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Welcome our latest Robot recruit, Caroline Lambe
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We’ve had a small reshuffle up here in our terrifyingly gun-bedecked orbital headquarters.
Please welcome our new Publicity Manager, CAROLINE LAMBE. She’s based full-time in the Nottingham office, and will greatly enhance our book promotion and marketing capabilities, from wrangling metadata and TIs for our new sales partners Faber, to arranging reviews and bookstore events. She joins us from Liberties Press in Dublin, and we’re sure you’ll make her welcome around these parts.
In other news, DARREN TURPIN has now completed his move from a full-time to a freelance role as our website manager. He’s still lurking in the background of everything that happens on this site, just… well, over there rather than right here in our midst. ROLAND BRISCOE, UK sales maven, has moved on to pastures new, and we wish him all the very best as he rejoins the world of humans. Right, back to engineering this whole total global domination malarkey…
Angry Robot announces new UK sales partners
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Hey gang! This might be more book industry-focussed than our usual robot-obsessed blog posts, but no less important…
In the UK, we’re delighted to announce that our books – AR, Strange Chemistry and Exhibit A alike – are going to be represented by that most beloved of publishers Faber, as part of their Faber Factory Plus sales team.
This will mean we have better coverage across the whole of the UK, as well as Ireland and into Europe too. We’ll have more reps on the ground telling your favourite local bookshop about our great novels, and increased coverage for libraries as well. As you may well have seen, to support this properly, we have also been expanding our publicity capabilities, recruiting a new, full-time Fiction Publicity Manager. They will work with authors and stores to promote the books across the country. We’ll have more news on that appointment shortly.
All round, this is a big deal for Angry Robot, Strange Chemistry and Exhibit A, and we should see its effects almost immediately. In the UK, authors will find there are more invitations to events and signings than before, and you’ll meet some of the reps at upcoming conventions like Eastercon too, as they are enthusiasts like us.
Ian West, head of the FF+ team, said: “We are particularly delighted to be working with Angry Robot and the Osprey group, who have consistently been ahead of the game and breaking new ground in the ways they bring writers and readers together.”
So there you go – we’re increasing our reach across the UK and Ireland, making it easier to buy our books in your local shop, month in, month out. Can’t be bad. Now for cake.
Now Hiring: Fiction Publicity Manager
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Angry Robot’s swathe of cool genre imprints is in need of a lively PUBLICITY MANAGER. The aim of this job is to work with our divine authors, our favourite bookshops, our lovely bloggers and the Robot Army, and our fab distributors who link this all together, to promote the hell out of our books.
Duties include arranging signings and store promotions, placing reviews and articles online and in print, blogging and attending events. You’ll also be making sure all the metadata that feeds all this activity is both correct and snappier than an alligator at lunchtime.
Don’t delay – the closing date is noon GMT on 25th March 2013. More details, including how to apply, after the jump:
Status Re-Boot for Angry Robot Lee Harris: ‘Senior Editor’ Level-Up Activated
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It was a dark day in the Angry Robot Fortress of Doom. The greatest robo-minds in the global organisation had gathered, with but one purpose:
“We need to talk about Lee.”
Silence. Grim, quite possibly foreboding silence.
“Er, why?”
“Well… he knows things. Lots of things. Things that, if brought into the harsh light of public scrutiny, could have massive and far-reaching consequences for our mission. We need to decide what to do about him.”
More silence. This time of a more ruminative, speculative kind.
“We could…”
“Yes?”
“…promote him?”
Silence again. But of the lightbulb-going-on variety.
“Hadn’t thought about that. Not a bad idea. Right then, stand-down the grinders, issue a public pronouncement on all channels. The Lee Harris Unit is hereby promoted to…”
“Senior Editor?”
“Yep, that sounds about right. Senior editor. Good idea. Make it so.”
“Please, no Trek clichés.”
“Sorry. Just get on with it, then. And put the kettle on, someone. I’m gasping for a brew.”
Silence once more, as the greatest robo-minds in the global organisation vacated the Chamber of Contemplation, to return to their own dreams and schemes of imminent and inevitable global domination.
True story.
