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Shadowrise

Shadowrise Tad Williams

"A sublime piece of storytelling."—SFX
Read an extract.

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms N.K. Jemisin

"In this reviewer’s opinion, this is the must-read fantasy of the year."
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Read the first three chapters .

Category: Orbit US

Book Cover “Mind Meld”

I know you guys are big fans of hearing about covers and design from the artists/publishers side, so I thought I’d send you guys over to SciFi Signal, where they just posted a “Mind Meld” (dorks) on recent…

The Midnight Mayor is here!

Kate Griffin’s A Madness of Angels wowed us all last year with its imagination, magic, and inventiveness.

We got exclusive CCTV footage of Matthew Swift himself in London back in 2009– check it out on the youtubes!

Now, Matthew…

Cover Launch: THE NEON COURT

I know I maybe say a lot of Orbit books are “favorites” of mine, and considering I was a geek way before I was a cover designer, I think I can be forgiven for this. I’m really lucky, as I…

One of the most captivating new voices in fantasy…

Not only is N. K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms one of the most beautiful books I’ve seen for a while, it’s had some of the most stunning reviews too:

‘Jemisin’s…

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Excuse Me While I Drool.

Oh, I am a very happy camper. Would you like to know why? Shall I tell you? Indeed I shall. This is why: my amazing, fantabulous wonderful designers at Orbit have sent me the cover art for The Rebel Prince:

Glenda Larke’s The Last Stormlord out now!

Glenda Larke is a major talent in epic fantasy and her latest novel– THE LAST STORMLORD is out now in the US and UK!

She has been getting some incredible advance praise in her native Australia:

“…a bold, inventively…

“Blameless”, or “How To Design A Cover in 1:55 seconds”

A hyperspeed fast video of the cover design process for the third book in the Soulless series, Book #3, Blameless.

THE WAR OF THE DWARVES

Following Celine Kiernan’s post below on translation into the German language, it seems appropriate to make a quick mention about one of our own titles in translation released this month: The War of the Dwarves (UK/ US/ ANZ), from international…

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Translating translations

This is a sincere hymn of praise to my wonderful German translator Astrid Finke. She has, at one stage or another, discussed all the following things with me (and many more) I’m unbelievably lucky to have found her.

Deals and Deliveries: Karen Miller

I’m delighted to say that Orbit will be the very proud publisher of a brand-new fantasy series by Karen Miller, launching 2012. The series title is the Tarnished Crown, and Karen describes it thus:

A tale of love and hate,

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