tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86711380666992821512024-02-18T23:44:52.861-05:00BULL SPEC<i>Bull Spec</i> is a magazine of speculative fiction—roughly, science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, and a few other bits around the edges—published quarterly from Durham, North Carolina.montsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.comBlogger181125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-68403068425662030112012-08-10T12:26:00.002-04:002012-08-10T12:26:33.415-04:00Reminder: new website and blog.It's been a while since I reminded folks that this Blogspot-based blog has pretty much been effectively abandoned. Bull Spec has a "new" home on the web at <a href="http://bullspec.com/">http://bullspec.com</a>. Cheers!montsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-12437417594527490032012-04-08T20:22:00.000-04:002012-04-08T20:22:40.761-04:00Announcement: new website and blog.<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">While there's still some clutter about, and not everything is there that we'd fully like to be there: Bull Spec has a new Wordpress-based website and blog at <a href="http://bullspec.com/">bullspec.com</a>. We'll no longer be updating this old blog. So head over there and stay tuned: the (very late) April newsletter is coming, with lots of news, including the arrival of Bull Spec #7 on Sunday, April 15th at 5 pm at Durham's Sci-Fi Genre Comics & Games as part of the next </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.facebook.com/events/329597860431027/" href="http://www.facebook.com/events/329597860431027/" style="background-color: white; color: #1b8be0; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">NC Speculative Fiction Night</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">!</span>montsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-65855015790203492022012-03-12T12:35:00.000-04:002012-03-12T12:35:17.102-04:00No e-mail newsletter this month (March 2012).Well, as it's nearly the Ides of March and I haven't sent one out, just going to call it that there won't be an e-mail newsletter this month. Finally finished closing the tax books on 2011 which has been a big time sink, and now will find time to put the final touches on issue #7 and send it to the printers. There <b>will</b> be something fun going on in April, namely an honest to goodness issue launch party, but I don't want to plan it or announce it until I have a ship date from the printers. (Too many close calls recently, where I'm waiting at home on the afternoon of the event for the UPS truck to come up the hill...) Working on a few angles for that in terms of guests and turning it into an NC Speculative Fiction Night, but... too many kitchens, too few cooks for thinking on that today.montsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-1002265422233592322012-03-02T10:25:00.000-05:002012-03-02T10:54:48.524-05:00Heading to Stellarcon!Well, it's the first weekend in March, so it's time for <a href="http://www.stellarcon.com/">Stellarcon</a> in High Point! The guest of honor this year is bestselling fantasy novelist Patrick Rothfuss, and there's a great lineup of additional guests of honor and <a href="http://www.stellarcon.com/guests.html">other guest panelists</a>.<br />
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Including me! (Not pictured.) Yay! I'm only going for one day, Saturday, from about 9 AM to 6 PM (taking the train if anybody wants to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/306893319365798/">join me</a> for the day trip) but somehow, the awesome folks at Stellarcon found some last-minute room for me:<br />
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Hot on his heels is his former fleet, a force that has already devastated Earth once, and is poised to wipe humanity from existence forever, ready to do almost anything to deny Earth a chance. </blockquote>
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To the defenders of Earth he is an enigma—and potentially a Trojan horse. Yet after years of battling back from the brink of destruction, the U.S. space navy has the war-tested heroes to rise to the challenge Ricimer represents—and the danger that follows him—if only those in charge will listen. </blockquote>
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The players are in motion and the greatest confrontation this sector of the galaxy has ever witnessed is at hand. Now all depends on the courage of an honorable alien warrior and the intelligence and daring of his human allies.</blockquote>
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The book is also available in <a href="http://www.baenebooks.com/p-1539-guardian-of-night.aspx">e-book</a> directly from publisher Baen in a variety of formats, as well as in <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_332159923">a</a><span style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_8?asin=B00759YVPY&qid=1328625529&sr=1-8">udiobook</a>, narrated by </span><a class="adbl-link" href="http://www.audible.com/search/ref=sr_1_8_nsrch?searchNarrator=Victor+Bevine&qid=1328625529&sr=1-8" style="color: #155799; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Victor Bevine</a> (the same voice behind David Drake's Lt. Leary series) <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14px;">for</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14px;"> Audible Frontiers:</span></div>
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First, Maxey's <i><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11511696-greatshadow">Greatshadow</a></i>, which is out from <a href="http://www.solarisbooks.com/titles/title_details/greatshadow">Solaris Books</a> and begins a new series:<br />