{ There’s a slightly more news-y press release here, if you prefer a just-the-facts version for your blog or website. And you can hurl congratulations, envious abuse, or jokes about “senior moments” @LeeAHarris, as you see fit. }
Strange Chemistry and Exhibit A team up with AudioGO for Audiobook Goodness
Posted by: | CommentsWe’re pleased-as-punch to announce that, via our parent company Osprey Group, we’ve concluded a deal with to create audiobook editions of all our forthcoming Strange Chemistry and Exhibit A books.
Here’s the press release that we’ve just sent out to our chums in the bookish media – please feel free to copy & paste for your own blog or website if you’re an audiobook fan:
Leading audiobook producers AudioGO have signed up to create audio versions of titles from two of Osprey Group’s fiction division imprints: YA specialist Strange Chemistry and next year’s upcoming crime imprint, Exhibit A. The audiobooks will be produced in AudioGO’s specialist UK studios and will have worldwide digital distribution.
The first titles will be the debuts from the Strange Chemistry line: Blackwood by Gwenda Bond and Shift by Kim Curran, which will launch in the first week of September. Further titles will appear simultaneously with the release of physical editions from Strange Chemistry and, starting May 2013, Exhibit A.
Quotable Quotes
Jan Paterson, Publishing Director of AudioGO, said: “We are really excited by this new collaboration with Osprey Group. The digital revolution continues to deliver more and more sales of audiobooks each year, so this is a great opportunity for two independent publishing companies to collaborate to reach new markets.”
Marc Gascoigne, Managing Director of Osprey’s Angry Robot fiction division said: “Quite simply, AudioGO are damn good at what they do. We’re absolutely delighted to have them on board making audiobook editions of the books from our new imprints. Our mission has always been to have books available to our readers in all formats, worldwide, simultaneously – and AudioGO can help us deliver just that.”
Further Information
AudioGO (the home of BBC Audiobooks) publish an extensive range of drama, comedy and factual programmes from BBC Radio, in addition to abridged and unabridged recordings by best-selling authors read by the finest narrators. Most titles are available in both CD and download format.
Browse through the complete collection at www.audiogo.com.
A Warm Welcome to our Shiny New ‘Bot, Mike Underwood
Posted by: | CommentsOn Monday morning we’ll be welcoming a brand new addition to the Angry Robot team, in the form of our brand new North American Sales and Marketing Manager, Mike Underwood.
Mike will be working closely with John Tintera, Vice-President of Sales and Marketing for our parent company, Osprey Group. Mike’s remit will include the ongoing development of Angry Robot’s North American retailer partnerships with all the major store and online booksellers, plus a vast array of indie bookstores. He will, in short, be the go-to guy for all things Angry and Robotic in the North American market.
Mike is ideally suited to the task of getting Angry Robot books into the hand of the genre-fiction-loving masses of North America. has a background in bookselling and publisher sales and has previously worked for the Wybel Marketing Group, representing publishers such as Dark Horse Comics, Night Shade Books, Felony & Mayhem Press, and more to trade and wholesale accounts across the Midwest. Before that, Mike was a bookseller and has worked in the specialty game market. Furthermore, he holds a M.A. in Folklore Studies and when he isn’t selling books or writing his own, he studies Renaissance Martial Arts and dances Argentine tango.
But that’s not all: Mike is also, as of this month, a published genre author. His debut novel, Geekomancy is published by Pocket Star/S&S. Check it out, folks.
You can find Mike online at www.michaelrunderwood.com and do the 140-character thing in his general direction on Twitter @MikeRUnderwood.
Shiny New Angry Robot Mike Underwood said this about his imminent round of excruciatingly painful cyborgisation surgeries and interface control enhancement implantations: “I’m tremendously excited to be joining the Angry Robot team. Speculative fiction has always been my greatest passion as a bookseller and field rep, so I’m overjoyed at the chance to focus my energy and skills onto the world of genre fiction. Wait… there are surgeries?”
Angry Robot’s Managing Director Marc Gascoigne, once he’d finished cackling like a loon and shrieking “Yesss! Yesss! We have him now, our Precioussssss!”, added: “Mike impressed us with his depth of experience and knowledge of the North American bookselling market. His frankly rabid enthusiasm for the genres in which we publish, and a solid understanding of the Angry Robot mission, made him the ideal candidate. We look forward to assimilating him into our nefarious plans.”
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