A Robot Love-In

No, Marco and I are not about to elope.

We’ve had so many good wishes via email, Facebook, text, Twitter, blog comments and strangers in the pub, and so many lovely things written about us all over the web since we announced we’re joining the Osprey family, we just wanted to say thanks, and to share a little bit of that love around.

At Dave Brendon’s Fantasy & SciFi Weblog Dave tell us:

with Marco and Lee still at the helm, there’s no way the quality and quantity will be changing. I say, Expect Even Bigger from Angry Robot!

Leading publishing industry analyst Eoin Purcell has some great things to say about both Osprey and Angry Robot, too:

I like Osprey. I think they are very smart operators and they know what they are doing and why. They have also built two very nice niche brands (Osprey and Shire) that are almost instantly recognizable in their markets, certainly by the kind of people who buy books and information in those spaces. So the news that they have bought the HarperCollins science-fiction and fantasy imprint Angry Robot is pretty exciting.

Steampunk author Adam Christopher writes:

This is good news. It will allow Angry Robot to grow and develop as a key, important independent genre publishing house. They’re established, they have a great brand, a terrific and incredibly diverse collection of authors and books, and a new set of owners who have promised business as usual and seem to be as excited about this (at least going by their Twitter feeds today!) as I am. I’m totally behind this move, and I’m quite happy to restate my position:

I trust Angry Robot Books to deliver the best genre storytelling around, and I would happily take all of their titles, on spec, as a standing order.

which is all well and good, except Adam then goes on to say that as we’re now independent publishers we should show up to work in skinny jeans and narrow ties. Tut-tut, Mr C - don’t you know that to be truly independent, you don’t follow what other independents do?