Media Alert: Rebecca Newton and the War of the Gods Rebecca and her family face their greatest challenge yet in this epic battle between good and evil. It all ends here! The Forces of Evil are poised to invade not only the Land of the White Sun, but also the Elysian Fields, home of the Gods – and now they have the power to throw human civilisation back into the Dark Ages. Princess Rebecca and her family face monumental battles in their attempts to defeat the massed forces of Evil, and the only way she can save mankind is by revealing herself to them. Her daughter, t he young Oracle Leylah, falls in love with Prince Alexander, grandson of Hercules, but soon things are going very wrong between them. The fate of the entire universe rests on confused Leylah’s shoulders, as she travels with Alexander to planet Earth to learn to control her powers. While the forces of Evil prepar e to invade from Tartarus , Zeus gather s the Gods and ancient Heroes to defend the Sacred...
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Media Alert: A Land Fit For Heroes Richard Morgan’s A LAND FIT FOR HEROES is out now on mobile with a sinister plot and shameless anti-heroes for those who are ready to embrace all that is dark and violent. Gollancz, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, with Liber Primus Games, indie developer and creator of gamebook series Narborion Saga, today released their joint project – an addictive multiplayer gamebook, the first of its kind based on world-class novelist and Crysis 2 and Syndicate writer Richard Morgan’s book trilogy A LAND FIT FOR HEROES. This fantasy title which represents the first book in the trilogy is now available on the Play Store for Android devices, App Store for iPhone, iPad, iTouch and Amazon for Kindle Fire. Steam for Windows PC will launch closer to Christmas in late December. “I am extremely delighted to announce that A LAND FIT FOR HEROES gamebook is finally out.” said the author Richard Morgan...
Media Alert: A NEW OPEN DOOR PERIOD AT ANGRY ROBOT The tides of publishing are changing rapidly and Angry Robot remains right at the forefront, surfing through the storms on an insulated circuit board. Another wave is coming down the pipe, this time of our own creation. That’s right, it’s time for another Open Door period! (Brief pause for cannons, confetti, random cheap fireworks…) As you may have noticed, we normally only accept submissions for new Angry Robot books from literary agents or people known to us. But for a couple of months every year we are delighted to open our doors wide and encourage proposals from one and all. In fact, several of our most notable novels over the years have come to us through our Open Door periods. If you know Angry Robot, you surely know Wesley Chu’s award-winning Tao series – The Lives of Tao, The Deaths of Tao, The Rebirths of Tao . Wesley’s debut came to us as an Open Door discovery, as did Philip K Dick Award-nominated...
Media Alert: Gollancz Festival 2015 Tickets to a Gollancz Festival 2015 day for aspiring writers go on sale Gollancz is delighted to share two substantial updates regarding The Gollancz Festival. Firstly, the full schedule of events, including the topics for discussion and selection of panellists, at the events in Manchester, 16 October, and London, 17 October, is now available at gollanczfestival.com. Secondly, Gollancz is launching an additional Waterstones Piccadilly-based event for at aspiring writers on Sunday 18 October, from 12 until 3pm! The Gollancz Festival for New Writers Tickets to The Gollancz Festival 2015 at London Piccadilly sold out in an astonishing three weeks. Subsequently Gollancz received a number of messages and tweets from disappointed genre fiction fans who missed out on purchasing tickets. Many of them are part of writing groups or identified themselves as aspiring authors. Inspired by their messages, Gollancz have decided t...
Media Alert: Solaris acquires Sherlock Holmes and the Servants Of Hell The world’s greatest detective crashes into Clive Barker’s infamous realm of horror in the crossover event of 2016 Solaris is excited to reveal the acquisition of Sherlock Holmes and the Servants Of Hell , an horrific adventure from bestselling author Paul Kane that pits the Great Detective against the Cenobites of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser mythos. About as far away from Benedict Cumberbatch as you can get, Kane’s story – which has remained shrouded in secrecy up to now – is undoubtedly Holmes’ most outlandish adventure to date, launching Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s finest creation headlong into Clive Barker’s famous Hellraising universe Solaris Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Oliver commented on the signing: “The world’s greatest detective meets horror’s greatest icons, what more could you want? Paul has been a significant voice on the horror scene for a while now and he’s steeped in Clive Barker’s hell-...
Media Alert: Gollancz fest line up Anouncement Official Press release: Gollancz Announces Programme for The Gollancz Festival 2015 Gollancz, the science-fiction and fantasy imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, is delighted to announce the programme of The Gollancz Festival 2015 taking place at Waterstones Manchester Deansgate, 16 October 2015, and Waterstones London Piccadilly, 17 October 2015. We are also thrilled to reveal partnerships with The Prince Charles Cinema and The Gamer’s Bus. The award-winning Gollancz Festival 2014 was the first of its kind – an integrated multi-platform, digital and physical one-day book event f eaturing live participation from almost 50 writers. Amongst other brilliant results, #GollanczFest reached nearly 9 million timelines on Twitter and has been watched nearly 18,000 times on You Tube. Tickets for the 2014 event at Waterstones Piccadilly sold out in three weeks. Even bigger and better, the Gollancz Festival 2015 wi...
Media Alert: Orbit Books launches Fantasy Writing Workshop with Karen Miller The international science fiction and fantasy publisher Orbit Books will be launching an online fantasy writing workshop this summer, hosted on OrbitBooks.net. It will be led by Karen Miller - a million-copy bestselling author who rose to fame with her debut The Innocent Mage, and whose most recent release is the critically acclaimed epic fantasy The Falcon Throne . The free week-long event, which starts on 27 th July 2015, will invite aspiring authors to take part in a communal online “write-along” challenge, during which they will each be encouraged to pen their own sample of a new fantasy novel. They will also be invited to submit this sample into a competition at the end of the week. Miller will be kicking off the writing workshop by setting a writing challenge for aspiring fantasy authors on 27 th July, and will be providing advice and words of encouragement throughout the week....
Media Alert: New Serialized Fiction from Fantasy Author Max Gladstone Bookburners —an addictive modern fantasy, in the vein of Supernatural and Buffy ―will be published by Serial Box, the newest medium for series drama. Serial Box is a new digital publishing start-up focused exclusively on original serialized fiction, delivering the episodic television model to the written word. Heralded as “Sheer enormous fun!” by Naomi Novik (Uprooted and the best-selling Temeraire series) Bookburners has also been called a “Beastly injection of 100-proof demon-battling fiction,” by Kieran Shea ( Koko Takes a Holiday ). With weekly episodes being created by Gladstone and his team, the Bookburners season will run for 16 weeks. N ominated twice for the John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award, Gladstone is the author of the Craft Sequence , tales of wizards in pinstriped suits and gods with shareholder's committees― Full Fathom Five , Three Parts Dead , Two Serpents Rise and...