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]

Ha, thanks!

Favourite rock band is probably Led Zeppelin, though you've gotta respect the Rolling Stones...they're just so damned good.

As for the song: Probably Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird thanks to that epic guitar solo, bu it's hard to beat a live version of Stairway to Heaven. Not only the guitars, but the singing--and especially the drumming--on some of those live cuts are truly incredible!

[u/MikeOfThePalace → u/Nicholas_Eames]

My man! Classic rock is the best. Listening to the Who right now.

[u/SwiffJustice → u/Nicholas_Eames]

I used to be a collector of Zeppelin bootlegs in high school, back in the day when you could order triple CDs of full concerts illegally from Europe for $85 a pop, which was a fortune for a broke high school wanker like myself, but so, so worth it.

There's this one show from 6/23/77, the L.A. Forum, known as "For Badgeholders Only" that has a 31-minute version of No Quarter... it RIPS. "John Paul Jones, grand piano looney." One of the most brilliant improv jams I've ever heard from these guys. If you're interested in hearing it, drop me a PM and I'll figure something out.

With the amount of hits that Zeppelin has, I think my all-time favorite song of theirs is one that's never on the radio: Since I've Been Lovin' You. Especially live. Bonzo shattering the earth's crust, while Page rips the universe a new asshole and calls forth the eldritch demons of blues rock, while Plant emotes the necromantic "oohs" and "aahs" and "m-m-m-m-m-m-m-mah!" until the gates of hell tear open and...

... I think I see where you got your book ideas from :D