Orbit Links for August 15 2008
- - August 15th, 2008
Welcome to our latest weekly round-up post of links to Orbit authors’ activities elsewhere on the WWW:
- Over at Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist right now, you have a chance to win a 13-book Orbit prize pack.
- Michael Cobley has posted an extract from his soon-to-be-published short story ‘Weapon of Choice‘.
- Bookbag reviewer Natalie Baker has good things to say about Jennifer Fallon’s Wolfblade.
- Charlie Huston’s ‘Book of All Future Names’ project continues with Munez Lautner and Petty Affair and Castigleone.
- Fantasybookspot.com reviewer Trinuviel has been busy lately with reviews of Orbit titles by Jo Graham (Black Ships)and Glenda Larke (The Heart of the Mirage).
- Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series has been optioned by Universal Pictures.
- Speculative Horizons recommends the Sword of Shadows series by J.V. Jones.
- Jay Tomio is running a sweepstake to win a signed copy of Ken MacLeod’s brand new novel, The Night Sessions.
- Lilith Saintcrow explains how to write convincing combat scenes.
- Jennifer Rardin discusses the possibilities for Jaz Parks, the Movie with the folks at mybookthemovie.blogspot.com.
- Charles Stross tells IO9.com why he thinks UK SciFi is more hopeful than US SciFi.
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…)
August 15th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
some really good links this week guys
thanks for posting them
The Jordan movies I am sure are going to be as epic as The Lord of the Rings series, just hope universal put enough budget money to make them spectacular and do them justice. Will sure give the Narnia series a run for there money:)
Thanks for those competitions as well, hope to see more competitions on the Orbit blog site soon too, as the best competition should be put on this site:)
Enjoy your weekend
Paul
August 18th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Thanks for the feedback, Paul. Of course, so far Universal have just optioned the Wheel of Time film rights, and it can be a long journey from option to production, never mind opening night, but we can keep our fingers crossed that they decide to green-light sooner rather than later.