Orbit Links for July 18 2008
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:
- Marie Brennan revisists the concept of ‘Hard Fantasy’ over at sfnovelists.com.
- Jo Graham answers a common reader-query: “When did you know that you wanted to be a professional writer?”
- Pamela Freeman has posted her Denvention Worldcon appearance schedule.
- Kate Elliott opens a preliminary discussion on reviewing and asks whether someone should review something they’re already pre-disposed to dislike?
- Charlie Huston has posted a Flash Fiction piece entitled ‘Necrotic Culver’, which hails from a surprising source of inspiration.
- Karen Miller reveals the title of her forthcoming Star Wars novelisation.
- Jennifer Rardin posts details of a pair of US bookstore signings that she’s got lined up for August.
- New blogger-reviews of Brian Ruckley‘s Winterbirth at BookGeeks.co.uk and Dark Wolf’s Fantasy Reviews.
- Lilith Saintcrow explains why a low B.S. quotient is one of the key’s to successful YA writing.
- Jeff Somers gives due warning that his latest novel, The Digital Plague is set for a roasting at BookRoast next week, if you’re interested in participating in that one.
- Charles Stross has posted details of his imminent US appearance tour.
- Sean Williams‘ short story ‘The Inevitable’ has been accepted for the forthcoming Dozois / Strahan anthology New Space Opera 2.
- Walter Jon Williams has been interviewed by conceptscifi.com and makes mention of his next novel, This is Not a Game, which we’ll be publishing in March ’09.
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…)