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"<strong style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">Greatshadow</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"> is the primal dragon of fire, an elemental evil whose malign intelligence spies upon mankind through every candle flame, waiting to devour any careless victim he can claim. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">The Church of the Book has assembled a team of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"> </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">twelve battle-hardened adventurers</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">to slay the dragon once and for all. But tensions run high between the leaders of the team who view the mission as a holy duty and the super-powered mercenaries who add power to their ranks, who view the mission primarily as a chance to claim Greatshadow's vast treasure trove. If the warriors fail to slay the beast, will they doom mankind to death by fire?" <b>Note: </b>also available on <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/greatshadow-james-maxey/1100827105?ean=9781849973298&itm=1&usri=greatshadow">Nook</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Greatshadow-Dragon-Apocalypse-ebook/dp/B0073JLOP6/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328122399&sr=1-1">Kindle</a>. <b>Bonus:</b> an <a href="http://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/editorial-2264/An-Interview-with-James-Maxey">interview</a> at McNally Robinson. <b>Event:</b> Maxey is <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com/event/james-maxey-dragon-fantasy-greatshadow">reading</a> on Friday Feb 10th at Quail Ridge Books.</span><br />
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Second, Martin's <i><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11236353-the-dread">The Dread</a></i>, which continues her second Winter Kingdoms series as book 2 of her Fallen Kings cycle from <a href="http://www.orbitbooks.net/a-sample-from-the-dread-by-gail-z-martin/">Orbit Books</a>, after the four books of the Chronicles of the Necromancer from Solaris Books:<br />
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"<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">Still reeling from plague and civil war, the Winter Kingdoms face an invasion force from across the Northern Sea led my a dark spirit mage in the name of ancient, vanquished gods. Summoner-King Martris Drayke and an untested generation of new rulers must stand against an unholy alliance of shadowy invaders. To prevail, Tris must win the uncertain support of the Dread, spirit-beings that stand guard within the sacred barrows over an even more fearsome threat imprisoned within. In the balance lies not only the freedom of the Winter Kingdoms, but Tris’s life and the soul of his young son, whose untested magic might be the biggest spoil of war.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">The Dread is Book Two of The Fallen Kings Cycle, and it picks up the adventures of Tris, Jonmarc and the Winter Kingdoms gang immediately after the events in <i>The Sworn</i>." <b>Note:</b> also available in <a href="http://www.tantor.com/BookDetail.asp?Product=B0052_TheDread">audiobook</a> from Tantor Audio (<a href="http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B0071N6KI0&qid=1328122295&sr=1-1">Audible</a> link), and on <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-dread-gail-z-martin/1030399993?ean=9780316192361&itm=1&usri=the+dread+gail+martin">Nook</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dread-Fallen-Kings-Cycle-ebook/dp/B004RD855S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328122330&sr=8-1">Kindle</a>. <b>Event:</b> Martin has several <a href="http://www.orbitbooks.net/2012/01/31/february-events/">readings</a> coming up in the regional area.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Welcome to the February 2012 events newsletter from Bull Spec! I hope a lot of you made it out to celebrate new books from local authors JL Hilton, Natania Barron, and Cate Tiernan last month, not to mention <b>illogiCon</b> with Joe Haldeman, along with a visit from Tor debut author Marissa Meyer. January comes to a close by bringing author Drew Magary to town for his novel <i>The Postmortal</i>, with events at Chapel Hill's Flyleaf Books on January 31 and Durham's The Regulator Bookshop on February 1.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Some <b>NEW</b> events below: Orson Scott Card comes to Quail Ridge Books on Feb 7, Karen Joy Fowler comes to NCSU on Feb 15, a special Andrew Neal cover for issue #1 of <i>Adventure Time</i> for Chapel Hill Comics, and NC Comicon has a date in Durham in November. <b>Also: </b>a deadline of February 1 for signing up to be a giver for World Book Night 2012 in April. </span><b>Speaking of deadlines</b>, January 31 is the last date to register as a supporting member for WorldCon, with one of the privileges being able to nominate and vote for the Hugo Awards.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lastly... Wow. Issue #7 is <b>still</b> very <b>very</b> late. It really will be here "really soon now", and I'm very sorry to all concerned for the delay.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">-Sam</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">JANUARY 2012</b><br />
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<b>FEBRUARY 2012</b><br />
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1 (Wednesday), 7 pm: The Regulator Bookshop hosts Drew Magary for <i>The Postmortal</i>: "<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Drew Magary will read from and sign copies of his new novel </span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Postmortal</i><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, which imagines a world twenty minutes in the future wherein the cure for aging has been discovered. Magary explores the implications of such a discovery and the problems that may arise, including evil green people, euthanasia programs, a new religious cult. This story of a pre-apocalypse is a dark comedy that is by turns tragic and comic. Drew Magary is a blogger for </span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Deadspin</i><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">." Facebook event link: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/169936239780091/">https://www.facebook.com/events/169936239780091/</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">4 (Saturday), 10 am: The Orange County Library in Hillsborough hosts Hillsborough author James Maxey for a class on: "Where Do You Get Your Ideas? (And What Do You Do Once You Have One?)"</span><br />
