Friday, May 9th, 2008 by Darren Turpin
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:
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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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