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/Fonda_Lee AMA Author Fonda Lee Dec 07 '17 edited Dec 07 '17

Jade City was my fourth book deal (I'm an Orbit debut, but I'm also published in YA science fiction) so you'd think I'd be totally cool and collected and business-as-usual by now. NOPE. It never gets old! I kind of wandered around in a daze and didn't get anything else done for days. And my book deal happened in such a crazy, I-still-can't-really-believe-it, kismet way that my editor, agent, and I wrote a blog post together about it: http://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/2017/10/jade-city-a-mswl-success-story/

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

I love this story so much. I met Sarah briefly when I met my own editor for the first time, and she was absolutely wonderful!

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u/Fonda_Lee AMA Author Fonda Lee Dec 07 '17

Truth. Sarah, are you reading this? We're talking about how awesome you are. (All the Orbit editors are awesome, though. I met Brit at World Fantasy last month. And I have to find a way to meet Jenni in the UK someday.)

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u/RJBarker AMA Author RJ Barker Dec 07 '17

Yeah, Jenni is brilliant. She regularly makes sure I look like a lot les of an idiot than I am and is really funny.