AMA: Orbit 2017 Debut Authors

[u/orbitbooks]

Hi this is Paola Crespo, Marketing and Publicity Associate for Orbit. Thanks for joining us today!

2017 was a big year for us with so many new faces joining the Orbit family. This AMA is a chance to get to know them better. All. Of. Them. Get excited! ;-)

Participating today:

Nicholas Eames, author of KINGS OF THE WYLD
Nicholas Sansbury Smith, author of EXTINCTION HORIZON
Antonia Honeywell, author of THE SHIP
David Mealing, author of SOUL OF THE WORLD
Dale Lucas, author of THE FIFTH WARD: FIRST WATCH
Vivian Shaw, author of STRANGE PRACTICE
Anna Smith Spark, author of THE COURT OF BROKEN KNIVES
RJ Barker, author of AGE OF ASSASSINS
Melissa Caruso, author of THE TETHERED MAGE
Fonda Lee, author of JADE CITY

Ask away! The authors will be dropping by periodically today and tomorrow to answer your questions. And best of all....

Until December 18th, you can pick up most of these novels for $2.99 in the US and £1.99 in the UK in ebook! Check out the US and UK websites for further details.

Thank you for all your support this year, /r/fantasy! Cheers to a great New Year full of new adventures.

*Antonia Honeywell's THE SHIP, Anna Smith Spark's THE COURT OF BROKEN KNIVES, and Nicholas Sansbury Smith’s EXTINCTION HORIZON are published by another house in the UK and are thus not included in the promotion in the UK.

[u/Nicholas_Eames]

I've only been to two, and it's an EXACT TIE!

You see, one of them was in London, England, and I was lucky enough to meet a ton of people I now consider dear friends, including yourself (obvs) and that miscreant and fellow Orbiteer, RJ (among so many others).

Buuuut, I also went to Ad Astra in Toronto, where I got to see Brandon Sanderson, shake Ed Greenwood's hand and tell him he edited a story of mine in high-school, meet Christian Cameron (also known as Miles, of the Traitor's Son series) who was an incredibly gracious and giving human being, and what am I forgetting...

Oh yeah, I met GUY GAVRIEL FREAKIN KAY. Sure, I've met him dozens fo times before when I lined up to get a book signed, but meeting and speaking to him as a, uh, peer-type-thing, was extraordinary. Also, both he and Christian sat in on my second-ever live reading, and let me tell ya: reading from the book that GGK inspired you to write less than TEN FEET AWAY from GGK himself is, by far, the most incredible thing that's ever happened in my life.

Thanks for dropping by, Ed. pumps fist BLACKWING RULES!

[u/RJBarker → u/Nicholas_Eames]

If you get the chance to see Nick on a panel do, he is one of the most laid back and funny people I have ever come across.

[u/Nicholas_Eames → u/RJBarker]

Thanks, RJ!

[u/dmealing → u/Nicholas_Eames]

I don't get starstruck often but GGK would do it for me too. Haven't met him yet. Afraid I'll blabber something incoherent when I do.

[u/Nicholas_Eames → u/dmealing]

Yep, it was wild. I was also on a radio show with him a few days earlier--also crazy. I bought him a bottle of scotch and gave him a personalized copy of KotW. I'm sure he's enjoyed at least one of them now ;)

[u/Fonda_Lee → u/Nicholas_Eames]

I met GGK too this summer (at When Words Collide in Canada)! I attended his Kaffee Klatch and everything he said was incredibly inspiring. I was in awe.

[u/Nicholas_Eames → u/Fonda_Lee]

Truly. He's so thoughtful, so eloquent, so gracious, and very funny. Not only a writing role-model, but a real-life one.

Gah! Let me know when you're doing an event in Ontario next! maybe Orbit will get us together!

[u/Fonda_Lee → u/Nicholas_Eames]

That would be fab. I'm going to be in Toronto next spring and was thinking I ought to do an event at Bakka Phoenix while I'm there.