It’s been a Kelley Armstrong kind of month. Two weeks ago, Kelley shared her first trip across the pond for World Horror Con with us, and we heard about her new books last week. So, in the balance of thirds, we thought we’d cap it off with a bang.
We’ve got an exciting new book trailer for Frostbitten, out this Thursday in the UK, and while there are book trailers, there are also BOOK TRAILERS!!!! We tend to think that this one falls into the latter category, but we’ll let you be the judges of that, as always. . .
Call me naive if you want, but I don’t think there has to be a conflict between artistic integrity and commercial success. If anyone should know, it’s probably me because, miracle of miracles, I’ve managed to achieve no small degree of financial stability by writing about vampires, robots, demon ducks, and cannibal witches. I did believe that it was possible to get paid to write those stories, but I never hoped on being anything more than a guy who wrote obscure fantasy novels. Even that, I now realize, was ridiculously optimistic.
We recently published the hardback of Changes by Jim Butcher, the latest instalment of the eagerly awaited Dresden Files series, and we’ve been blown away by the response so far. And to see what all the fuss is about, read a few chapters of the book here. Below is just a bit of the early praise this book has received as PI Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phonebook, goes from strength to strength.
Fast-paced and compelling … Butcher throws one high-stakes curveball after another at his hero” Publishers Weekly
“Changes is a compelling installment in what continues to be an outstanding series … A can’t-miss entry in one of the best urban-fantasy series currently being published” Booklist(starred review)
“If you’re only going to read one Dresden Files novel, this is the one to read, as it’s got all the aspects that make the series great, with magic thrown around, lots of characters from both the worlds Dresden inhabits and wonderful pacing” TheBookbag.co.uk
“Changes is yet another excellent instalment in what is arguably the finest urban fantasy series being written at the moment” Bookgeeks.co.uk
“I am always delighted by these books and always taken by surprise but this one. Damn. Really that’s about all I have to say. This is a fantastic series with a brilliant lead and awesome cast of supporting characters” Un:bound blog
“It doesn’t stop til the OH MY GOD moment at the end of the book. It’s an emotional, engaging, gritty ride that doesn’t really let up apart from the laugh out loud sections that Butcher has such a talent for … Jim Butcher at his very best” Bookthing.co.uk
We also published Turn Coat just ahead of Changes, this being Harry Dresden’s previous outing. It was out in hardback last year, but SFX had this to say on release of the recent paperback edn “The Dresden Files are the best novels in the supernatural PI subgenre, and Turn Coat is more of the same — and a very welcome return it is too”. Here is a sample extract of this too for your delectation – and Harry Dresden will be back next year with Ghost Story!
Ten years ago, I went up to Rankin Inlet in 2000 with the hope that I’d get to teach, and I did (at the Adult Learning Center there), but as with most teaching opportunities, when done with the right spirit, you are the one that ends up being taught, and that was certainly the case with me. There have been many times since the great opportunity to work and live up North that I’ve thought about it. I’ve had dreams about it. It’s a place that even ten years later hasn’t left me. I wrote in a paper journal at the time, but documented my thoughts and impressions mostly through emails to my friends and family…
Ok how excited are you for this book? To get you even MORE excited, we have wallpapers! Book design by your friendly neighborhood Creative Director (that’s me), now in many formats to adorn all your electronic devices. Enjoy!
Also make sure to check out www.theFEEDbook.com to feel like you’ve gone inside the world of Georgia Mason and the rising…
Welcome back to your Monday morning installment of Orbit Cover Launch. This week I’m very excited to launch the cover of a brand-new book by science fiction great Greg Bear. Orbit is really excited to start publishing Greg Bear and we’re even more excited about starting with Hull Zero Three. It’s a fast-paced space thriller and a real page-turner. It’s definitely of the ilk of Aliens and Event Horizon, and I could totally picture it as a film as I was reading. It’s also a great place to start if you’ve never read Greg Bear before.
This cover was a little tough because although it does happen in space we didn’t want to give it that space opera kind of feel – it’s smart, but also much more immediate and suspenseful than operatic. It’s a much more in your face page-turning thriller, so I kind of tried to design a hybrid of scifi and big thriller book. The texture is SO much better in person, but for now you’ll have to make due with just a screen image. Read the rest of this entry »
- - May 4th, 2010
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