Angry Robot Books announced the signing of three new authors:
Maurice Broaddus sold Angry Robot a trilogy called The Knights of Breton Court. The series is “a modern retelling of the King Arthur cycle, set among the drug gangs of inner city America. Told through the eyes of King, as he tries to unite the crack dealers and do the right thing, it’s a stunning, edgy work, genuinely unlike anything we’ve ever read. Cheap movie analogy for you: Gilliam’s Fisher King meets The Wire.” The first book should be out in Summer 2010, with the next two following at six-month intervals. Broaddus spends his days as an environmental toxicologist, and is the author of two small-press novels and several shorter works.
Matt Forbeck sold them two novels. Amortals is “set just a few years in the future. After a cop is killed, his reincarnated clone must find out who did the deed. Double Indemnity meets Altered Carbon? Roxor!” Amortals is scheduled to appear this November. It will be followed next Spring by Vegas Knights. “It’s Oceans Eleven meets Harry Potter as three student wizards use Spring Break in an attempt to break a Vegas casino using magic. Only the casino has its own sorcerers, and they’re not going to hand over all the moolah to a bunch of twenty year-old wand-wavers.” Forbeck is a game designer and novel and comic author.
British author Mike Shevdon is a debut novelist. He sold Angry Robot two books: Sixty-One Nails and its sequel, The Road to Bedlam. The books “follow Niall Petersen, everyday guy, from a suspected heart attack on the London Underground, into the hidden world of the Feyre, an uncanny place of legend that lurks just beyond the surface of everyday life. The Untainted, the darkest of the Seven Courts, have made their play for power, and unless Niall can recreate the ritual of the Sixty-One Nails, their dark dominion will enslave all of the Feyre, and all of humankind too. A massive rollercoaster ride from a stunning new talent.” The first book is scheduled for publication in November.