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Old 09-21-2009, 08:34 PM   #1
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It could be that my marketplace awareness is getting better, but I hadn't heard of Orbit until I read The Last Wish. Now I'm seeing their publications more and more and I've liked the ones I've read. Anyone else noticed this or feel similar?

It looks like they've been around a while though only recently have they gone international.
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Old 09-21-2009, 10:11 PM   #2
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Orbit (a division of Hachette) are the biggest player in the UK fantasy marketplace and moved in to US publishing 4/5 years ago.
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Orbit has been around quite a while. Editor Devi Pillai is in attendance at many of the big SF/F cons.
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I had the same experience with Orbit. "Oh, I've never heard of them" promptly followed by "I think this is the seventh Orbit book I've read and loved this year."

Fun fact: Spiny Norman on these forumses is being published by them. Due January, I believe.
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Old 09-22-2009, 09:08 PM   #7
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They seem fairly (well, very) large in the UK. A fair proportion of my books are Orbit here!
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I really enjoyed Stan Nicholls Orcs omnibus. Good cover work too.
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Orbit rocks. :-) They publish everybody in the UK and they just moved here a few years ago. They're growing their stable. I am one of their ponies. Neigh. ;-)
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I really enjoyed Stan Nicholls Orcs omnibus. Good cover work too.
Great writer and a really nice bloke too. He came and talked to my writing group
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Great writer and a really nice bloke too. He came and talked to my writing group
Agreed on the first part. After I finishing the first book of omnibus I looked at my own writing, shivered, then muttered, "So far to go."
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