Link Round-Ups
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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Friday, May 23rd, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Another 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:
- The sad news that Robert Asprin has passed away has come as a shock to everyone here at Orbit.
- Marie Brennan has been visiting the UK recently, and blogged a diary of her travels and adventures - everything from navigating London to meeting the Orbit crew, to living off supermarket microwave dinners - in eight installments, starting here.
- Michael Cobley (whose Orbit debut will be appearing early in 2009) was extremely impressed with Ian McDonald’s Brasyl.
- Laurell K Hamilton will be on the radio next week, as a guest of The John Carney Show and KMOX AM Radio.
- Charlie Huston is on the spot over at Fantasy Book Spot. He’s also posted a piece of micro-fiction on his own blog: ‘Pachuco Dave wants to dance’, as well as the maps for his next Joe Pitt novel, Every Last Drop.
- Glenda Larke was impressed with a Deathray magazine review of The Shadow of Tyr.
- Ken MacLeod is pleased to report that his story ‘The Vorkuta Event’ is appearing in new Cthulu / Singularity themed short fiction anthology The Cthulian Singularity.
- Lilith Saintcrow is offering her US-based readers a chance to win an ARC of her new novel, Night Shift.
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 16th, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Another 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:
- Iain [M] Banks was interviewed by CNN during the Lincoln Book Festival recently.
- And in the midst of a huge update, writer Paul Cornell mentions that Iain has seen the script of his radio adaptation of ‘The State of the Art’ and has declared himself pleased.
- Kate Elliott talks about the importance of researching believable social structures as part of the process of world-building, over at her LiveJournal.
- Jo Graham reveals that she’s working on two more historical novels set in the ancient world (as is her rather superb debut, Black Ships…)
- …and Jo has also posted a short background story explaining the origins of one of the supporting characters in Black Ships [warning: possible spoilers!]
- Laurell K. Hamilton has posted a new podcast in which she answers a dozen questions put to her by fans via her message board.
- Charlie Huston has posted his outline, no-particular-order recommended reading list by way of explaining the influences behind his current vamp-noir series.
- From Robert Buettner we learn that there’s a subtle difference between finishing a book and actually completing a book.
- The Book Swede is running an email sweepstake to win a copy of The Host by Stephenie Meyer… not sure what the closing date is, but you’d be best off getting your entry in quick!
- Philip Palmer is delighted to report that he’ll be going to the Cannes Film Festival this year. Hopefully he’ll be able to blog a few snaps of anything sf-nal he encounters while he’s out there…
- Jeff Somers has blogged about his recent experiences guesting on the Joey Reynolds radio show.
- Charles Stross walks us through a few recent developments in the Fermi Paradox and then with his next breath goes on to explain just why your Internet experience might sometimes seem so slow. Is there anything this man can’t explain?
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 9th, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Welcome to our latest quick-fire round-up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors:
- Comicbookresources.com has posted a lengthy interview with Mike Carey on the subject of his involvement in the Coalition Comix project; a collaboration between Mike, Virgin Comics and a number of invited MySpace fans.
- Jo Graham reveals the answer to the problem of finding the time to write a novel whilst holding down a full-time career: stop cleaning the house (temporarily!)
- Charlie Huston has posted a link to a video of his recent interview for Swedish arts programme Kobra [the intro and questions are in Swedish, but the answers are in English...]
- Glenda Larke compares the falling number of readers in the US with the rising number of published titles and asks who’s going to read all those books?
- Ken MacLeod was interviewed by Alex Fitch on the evening of the Arthur C. Clarke Awards, for Sci-Fi-London’s ‘Reality Check’ podcast, along with Richard Morgan and Stephen Baxter. [sent in by Joe Gordon]
- The ‘Fantasy Book Critic’ blog reveals that a recent Stephenie Meyer email sweepstake was, without a shadow a of a doubt, their most popular competition to-date, with no fewer than 6,919 entrants…
- Lilith Saintcrow points us in the direction of a new Dante Valentine LiveJournal fan community.
- YourMomsBasement.com’s ‘Rescued by Nerds’ blog features Jeff Somers‘ brand new Avery Cates novel, The Digital Plague in their Weekly Picks for May 6th: “noirish post-cyberpunk in the vein of Richard Morgan or Jon Courtenay Grimwood…”
- Charles Stross discusses the ‘bang-per-buck’ requirements involved in crafting longer works of fiction, particularly series fiction.
- In a recent blog post on YA sf/f (that’s sparked another round of full-throated blogoshpere debate), John Scalzi highlights Scott Westerfeld as one of the leading authors on the YA bookshelves.
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 2nd, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Welcome to another quick round-up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors:
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, April 25th, 2008 by The Orbit Team
Here’s a quick round-up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors, that we’ve found - or have been brought to our attention - this week:
- The new Iain M Banks Culture novel, Matter, has been thoroughly discussed by four of the UK’s top genre bloggers this week.
- Jim Butcher has been posting a series of articles on the art and craft of writing over at his Livejournal. The latest installment offers a few tips on organising your writing.
- Marianne de Pierres was delighted by R.J. Burgess’ insightful review of her current Orbit novel, Dark Space, on StrangeHorizons.com.
- Tom Holt’s official website has been updated with information about his brand new novel The Better Mousetrap.
- Via Tanya Huff’s Livejournal, we learn that the Canadian TV adaptation based on her Vicki Nelson books has been nominated for a Constellation Award.
- J.V. Jones has posted a short extract from A Sword From Red Ice, part three of her current fantasy series Sword of Shadows, over at the journal page of her website, JVJ.com.
- Movie news site Slashfilm.com has a profile of the forthcoming movie adaptation of Twilight, which is based on the mega-selling series of novels by Stephenie Meyer, published in the UK by Orbit’s sister imprint, Atom, and in the US by Little, Brown Young Readers. And MSN movies has posted not one, not two, but three set-visit feature items.
- Jeff Somers shares a few observations on the economics of writing for a living and writing as a lifestyle choice, over at his blog, Said Cunning Old Fury.
- Tricia Sullivan talks to editor Jonathan Strahan about her short story ‘Post-Ironic Stress Syndrome’, which appears in the new anthology The Starry Rift.
- Orbit & Atom author Scott Westerfeld has been interviewed by Iain Emsley at Yatterings.com on the subject of his Midnighters series.
- And Scott Westerfeld has posted a piece on his blog about a recent research trip that involved taking a zeppelin ride in Germany.
If you spot an interesting online article featuring an Orbit author, please feel free to drop us a line and let us know!
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