Journey to the edge of the world with Kevin J. Anderson's fantasy debut. Read an extract.
The thing was big and white and hairy and it was eating all the ice cream in the walk-in freezer. Read an extract.
- July 1st, 2009
I’m very pleased to announce that we have acquired a new science fiction trilogy from new author Seanan McGuire writing as Mira Grant. The first book in the series, called FEED, tells the story of a small group of journalists living in an America infested with zombies. Twenty years after The Rising, Georgia and Shaun [...]
- May 12th, 2009
I’m very pleased to announce that we have acquired Terry DeHart’s debut novel, THE UNIT. Set in Northern California just after the bombs fall, the Sharpe family takes up arms to defend themselves in a world gone mad. This is the gripping story of one suburban family fighting off a band of savage opportunists, struggling [...]
- March 20th, 2009
Ever since I read The Poison Throne I’ve been wanting to share my great enthusiasm for this book, so I’m delighted to pass on news of our deal for the Moorehawke trilogy. Betrayal, torture, murder, an emerging rebellion and a beautifully pitched emerging romance all make for a robust, absolutely compulsive and beautifully written [...]
- February 27th, 2009
On the subject of the talented Jim Butcher, we’ve just acquired the last two books in his traditional fantasy series.
The Codex Alera sequence is set in a colourful Roman-esque world, where Alerans fight against the aggressive races that inhabit this world and against each other, helped by their unique bonds with elemental creatures of [...]
- February 12th, 2009
I’m delighted to announce that Orbit has acquired world rights in three new books by BSFA Award-winning author Jon Courtenay Grimwood. Although best known – and justly feted – for his extraordinary multi-layered science fiction, Jon’s new books will be historical fantasies. The first book, provisionally titled The Duke’s Blade, will be published internationally by [...]
- February 12th, 2009
We have just bought two new books in David Farland’s fabulously imaginative Runelords series, which began with The Sum of all Men. Berserker (Runelords book eight) and Runelords book nine continue the story of a world that was torn into damaged shadows of itself in ages past, creating a multitude of worlds all corrupted [...]
- January 13th, 2009
Hello and Greetings from Australia. This is my first contribution to the Orbit blog and I’m delighted to start with news of an exciting acquisition. We have bought the rights to Ian Irvine’s new trilogy, which we’ll be publishing around the Orbit world, beginning in 2010.
Ian is an outstanding and well-loved author of bestselling [...]
- December 19th, 2008
I’m delighted to say that we’ve bought ASH AND EMBER by the talented (and lovely!) Pamela Freeman. This atmospheric stand-alone adventure will feature ancient gods of lake, fire and river, and their clash with newer spirits. The people of the Twelve Domains will be caught in an escalating conflict governed by blood, belief and family [...]
- December 12th, 2008
I’m very pleased to confirm that we will be publishing two stand-alone follow ups to the forthcoming THIS IS NOT A GAME from Walter Jon Williams! The first of the pair, tentatively titled DEEP STATE, follows our game producer heroine from THIS IS NOT A GAME, Dagmar as she finds new ways to push the [...]
- December 10th, 2008
So, I’ll admit that I’ve been a slacker about putting up new deals and deliveries. MOSTLY because I’ve been busy. Busy taking vacation!!! I mean, um, editing. . . But November was a blur as I was sweating away in India, so so much has accumulated since September that I thought I would take [...]
- November 6th, 2008
I am pleased to announce our newest acquisition by debut author Amanda Downum in a three book deal with Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Agency. The first book in the series, currently titled THE DROWNING CITY, will be published in the spring of 2010 on both sides of the Atlantic.
I was captivated by this [...]
- November 3rd, 2008
Orbit is thrilled to announce that we have pre-empted an urban fantasy series by debut author Nicole Peeler in a three-book deal with agent Rebecca Strauss of McIntosh and Otis Inc. The first volume TEMPEST RISING will be published in Fall/Winter 2009.
- October 23rd, 2008
We are very excited to report that we’ve bought three sharp new urban fantasies by the talented Marjorie M. Liu. These feature an enticingly different slant on the supernatural and we’re starting off in Spring 2010 with The Iron Hunt …
During the day, Maxine’s tattoos are her armour and she is invincible. At night they [...]
- October 8th, 2008
Orbit UK is delighted to announce the following acquisitions from urban fantasy writer Patricia Briggs:
3x NEW MERCY THOMPSON BOOKS
We have acquired a further three fabulously sharp urban fantasy books for the UK featuring the ingenious Mercy Thompson: mechanic by trade, coyote shapeshifter by nature. We plan to publish yearly from February 2010, but don’t [...]
- October 8th, 2008
We’re delighted to be able to pass on a couple of items of film-related news from two of our urban fantasy authors: Patricia Briggs and Marianne de Pierres.
Firstly - as detailed in full in a press release posted over at PublishersWeekly.com - Patricia Briggs’ agent has sold option rights for the Mercy Thompson series (Moon [...]
- September 22nd, 2008
We’re excited to announce the acquisition of Stealing Fire by Jo Graham, a novel about the theft of the body of Alexander the Great and the founding of a new era for Egypt.
- September 10th, 2008
As the new guy here at Orbit US, I am very pleased to announce my first acquisition: Robert Bennett’s fantastic debut, Mr Shivers. It’s a genre-bending thriller set during Great Depression, following a man searching for his daughter’s killer in a lawless West ruled by railmen and filled with the desperate poor searching for a [...]
- September 10th, 2008
Its been a busy few months at Orbit US and I should mention some titles that were delivered recently. Hm…It’s very interesting how they all come in together. Now perhaps I can slack and get my cabana boy to bring me my margaritas. . .
First, MONSTER by A. Lee Martinez has delivered. [...]
- September 8th, 2008
Orbit is excited to announce that we’ve bought three more Jaz Parks novels starting with Bite Marks in October 2009.
For those of you who can’t get enough– or just can’t wait that long –don’t forget that Bitten to Death is just out and we’ll have One More Bite in January 09.
And take [...]
- September 8th, 2008
We’ve just had an eagerly-awaited delivery in the form of The Destiny of the Dead, the final volume in Ian Irvine’s fabulous Song of the Tears trilogy, set within Ian’s wider Three Worlds sequence.
This really is a major occasion, as it marks the end of an eleven-book cycle and a huge amount of hard [...]
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