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4 (Saturday), All Day: <b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carolina Games Summit at Wayne Community College in Goldsboro, NC: speakers, exhibitors, tournaments, and more.</span></b><br />
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8 (Wednesday), 6 pm: The Orange County Library hosts a panel discussion on "Where do you get your ideas?", moderated by James Maxey, with panelists John Claude Bemis (Nine Pound Hammer), <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A. J. Mayhew (The Dry Grass of August), </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ed & Janet Howle (The Long Road to Paris), and </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Natania Barron (Pilgrim of the Sky).</span><br />
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10 (Friday), 7:30 pm: Launch party for James Maxey's <i>Greatshadow</i> (<span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">the first book in a new fantasy series</span> from Solaris Books) at Quail Ridge Books: <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com/event/james-maxey-dragon-fantasy-greatshadow">http://www.quailridgebooks.com/event/james-maxey-dragon-fantasy-greatshadow</a> -- Facebook event link: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/261902680545846/">https://www.facebook.com/events/261902680545846/</a><br />
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12: Regional author new novel: J. M. McDermott's <i>When We Were Executioners</i>, book #2 in his Dogsland Trilogy from Night Shade Books after <i>Never Knew Another</i>, to be released: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12804203-when-we-were-executioners">http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12804203-when-we-were-executioners</a><br />
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<b>NEW: </b>15 (Wednesday), 7:30 pm: NCSU hosts <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Nebula Award-winning sf writer Karen Joy Fowler (author of Sarah Canary and the best-selling The Jane Austen Book Club) for a reading. The reading will probably be in the Thompson Theater on Dunn Avenue on the NCSU campus, where other recent readings have been. The reading is open to the general public and there is free parking in the parking deck next to the theater. More information and a confirmed location will be available closer to the event date.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><b>NEW: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">18 (Saturday), 4 to 7 pm: Chapel Hill Comics hosts the launch party for <i>Adventure Time #1</i>, based on the hit animated TV series, with an exclusive alternate cover drawn by Chapel Hill Comics's own Andrew Neal: </span><a href="http://www.chapelhillcomics.com/content/?p=1523">http://www.chapelhillcomics.com/content/?p=1523</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1: Regional author new novel: South Carolina author T. C. McCarthy's <i>Exogene</i>, book #2 in his The Subterrene War series after 2011's <i>Germline</i>, to be released by Orbit Books: </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11418025-exogene">http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11418025-exogene</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">27: Regional author new novel: Wilmington's David Macinnis Gill's </span><i style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">Invisible Sun</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">, sequel to his award-winning 2010 novel </span><i style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">Black Hole Sun, </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">to be published by Greenwillow Books.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">3: Local author new novel: Baen to publish Pittsboro author David Drake's newest novel in his Lt. Leary RCN series, <i>The Road of Danger</i>. More info: </span></span><a href="http://baen.com/order_isbn.asp?isbn=9781451635158">http://baen.com/order_isbn.asp?isbn=9781451635158</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">10: Ex-local author new novel: Tor Books to publish Mary Robinette Kowal's <i>Glamour in Glass</i>, sequel to her debut novel <i>Shades of Milk and Honey</i> which she launched at ReConstruction in Raleigh in August, 2010.</span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>NEW: </b>23: World Book Night 2012 -- sign up by February 1 to be a book giver, including several sf titles: </span><a href="http://www.us.worldbooknight.org/">http://www.us.worldbooknight.org/</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1: Local author new novel: Baen to publish Raleigh author Mark L. Van Name's newest novel in his Jon & Lobo series, <i>No Going Back. </i>More info: </span><a href="http://www.baen.com/order_isbn.asp?isbn=9781451638103">http://www.baen.com/order_isbn.asp?isbn=9781451638103</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">22: Local author new novel: Hillsborough's John Claude Bemis's </span><i style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12452491-the-prince-who-fell-from-the-sky">The Prince Who Fell From the Sky</a></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> to be published by Random House Books for Young Readers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">17: Regional author new novel: Tor to publish Greensboro author Orson Scott Card's (along with Aaron Johnson) </span><i style="background-color: white;">Earth Unaware: The First Formic War</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">31: Local author new novel: Solaris Books to publish Hillsborough author James Maxey's <i>Hush</i> -- continuing his new fantasy series which begins with <i>Greatshadow</i> in January (see above).