Orbit Links for August 08 2008
- - August 8th, 2008
It’s the eighth day of the eighth month of the eight year of the century and the Olympic Games are kicking off (if that’s even vaguely the right term) in Beijing. But you guys don’t care about all that running and jumping and swimming and stuff, do you? No! What you really want is your weekly dose of Orbit Author links:
- Graeme Flory has good things to say about Patricia Briggs‘ third Mercedes Thompson book, Iron Kissed.
- You can win a copy of Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Justice over at Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist.
- Kate Elliott has posted links to a couple of reviews of her latest novel, Shadow Gate.
- Jo Graham has posted a short background story that fans of her debut novel Black Ships might be interested in reading.
- Laurell K Hamilton fans take note: SFX Magazine’s New York editor has set up an online community for vamp fans and is looking to recruit new blood…
- J.V. Jones answers a reader’s email question: “how many books will there be in the Sword of Shadows series?
- Ken MacLeod’s The Night Sessions was rather favourably reviewed by James at BigDumbObject.co.uk, who concludes: “Serious, intelligent and highly enjoyable Science Fiction.”
- Stephenie Meyer fans might like to try their hand at some Twilight trivia questions.
- Lilith Saintcrow reveals that the secret to being a writer is… there is no secret, just a lot of hard work, professionalism and determination to succeed.
- Charles Stross has posted his Worldcon schedule for the weekend.
As ever and 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…)
P.S. A quick note on last week’s links round-up. I’m pretty sure I posted it at lunchtime on Friday, but at some point during the week it seems to have been relegated back to the bench and reverted to draft status. I’ve dug it out of the ‘pending’ file and reinstated it to its proper place, which would be here, in case you missed it… DT