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PRESS RELEASE: Orbit Acquires International Bestselling Author Trudi Canavan’s New Trilogy!

Posted in Fantasy Literature on May 8th, 2011 by Admin

Global SF and Fantasy imprint Orbit has acquired a new trilogy by Sunday Times bestselling fantasy author Trudi Canavan. UK Editorial Director Anne Clarke acquired World rights from Arabella Stein, acting for Trudi Canavan’s primary agent Fran Bryson, in a major deal. The deal coincides with Trudi Canavan’s first major UK and European tour. The tour begins this week for publication of her latest novel The Rogue.

Millennium’s Rule is set in an entirely new magical world, with the first book in the trilogy due to be delivered in June 2013. It will be published by Orbit in 2014 in all good bookstores across the planet.

Trudi Canavan says: “I am delighted to continue working with Orbit who have been such a big part of the success of my books—and I am excited to be exploring this new, dynamic fantasy world which I can’t wait to share with my readers.”

Anne Clarke says: “I have long been a fan of Trudi’s wonderful books, and I was delighted and honoured to become her UK publisher when I joined Orbit at the start of this year. Trudi has a wonderful talent for creating emotionally compelling characters and weaving them into an exciting narrative set in a well drawn and wholly believable magical world. I and the rest of the Orbit team are thrilled at the prospect of publishing Trudi for many more years to come.”

Fran Bryson says “Trudi and Orbit are a terrific team. It’s great news that they will enter the stunning world of Millennium’s Rule together.”

Trudi Canavan’s UK tour for publication of The Rogue starts on May 5, 2011. She is available for interview. For all publicity queries please contact Rose Tremlett at rose.tremlett@littlebrown.co.uk.

Fantasy Book Critic

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Shorties (Pulp Reunion, Bestselling Politician Writers, and more)

Posted in Pop Literature on July 19th, 2009 by Admin

The Guardian reports that Pulp will reunite for live dates in 2011.

The Daily Beast lists the politicians who have sold the most books.

Shearwater has a new instrumental album, Shearwater Is Enron available at Bandcamp.

The band’s drummer Thor Harris shares his 21 rules of how to tour in a band or whatever.

Under the Radar interviews A.C. Newman of the New Pornographers.

Publishers Weekly examines the movement of bigger authors to smaller publishing houses.

The midlist is dying. That sentiment has been a mantra in publishing circles for years as agents, authors, and editors have decried that corporate publishing will no longer support the kind of author that was once an industry staple—the moderate success who was a consistent seller, if not a bestseller. With the “big six” demanding bigger sales numbers from all their authors, indie presses, which have long been the province of riskier, harder-to-market literary fiction, are finding that more commercial writers are showing up at their doors, as well as writers with serious accolades and lengthier track records.

i(heart)music has compiled its annual list of the hottest bands in Canada.

Financial Times reviews the new book, Saul Bellow: Letters.

At the Guardian, Tessa Hadley praises novels set in the present day.

NPR is streaming Stereolab’s new album, Not Music (out November 16th).

Kate Bernheimer talks to Weekend Edition about the modern fairy tale collection she edited, My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me.

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