not offer free hugs on
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Orbit authors taking part in Conflux 5 Virtual Minicon
- July 29th, 2008
Canberra’s fifth annual Conflux convention takes place later this year, over the weekend of Friday October 3rd – Monday October 6th, at The Marque, Canberra, Australia.
Ahead of the main event, Conflux is staging a Virtual Minicon this…
Orbit Links for July 25 2008
- July 25th, 2008
Welcome to our regular Friday links round-up. Plenty to get through this week, so without further ado:
- New blog on the block, Suvudu.com, has posted video footage of Kelley Armstrong signing for fans at Comicon.
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Marie Brennan talks to Amazon.com’s Omnivoracious
- July 25th, 2008
Jeff VanderMeer put six questions to Marie Brennan, author of Midnight Never Come [UK/US], for a piece on the Amazon.com blog, Omnivoracious.
Marie answers questions on her academic background in archaeology and folklore and how that helps…
Orbit’s 300th Post! And our Top 30 items to-date…
- July 24th, 2008
According to our content-management system (and we have no reason to believe that it would lie to us) this is the 300th post to go out on the Orbit website since we launched it back in March last year.
To…
New-look StephenieMeyer.co.uk website goes live
- July 24th, 2008
We’ve just re-launched the UK website of mega-bestselling author Stephenie Meyer, whose Twilight saga is published in the UK by Orbit’s sister-imprint, Atom.
It looks a lot like this:
The fourth book of the saga,…