Link Round-Ups
Friday, October 3rd, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Plenty of Orbit author-related online activity to tell you about this week, so without further ado:
- Kelley Armstrong is writing a new ‘Otherworld’ story for the mini-anthology A Fantasy Medley, which was recently announced by US indie press Subterranean.
- Blogger Liz thoroughly enjoyed Marie Brennan’s Midnight Never Come and says so over at myfavouritebooks.blogspot.com.
- Robert Buettner has been interviewed for the Fandomania Podcast.
- Michael Cobley is pleased as punch with the Steve Stone artwork we’re putting on his new novel The Seeds of Earth when we publish next March.
- Jennifer Fallon has been reading some odd stuff in the name of “food-based research” - readers with a delicate constitution may want to look away now…
- David Farland will be teaching two writing workshops in Saint George, Utah next April.
- Jo Graham presents an introduction to her next novel, Hand of Isis, which will be published in the US and UK by Orbit in March 2009.
- Charlie Huston presents The Book of All Future Names, part the VIIth.
- And speaking of Charlie Huston: reviewer Paul Stotts was greatly impressed with Every Last Drop (due from Orbit UK in Feb 2009), whilst Matt Staggs presents an enthusiastic overview of the Joe Pitt series to-date.
- Empire Online presents its essential guide to Twilight, The Movie, which is of course based on Stephenie Meyer’s debut novel.
- Karen Miller offers writing advice on the topic of finding the moments.
- Over at BookGeeks.co.uk, reviewer Simon Appleby says good things about K.J. Parker’s new novel, The Company.
- Jennifer Rardin has posted parts I - III of When Vayl Met Jaz. Coming next week: When Jaz Met Vayl.
- Lilith Saintcrow offers some sage advice on the subject of how to get an agent.
- Jeff Somers muses on including modern technology in fiction and thereby running the risk that it subsequently loses its modernity.
- Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist is running an email sweepstake to win one of four copies of The Way of Shadows, part one of the brand new Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks.
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…)
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Friday, September 26th, 2008 by Darren Turpin
Welcome once again to our weekly round-up of online Orbit author activity:
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…)
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Friday, September 19th, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Arrrrrr me hearties! Cap’n Orbit here, markin’ International Talk Like a Pirate Day wi’ another fine haul o’ Orbit Author Links, plundered from the briny depths of T’Interwebs! Arrrrrr!
- Trudi Canavan will be one of the Guests of Honour at next year’s Swancon in Perth, April 9th - 13th.
- Felicia Day (Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog) caught up with Jacqueline Carey at Comic-Con and marked the occasion by posting a vid to YouTube.
- Writerly advice from Kate Elliott on the subject of how to avoid distraction when on a deadline.
- Charlie Huston has posted a few advance reviews of his new Joe Pitt novel, Every Last Drop, which we’ll be publishing early next year.
- Glenda Larke offers more writerly advice, this time on submitting a query letter to a potential agent.
- South African SFF blogger Dave Brendon has posted an interview with Karen Miller.
- Reviewer Mark Rose has good things to say about Orcs by Stan Nicholls, over at Bookgasm.com.
- Worldchanging.com has re-posted a piece that Charles Stross wrote for them in May 2007, entitled Predicting Possible Futures.
- This week’s tip for writers from Lilith Saintcrow: look for stories everywhere.
- Reviewer Rob H. Bedford takes a look at Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross, over at sffworld.com.
- Sean Williams is the guest and subject of the 62nd episode of the Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing podcast.
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…)
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Friday, September 12th, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Welcome to our regular Friday lunchtime Orbit links round-up. Shake the rain from your coat, pull up a chair, put your feet up by the fire and enjoy a hot cuppa while we tell you what some our our authors have been up to online in the past week or so…
- Dazed Digital has posted a quick interview with Iain [M] Banks, which was conducted at this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival.
- Paul Cornell gives a brief progress report on his BBC radio adaptation of Iain [M] Banks‘ short story ‘The State of the Art’ during a recent interview on IO9.com.
- As more of Robert Jordan’s vast collection of antique and replica weaponry goes up for sale on eBay, armourer Greg Kitchens has posted a few photographs to help whet potential bidders’ appetites.
- Karen Miller is now signed-up to write Star Wars Clone Wars novels nos #2, #4 and #5.
- K.J. Parker’s forthcoming novel The Company gets the SFFWorld.com review treatment, courtsey of Mark Yon.
- Fantasy & Sci-Fi Lovin’ Book Reviews takes a look at The Way of Shadows and concludes: “even after almost 700 pages, I can’t wait to get my hands on the next book.”
- Matt Staggs reviews Orcs, by Stan Nicholls: “an action-packed tale reminiscent of Glenn Cook’s “Black Company”
- Marianne de Pierres has posted a link to some preliminary character sketches from the forthcoming Parrish Plessis Animation Project.
- Marianne de Pierres has also taken part in a podcast discussion on the subject of believable characterisation.
