Orbit Links for July 25 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.
- Marie Brennan has purchased an original music composition in an online charity action which will become a theme for Midnight Never Come. In the same post she explains her stance on fan-fiction based on her work. And in another post she presents a round-up of recent review coverage.
- Robert Buettner has posted his Worldcon Schedule and is urging folks to take part in the Heinlein Society Blood Drive at the con.
- Another new blog on the block, Tor.com, is also at Comicon and they grabbed Dresden Files author Jim Butcher for a quick interview in a storage closet (plus bonus video material).
- Kate Elliott is losing patience with Hollywood blockbusters that are all about the man-factor and in which women are relegated to secondary supporting roles.
- The Book Swede has posted a review of Celia Friedman‘s Feast of Souls.
- Jo Graham posts Some Thoughts on Villainy.
- …and Jo Graham‘s debut novel, Black Ships gets a four-star review from fantasyliterature.net.
- Laurell K Hamilton has posted a new episode of her podcast via her blog and is hoping to make it a monthly event.
- Charlie Huston has written a second flash-fiction piece, Shadding Lyttle and has announced his plans to turn the two pieces to-date into the start of an ongoing online fiction project, ‘The Book of All Future Names‘.
- The Guardian Online has a feature on Breaking Dawn author Stepenie Meyer.
- Jeff Somers‘ The Digital Plague got roasted.
- Meanwhile, Jeff Somers‘ debut novel, The Electric Church has been reviewed by one of the BookGeeks.
As always, 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! We’ll happily name-check your website or blog with a heads-up credit in return (please remember to provide us with a link…)
