Anthony Camber

The first of 2025’s releases is called Unstable Orbits. You can preorder it now for Amazon Kindle (and Kindle apps) at special earlybird pricing:

It’s fashionable these days to give a flavour of the book in the title shown on Amazon. Here’s what I’ve settled on:

The heartfelt and hilarious tale of love, friendship and second chances

This is the one-sentence pitch:

A queer, geeky, heartfelt, hilarious tale of love, friendship and second chances, as Nate navigates A-levels, his spiralling emotions and the gravitational pull of new and old relationships.

And this is the full marketing copy:

Second chances. New relationships. Old wounds. Physics never prepared Nate for this.

Nate thought repeating Year 13 would let him ace his A-levels, dodge the drama, and avoid the mistakes (the draining, angry, Luke-shaped ones). But with familiar places full of unfamiliar faces, being back at school won’t be easy — especially with Nate’s head raging a constant battle between the laws of motion and emotion.

Then he meets Preston — and the attraction is more than gravity. Maybe things won’t be so bad after all. But school — and Luke’s unstoppable force of nature — have a way of throwing everything out of balance. Between Luke’s presence, Preston’s tangled past with another student, and his own spiralling anxiety, maybe Nate should plot a different trajectory? 

With exams looming, friendships shifting, and his mental health taking a nosedive, Nate must stabilise his own orbit — or risk his academic dreams and his chance to find real happiness.

Packed with sharp humour, heartfelt moments and a little light physics, Unstable Orbits is a queer, geeky coming-of-age story about love, friendship and second chances, perfect for fans of Alice Oseman, Simon James Green and Isaac Newton.

All of those are subject to change between now and release.

What is Unstable Orbits about?

Unstable Orbits is a contemporary young adult comedy drama with a bit of romance, in the mould of Simon James Green. It’s set in and around a school in the small and extremely fictional UK town of Ebeham (EE-buhm), located about an hour by bus west of the (real) Swindon.

The book’s narrator is 18-year-old Nathan (Nate) Ridge. At the start of the book in late August, he was expecting to be starting university soon — but instead he’s repeating Year 13 along with his boyfriend Luke Warwick, after they both crashed and burned in their A-levels a few months before. On the Saturday before school starts, in his part-time job at the Ebeham bookshop, Nate meets Preston. And then— well, you’ll have to read the book.

I’m incredibly proud of this one. It has plenty of humour but there’s a serious heart to it. It made me cry several times while I was writing it, and it still makes me cry reading it. I am officially a soppy old man.

I think that sounds fantastic and I would very much like to buy Unstable Orbits

Don’t wait until the book’s out: preorder today! The price will increase after release!

Why preorder?

The more preorders the book receives, the more likely Amazon will promote it, and the more likely I’ll be able to write more books.

What’s next?

There will be a paperback version, but Amazon doesn’t allow me to set up preorders for these. Once the final revisions are made to the text of Unstable Orbits it’ll take me a couple of hours to lay out and publish the paperback version: it’ll be ready when the ebook is released.

Next up: a big bucket of marketing, such as: the cover reveal; character intros; excerpts; ARCs; Instagram stories/reels; and more, I imagine.

Keep an eye on Threads, Bluesky and Instagram.

I’ll post the cover reveal here first: subscribe to the blog to see it before everyone else