- Blogger Jeff C of Fantasy Book News and Reviews talks to Brian Ruckley about the art of crafting battle scenes.
- Brandon Sanderson, who is currently completing the final part of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, posts about a forthcoming RPG based on his Mistborn series.
- The latest SFSignal.com Mind Meld article addresses the subject of readers’ and writers’ (or their characters’) opposing viewpoints, and Charles Stross is one of the respondents.
- Meanwhile, Charles Stross was distinctly unamused by recent hysteria over the switch on of the CERN Large Hadron Collider. (Anyone who is still worried about possible Hadronageddon can check hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com for an update on the situation…)
- Star Wars Imperial Commando: Order 66 by Karen Traviss has been reviewed over at Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review.
- Sean Williams celebrates his NYT Bestseller status.
- Grasping For the Wind reviews Orphanage by Robert Buettner.
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…)
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Friday, September 5th, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Here’s another selection of links to items of interest featuring Orbit authors that we’ve found online during the past week:
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…)
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Friday, August 29th, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Welcome to our latest round-up of links to items of interest featuring Orbit authors. Without further ado:
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…)
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008 by The Orbit Team
It’s Friday lunchtime, which can mean only one thing (well, around here, anyhow): it’s time for our weekly round-up post of links to items of interest featuring Orbit authors:
- Marie Brennan comments on varying reader reactions to her work, and possible reasons therefore, over at sfnovelists.com.
- Marianne de Pierres and Sean Williams have both contributed to an article entitled ‘How I Write‘ over at ConceptSciFi.com.
- Robert Jordan fans and collectors, take note: large parts of his collection of antique and reproduction swords, spears, hatchets and knives will be auctioned via eBay in the next couple of weeks.
- Stan Nicholls (author of Orcs, out this September from Orbit US) was interviewed on the Wonderlands ning community.
- Jennifer Rardin’s kick-ass heroine Jaz Parks is the latest guest of Jezebel the Demon over at the Cat and Muse radio talk-show.
- A fresh slice of writing advice from Lilith Saintcrow, this time on the subject of avoiding unnecessary deletion.
- And Lilith Saintcrow has launched a Wiki to provide background for her writing - check out The Shadow Journal and feel free to contribute (as per submission guidelines).
- Sean Williams talks to ConceptSciFi.com about his recent work, including the Astropolis series and his work on the official novelisation of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
- Over at Grasping For the Wind, there’s an interesting discussion developing on the merits of urban fantasy (a subject very dear to the Orbit team’s collective heart) and what a select group of bloggers think might be the Next Big Thing, genre or sub-genre-wise.
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…)
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Friday, August 15th, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Welcome to our latest weekly round-up post of links to Orbit authors’ activities elsewhere on the WWW:
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…)
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Friday, August 8th, 2008 by The Orbit Team
It’s the eighth day of the eighth month of the eight year of the century and the Olympic Games are kicking off (if that’s even vaguely the right term) in Beijing. But you guys don’t care about all that running and jumping and swimming and stuff, do you? No! What you really want is your weekly dose of Orbit Author links:
As ever and 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…)
P.S. A quick note on last week’s links round-up. I’m pretty sure I posted it at lunchtime on Friday, but at some point during the week it seems to have been relegated back to the bench and reverted to draft status. I’ve dug it out of the ‘pending’ file and reinstated it to its proper place, which would be here, in case you missed it… DT
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Friday, August 1st, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Welcome once more, gentle reader, to our regular Friday links round-up. We have another choice selection of Orbit authors’ online activities for you to peruse this week:
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…)
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Friday, July 25th, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Welcome to our regular Friday links round-up. Plenty to get through this week, so without further ado:
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…)
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Friday, July 18th, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Welcome to this week’s round-up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors that we’ve found (or have been sent in to us) over the course of the past seven days or so:
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…)
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Friday, July 11th, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Welcome to the latest weekly round up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors; various item that we’ve found online (or have been sent in to us) over the course of the past week:
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…)
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Friday, July 4th, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Welcome to our latest round-up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors. We’ve got a bumper selection this week, all new content that we’ve found (or has been sent in to us) over the course of the past week:
- Daniel Abraham has been interviewed in the latest issue of Locus magazine, and you can read an intro / excerpt over at Locus Online.
- The Fangs, Fur & Fey LiveJournal community will be hosting a mini-con as part of the Conestoga convention later this month, with Orbit author Marie Brennan and future Orbit authors PC and Kristin Cast planning to attend.
- Marie Brennan took part in a recent online discussion of gender imbalance in genre fiction and concluded that the argument is going to remain largely subjective until someone can gather some meaningful data on the issue.
- Robert Buettner has posted a progress update on his Jason Wander series (books one to three out now from Orbit US, published next month by Orbit UK).
- The Dabel Brothers have announced the creative team that will be working on their comics adaptation of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series.
- Orbit author-to-be Michael Cobley has been to see the Harlan Ellison docu-movie Dreams With Sharp Teeth.
