Orbit Links for October 31st 2008
Hello and a very Happy Hallowe’en / All Hallows’ Eve / Stuff-Your-Face-With-Candy Night to you all. Here are a few online treats (no tricks, we promise!) featuring Orbit Authors or coverage of their books:
- Jennifer Rardin has a zombie (!) story up at The League of Reluctant Adults.
- Marie Brennan shares a midnight revelation on the importance of blood, love and rhetoric in fiction (with a hat-tip to Tom Stoppard).
- And Marie Brennan’s Midnight Never Come continues to attract reviewers’ attention, months after publication: NextRead.co.uk is the latest blog to label it “highly recommended”.
- Reviewer Kelly Malcher has good things to say about Orphanage, the first book in Robert Buettner’s Jason Wander series, over at Fandomania.com.
- The latest edition of pdf e-zine Falcata Times (warning: cover art somewhat NSFW) includes an interview with Jacqueline Carey.
- New-author-on-the-Orbit-block Michael Cobley seems rather pleased with the Steve Stone cover artwork for his new novel The Seeds of Earth.
- Kate Elliott answers readers’ questions: on developing themes and on outlining her novels.
- Pamela Freeman has re-posted Stuart Mayne’s review of her latest Orbit novel, Deep Water.
- Charlie Huston’s US Publisher, Random House, is giving away pdf copies of his three ‘Hank Thompson’ crime novels, in conjunctions with MonstersAndCritics.com.
- Meanwhile Charlie Huston has posted reader Anne Kimbol’s Joe Pitt primer - warning: spoilers! - as well as part VIII of his ongoing Book of All Future Names project.
- Glenda Larke says fantasy writers shouldn’t be afraid of using fantasy tropes, memes and clichés, as long as they use them well.
- Ken MacLeod has taken part in Spiked Online’s Enlightening the Future debate [via Futurismic.com]
- John C. Snider takes a look at Ken MacLeod’s The Night Sessions in his SfiFiDimensions.com review.
- Two more reviews of K. J. Parker’s new stand-alone fantasy novel The Company: Highlander’s Book Reviews calls it a novel that goes “beyond the boundaries and norms of the fantasy genre” and Fantasy Book News and Reviews uses the recent Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist review as a springboard for a discussion of the book’s central premise.
- Marianne de Pierres reveals the title of the fourth book in her Sentients of Orion series, and that our very own ‘Big Ed‘ was instrumental in the process…
- Lilith Saintcrow explains why writers do what they do and explores the myth of the destructive artist.
- Charles Stross explores that strange feeling of having just finished a novel.
- Brent Weeks is winning over even more fans out in the blogosphere with his debut series The Night Angel Trilogy: BloodOfTheMuse.com has posted Paul Stotts’ reviews of The Way of Shadows and Shadow’s Edge, Liviu C Suciu’s review of The Way of Shadows is live at FantasyBookCritic.blogspot.com and BookSpotCentral.com has run another extremely favourable review of The Way of Shadows. Don’t worry, folks - not too long now until Beyond the Shadows reveals all…
- Orbit authors Sean Williams and Allen Steele have taken part in a mind-meld on the future of Science Fiction, over at www.SFSignal.com.
And finally…
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…)