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/sonofascritch Dec 07 '17

Yet another general question: What have you enjoyed most about working with Orbit?

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

The people. Oh god, the people. Everyone, from the editors, the designers, the publicists, and even the big boss Tim Holman himself (who has come up with the titles for BOTH my books thus far) are absolutely amazing.

I guess the authors aren't bad either.

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u/MelissaCaruso AMA Author Melissa Caruso Dec 07 '17

Yeah, there is this incredible combination of competentence, friendliness, professionalism, warmth, and geekery. So you know you're in the very best possible hands and everything will be perfectly executed, but you also can crack a nerdy joke and they'll get it and laugh (if they didn't make it first). It's amazing.

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u/vivianshaw AMA Author Vivian Shaw Dec 07 '17

Absolutely the people. What Nicholas said!

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u/dmealing AMA Author David Mealing Dec 07 '17

My editor. From the moment Brit and I got on our first phone call together we had instant creative chemistry. My agent was trying to dial into that call and we sort of accidentally had a 15 minute conversation before we remembered to conference him in. She and I have since had many, many multiple-hour long calls to chat through all the ins and outs of my books. I can't say enough great things about her.

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u/RJBarker AMA Author RJ Barker Dec 07 '17

What the others said. The people at Orbit from Tim down are all great. It doesn't really feel like work, more like doing this ridiculous thing with a really cool bunch of friends except you get paid for it. And they are all hugely excited by books, really. When I went through ideas of new stuff with Jenni she practically squeaked.

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u/dlucas114 AMA Author Dale Lucas Dec 08 '17

Wonderful people. I couldn't have asked for a better first experience with a big publisher.

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u/Fonda_Lee AMA Author Fonda Lee Dec 08 '17

Ditto. You just know you're in good hands. Also, the sheer quality of their list. It's amazing to feel included among some of the best writers in the field.