- Kate Elliott really wasn’t at all impressed with the zero-authenticity approach of Mongol: The Movie.
- The latest edition of the Dragon Page Podcast features a full-length interview with Laurell K Hamilton.
- Tom Holt has posted his warts-and-all reminiscences of life in the legal profession over at in lawandmore.co.uk, with an ode to conveyancing thrown in for good measure.
- US comics publishers the Dabel Brothers have announced plans to produce a comic book adaptation of Robert Jordan’s mega-selling Wheel of Time series.
- Glenda Larke has posted her Denvention events programme, so do say hello if you’re at Worldcon next month.
- Philip Palmer has confessed to moonlighting as a short fiction writer in-between completing sections of his next Orbit title, and has sold a story to UK indie Elastic Press for next year’s New Horizons anthology.
- Brian Ruckley delves into the archives to recommend a selection of books that preceded the Web.
- Over at the Amazon.com blog, Omnivoracious, The Electric Church and The Digital Plague author Jeff Somers, has been telling Jeff VanderMeer about his dystopian vision of the future.
- North American residents can win a full set of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series over at the FantasyBookCritic blog, by entering the email sweepstake before August 2nd.
- Sean Williams has posted a list of his forthcoming appearances, including next month’s Worldcon.
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…)
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Friday, June 27th, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Welcome to our latest round-up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors that we’ve spotted (or have been sent in to us) this past week:
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…)
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Friday, June 20th, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Welcome to our weekly round-up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors that we’ve spotted elsewhere on the WWW (or have been pointed out to us) in the past seven days:
- Over at Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review, blogger Graeme Flory has a number of good things to say about a trio of recent Orbit titles: Kelley Armstrong’s The Summoning, Patricia Briggs‘ Blood Bound and Lilith Saintcrow’s Night Shift.
- Independent publisher Circlet Press recommends the works of Iain M Banks if you like your science fiction hot and steamy…
- Marie Brennan, writing at SFNovelists.com, explains how the cut and thrust of dynamic, real-time storytelling during fantasy roleplaying sessions helps to make her a better writer. And a new interview with Marie has been posted at the LiveJournal Community Fangs, Fur and Fey.
- Philip Palmer has nothing but good things to say about the Iron Man movie.
- Parrish Plessis and Sentients of Orion author Marianne de Pierres has been interviewed by Lynne Jamneck over at Suite101.com: check out part I and part II of the piece.
- Fantasy author Brian Ruckley assaulted by Arctic Tern! Audio footage available!
- In Lilith Saintcrow’s latest writing-advice column she explains why the term ‘hack writer’ isn’t necessarily as derogatory as you might assume.
- Charles Stross will be interviewed in Second Life tomorrow lunchtime (SLT) and will be announcing details of a mini-tour of the US South-West in the near future, taking in both DragonCon in San Diego and Worldcon in Denver.
- Sean Williams has posted his essay ‘A Discordant Melody’ - on the subject of his ongoing love-affair with the gothic - which will also be available as an extra in the UK paperback edition of his next Orbit title, Earth Ascendant. And check out his recent Astropolis Update blog post for some interview action, review links and more.
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…)
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Friday, June 13th, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Here’s another quick round-up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors that we’ve spotted (or have been pointed in the direction of) online this week:
- Fantasy Book Critic interviews Jacqueline Carey (we’ll be publishing our first book from her this August).
- Russell Kirkpatrick dispels a glamour-myth or two in a blog piece entitled ‘What’s it Like to be a Writer?’
- Elizabeth de Jager, guest-posting at The Book Swede’s blog, was very impressed by Stephenie Meyer’s new novel, The Host.
- Karen Miller will be attending Denvention, this year’s Worldcon, and will be appearing on no fewer than three panels, to boot.
- Philip Palmer ponders the future of batteries and concludes that he’s “essentially an optimist about the possibilities of scientific progress”, even if the universe he describes in Debatable Space is far from utopian…
- Brian Ruckley has been musing the possibilities of product placement in fantasy fiction (I do believe he might be serious… we’d best alert his editor).
- More how-to writing advice from Lilith Saintcrow; this week it’s a selection of ‘Quick and Dirty Ways to Write Better’.
- Jeff Somers spotted a copy of The Digital Plague on the Hachette USA stand at BEA this week (Hachette Book Group is Orbit’s parent company in the US).
- Charles Stross debunks the Singularity, or at least, some of the myths that have grown up around the concept as widely portrayed in science fiction.
- Scott Westerfeld has posted a clip from his recent TV news appearance.
- Sean Williams is delighted to announce that he’s had a novella accepted for inclusion in a Jonathan Strahan-edited anthology entitled Godlike Machines.
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!
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Friday, June 6th, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Our weekly round-up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors that we’ve found (or have been pointed in the direction of) out there on T’Internet:
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!
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Friday, May 30th, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Our weekly round-up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors that we’ve found (or have been pointed in the direction of) out there on T’Internet:
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!
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