Bella Pagan
I'm a commissioning editor at Orbit and have realised - to my surprise - that I am the longest-standing member of the London office. Among other things, my job involves reading an unfeasibly large number of words per minute, acquiring books for Orbit, and attempting to write glowing cover copy. Here, much time is spent debating whether to put in ellipses, take them out, leave them in . . . but I think I'm getting the balance about right (!). I started reading SF and Fantasy around the age of seven (before this it was read to me) and should think my brain is now interestingly furnished. And when not obsessing over my reading matter I enjoy customising things, including enamelling stuff that would look better that way (this doesn’t include my hands or kitchen table). Other distractions include haberdashery and the hopeful planning of interesting holiday itineraries.
Posts by Bella Pagan:
- Gorgeous new Celia Friedman cover, 28 Jan 2010
- The Engineer trilogy reissues — get your free extracts here, 25 Jan 2010
- Mike Cobley’s SF news frenzy, 22 Jan 2010
- Get an extract of Pamela Freeman’s FULL CIRCLE, HERE, 19 Jan 2010
- Available now, your extract of Ian Irvine’s THE DESTINY OF THE DEAD, 14 Jan 2010
- Get your extract of Jim Butcher’s PRINCEPS’ FURY here, 13 Jan 2010
- Deals and Deliveries: new dark fantasies by Tim Lebbon, 08 Jan 2010
- Cover Launch: fabulous new visuals for Marjorie Liu’s urban fantasy, 07 Jan 2010
- Deals and Deliveries: New Philip Palmer acquisition, 06 Jan 2010
- Palmer and Cobley are the latest thing …, 05 Dec 2009
- Philip Palmer at Sci-Fi-London’s Oktoberfest tonight …, 23 Oct 2009
- Launch Post: RED CLAW by Philip Palmer*, 13 Oct 2009
- The David Gemmell Awards, 24 Jun 2009
- Cover launch: Traitors’ Gate by Kate Elliott, 31 Mar 2009
- A few Friday links, 20 Mar 2009
- Deals and Deliveries: THE POISON THRONE by Celine Kiernan, 20 Mar 2009
- An actual Egyptian feast by Jo Graham, 09 Mar 2009
- Deals and Deliveries: Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera series – plus cover art news!, 27 Feb 2009
- More Dresden Files by Jim Butcher – Turn Coat extract, 26 Feb 2009
- Deals and Deliveries: new Runelords novels by David Farland, 12 Feb 2009