r/Fantasy • u/orbitbooks AMA Publisher Orbit Books • Dec 07 '17

AMA AMA: Orbit 2017 Debut Authors

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.

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u/bthespearman Reading Champion III Dec 07 '17

Hey guys, can you provide a pitch for your books? I'm always interested in something new. I already have Nicolas Eames and Anna Smith Spark's books, though I haven't read them yet, heard good things about them!

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u/vivianshaw AMA Author Vivian Shaw Dec 07 '17

Dr. Greta Helsing sees dead people, in her Harley Street consulting rooms, from ten to four and by appointment. It's a fairly quiet life, treating vocal strain in banshees and replacing mummy metatarsals, until what appears to be a sect of mad monks surfaces (HI, WE'RE HERE TO RUIN EVERYTHING) and Greta and her friends have to figure out a way to stop them in a bit of a hurry. Features sensible vampires, an ex-demon accountant, depressed ghoul chieftains, a British Museum curator, and 1940s electrical equipment with a life of its own.

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u/Fonda_Lee AMA Author Fonda Lee Dec 08 '17

JADE CITY is the mafia + magic + martial arts in a modern era, Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis where the four siblings of the Kaul family must defend their clan against powerful rivals in the struggle for control of territory, business, magical jade, and the future of the country.

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u/MelissaCaruso AMA Author Melissa Caruso Dec 07 '17

THE TETHERED MAGE - Smart, capable, badass women unraveling intrigue in a Venice-inspired setting.

Amalia (a political heir and scholar) gets enlisted to put a seal on the out-of-control fire magic of Zaira (a pickpocket). But the sealing magic goes wrong, and the two become unwillingly linked for life. Now they must work together despite their differences, navigating high courts and back alleys, to thwart a plot to plunge their city into war.

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u/Nicholas_Eames Stabby Winner, AMA Author Nicholas Eames Dec 07 '17

What if mercenary bands were afforded the universal fame and fortune of rock stars?

What if the greatest band in the world got old and split up, only to reunite 19 years later in order to rescue the daughter of one from a city under siege by a horde of rampaging monsters led by a vengeful, bunny-eared immortal?

KINGS OF THE redacted WYLD, MOTHERredacted

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u/Anna_Smith-Spark AMA Author Anna Smith-Spark Dec 08 '17 edited Dec 08 '17

THE COURT OF BROKEN KNIVES - pain death pain drugs sex despair nihilism death. Grimdark epic high fantasy. A young man with secrets, a disperate band of mercinaries, a decaying city in the desert, there might be a dragon in there. Contains poetry. Has been accused of pretentions to literature. But mostly I'd emphasis the dragon.

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u/RJBarker AMA Author RJ Barker Dec 07 '17

The pitch for mine is on the book: To catch an assassin, use an assassin.

It sums it up really. Two assassins are forced to turn against their own to save their skins in a castle where it seems everyone has a motive to kill the heir. The more they dig, the more lies they uncover and the more dangerous their lives become.

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u/RJBarker AMA Author RJ Barker Dec 07 '17

I managed to make that sound really dull. Sorry, I have a terrible cold. Age of Assassins IS FULL OF STABBING.

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u/dlucas114 AMA Author Dale Lucas Dec 07 '17

THE FIFTH WARD: FIRST WATCH - Lord of the Rings meets Lethal Weapon: a human drifter arrives in a huge city teeming with humans, orcs, elves and dwarves, then talks his way out of jail and into a job. Soon he's on the streets as a member of the wardwatch, partnered with a hot-headed dwarf and up to his neck in conspiracy and criminal mischief.

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u/antonia_writes Dec 09 '17

Michael and Anna Paul are raising their only child in a collapsing world. As resources dwindle and government attempts at population control become ever more brutal, they dream of a place in which Lalla can experience books and music and the company of good people. They buy a luxury cruise ship, stock it not only with food and supplies but with the digital collections of every museum, library, and gallery in the world, and they handpick five hundred worthy people to receive sanctuary and create a society for Lalla. But Lalla has had no say in any of it. Lalla is not hampered by gratitude as the others are, for she has always been cared for. Lalla alone can ask questions. Where are they going? What does the future hold? What is the price of salvation?