At Angry Robot we have always attempted to push boundaries with our fiction, and now we’re doing the same with both the content and delivery methods!
When Kaaron Warren told us she wanted to re-write her next book Walking the Tree as a 20,000 word novella from the point of view of one of the book’s [...]
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News: Angry Robot Announces a New Way of Telling Stories (with added exclusive content)
News: iPad and iBooks
I’m not sure if you know but I’m a very big Apple fan and have been since 2000 when I bought an iMac. Since then I’ve owned an iBook (the laptop in 2004) and have had two upgrades since then. I also love my iPhone. So I’m going to be biased and bit excited when [...]
New Books Announced for 2010: The Reapers are The Angels and White Tiger
So two press releases dropped into the mailbox over the last couple of days. The first I’ve been following on Twitter from reading a tweet along the lines of ‘Im reading a Zombie novel’ to reading a Tweet a couple of weeks later saying. ‘I’ve bought a zombie novel’ to the actual press release:
Tor UK [...]
New Feature: News from a 140 characters
In the interest of ch-ch-ch-ch-changes I’m trying something new, well I tried it before (twice), and try to bring out some of what I enjoy about Twitter to my blog. Here is an list of things that I’ve found via Twitter over the last few days. Please comment if found something you didn’t already know.
Article [...]
News: Amazon.com’s Kindle coming to the UK, kinda
Well that was a surprise this morning to wake up to the news (via @guardianbooks on twitter) that Amazon.com had announced that you’d know be able to use the Kindle (their version of an ebook reader) in more than 100 countries. But and there is a but you can only order directly from their US [...]
News: The Fry Effect and the power of Social Media?
A tweet from Stephen Fry appears to have sent a book about the afterlife from the murky depths of the book sales lists to the dazzling heights of number two. The online retailer Amazon yesterday reported a 6,000% rise in sales for Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman. It went from number [...]
News: Crime Thriller Awards 2009 Shortlists
London, 7th September, 2009 — The Crime Writers’ Association, in partnership with Specsavers, Cactus TV and ITV3, is pleased to announce the shortlists for the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2009, celebrating the crème de la crème of Crime and Thriller fiction, and including the three remaining CWA Daggers. This follows hard on the news [...]
News: Canongate to publish Philip Pullman’s retelling of the myth of Jesus
Now this is going to throw the cat amongst the pigeons.
Canongate Books has acquired world rights for an undisclosed sum in a remarkable new piece of fiction by Philip Pullman that challenges the Gospels and provides a compelling and plausible version of events. Entitled The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, the book will [...]
News and Comment: The Man Booker 2009
A total of 132 books, 11 of which were called in by the judges, were considered for the ‘Man Booker Dozen’ longlist of 13 books, which is:
A S Byatt The Children’s Book (Chatto)
J M Coetzee Summertime (Harvill Secker)
Adam Foulds The Quickening Maze (Jonathan Cape)
Sarah Hall How to Paint a Dead Man (Faber)
Samantha Harvey The Wilderness [...]
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Comment: More on the “International” Amazon.com Kindle
I had a feeling yesterday that this was going to be messy and I was right!
The messiest bit from mine and your points of view is that at the minute you’re going to be buy an American focused product which Amazon.com will kindly let you use in the UK, and other countries except Canada [...]