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Audible Offers Sample Download

Click here to check out a sample audio download of Last Of The Winnebagos by Connie Willis.
Journey to a “world beyond words” with Audible Sci-Fi & Fantasy. Check out Audible for exclusive access to your authors and exclusive commentary. In addition, the new imprint, Audible Frontiers which features new and sometimes previously unavailable audiobooks [...]

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Audible Press Release

Audible Frontiers imprint launches with 25 exclusive audiobooks, including 10 Hugo Award winners from award-winning science fiction & fantasy authors.
NEW YORK – April 28, 2008 – The leading provider of premium digital spoken audio information and entertainment, Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary, today announced a major new science fiction and fantasy initiative that [...]

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Star Wars: Betrayal Free Download!

Del Rey is providing free downloads of Star Wars: Betrayal here:
http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/starwars/sw_legacy.html?ref=news&name=betrayaldownload
Choose from a pdf, Audiobook, Amazon Kindle, or Sony e-reader.
Hurry, offer expires at midnight, May 13, 2008!

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Stephen Hunt News

Press Release:
HarperColins sells US rights in Stephen Hunt’s fantasy novels to Tor Books in major two-book deal
Airlie Lawson and Tara Hiatt, Rights Directors at HarperCollins in London, have confirmed a major two-book deal with Claire Eddy of Tor Books in New York, to publish THE COURT OF THE AIR by Stephen Hunt, and his follow-up [...]

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Interview with Jeffrey Thomas and a Free Download!

Solaris Books just issued this press release:
SOLARIS ANNOUNCES FREE NOVEL DOWNLOAD -
In March 2008, SOLARIS will be releasing the much-anticipated new Punktown novel from Jeffrey Thomas. BLUE WAR is a science fiction thriller set on a colony world in another dimension, with blue jungles and exotic cultures. Private investigator Jeremy Stake is brought in by [...]

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Penguin Focuses on Roc & Ace

I just received an email from online marketing at Penguin Group. It seems the popular publisher’s blog (http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/blogs/index.php) is focusing on their science fiction/ fantasy imprints, Roc and Ace over the next four weeks. Check out the behind-the-scenes look at one of the best and most well-known scifi publishers in the biz!
UPDATE (thanks to Diana [...]

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