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">1: Local editor new anthology: Raleigh author and anthologist John Kessel's latest anthology (co-edited with James Patrick Kelly) to be released: <a href="http://tachyonpublications.com/book/Digital_Rapture.html">Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology</a> from Tachyon Publications.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1: (Date TBD) Local author new novel: Raleigh authors Clay and Susan Griffith conclude their Vampire Empire series with book 3 (Title TBD) after 2010's <i>The Greyfriar </i>and 2011's <i>The Rift Walker</i>. From Pyr Books. More info: </span><a href="http://clayandsusangriffith.blogspot.com/">http://clayandsusangriffith.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>NEW: </b>17-18: NC Comicon at the Durham Convention Center: <a href="http://nccomicon.com/">http://nccomicon.com/</a></span><br />
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</div>montsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-76642892669857349362012-01-16T14:58:00.001-05:002012-01-16T14:58:09.015-05:00An apology to my contributors, readers, and advertisers on the lateness of issue #7.Well, there's really no hiding it, or "smoothing" it out this time. Issue #7 is no longer the "Winter 2011-12" issue; it's the "Spring 2012" issue. I want to offer (again) my apologies to my patient readers, my forgiving advertisers, and my contributors that their works, planned for 2011, are now coming in early 2012 instead. Additionally, an apology to the "2011 year in review" editors who essentially wasted their time considering these stories for 2011, some of which I also included in my yearly Pushcart Prize nominations, spots which should have gone to poems and essays and stories <i>actually</i> published in 2011. It is what it is. Issue #7 will be out as soon as we can finish it (which includes some rework on the cover; sorry JZ for yet another bother on that score) and we'll hope to have issue #8 out in May.<br />
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I thought I had learned my lesson with issue #4, which while it did come out in late (late!) December 2010, ended up creating a lot of confusion as the print copies didn't arrive until mid-January, for some reviewers late January. Apparently not. Well, we'll keep learning and keep trying, and thanks for sticking with us.<br />
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-Sammontsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-82879121819648603352012-01-13T10:52:00.000-05:002012-01-13T10:52:25.583-05:00Heading to illogicon, Jan 13-15!Well, it's time to pack up magazines and the crate that has become the traveling road show for "the year in local sf" and head to <a href="http://illogicon.com/">illogiCon</a>, this weekend (Friday through Sunday, Jan 13-15) in Raleigh. I don't have any panels today, but I'm moderating an "Ethics in SF" panel tomorrow (Saturday) with Joe Haldeman, John Kessel, Kij Johnson, and Gray Rinehart, and two panels on Sunday: one on the year's best in sf, the other on local authors. I think I'm ready. Congrats to Warren Buff and company on putting together <a href="http://www.illogicon.com/programming">programming</a> that ranges from the writerly (craft, publishing, career, etc.) to the readerly (readings, discussions) to other media (comics, films, games) to, well, all the rest of the craziness that is fandom, all the while keeping the con <b>very</b> affordable at $20 pre-registered, $30 at the door for the whole weekend, with single day registrations as well. I'm looking forward to seeing friends from far away (JM McDermott!) and further out in NC (Ada! Davey!) and an absolutely massive list of local writers, readers, fans, and friends. See you there?montsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-75886498721613728552012-01-13T10:31:00.000-05:002012-01-13T10:31:04.763-05:00Wake Forest author Michael Jasper is web serializing his novel A Sudden Outbreak of Magic!Starting with the <a href="http://michaeljasper.net/2012/01/13/a-sudden-outbreak-of-magic-prologue/">Prologue</a> today, Wake Forest author Michael Jasper (<i>Gunning for the Buddha</i>, <i>A Gathering of Doorways</i>, <i>The Wannoshay Cycle</i>, ...) is web serializing his novel <i>A Sudden Outbreak of Magic</i>:<br />
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Kelley and her twin brother Jeroan just moved to Dubuque, Iowa. Their parents uprooted them from their home in Chicago after learning that Jeroan had gotten mixed up with a gang. As the only black girl in her grade, Kelley is <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not</em> pleased about the move. </blockquote>
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</div>montsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-5158268308012862502012-01-05T16:43:00.002-05:002012-01-06T16:08:24.504-05:00Hugo etc. pandering, 2012 edition:First, <a href="http://bullspec.blogspot.com/2011/11/2011-local-and-regional-author-holiday.html">the holiday book guide</a> acts as a very good stand-in for repeating a lot of the book-related suggestions -- no, seriously, go there and look at the long list of books which were published by local and regional authors this year, and see if one or more of them doesn't remind you of one of your favorite reads this year, ranging from the <b>Best Novel </b>category (<i>The Rift Walker, Out of the Waters, Pilgrim of the Sky, The Lost Gate, Miserere, Never Knew Another, Briarpatch, Germline, The Sworn</i>, on and on...) or <b>Best Related Work</b> (here I might suggest <i>Journal of a UFO Investigator</i>, if it's not considered science fiction proper, or <i>How to Write Magical Words</i> or even <i>The Fiasco Companion</i>) or <b>Best Graphic Story</b> (<i>TURF</i> completed its mini-series last year, and there was the stand-alone <i>Laddertop</i>, as well as the first trade edition of the first several issues of <i>The Order of Dagonet</i>), along with checking out the editors and cover artists for those novels for the <b>Best Editor - Long Form</b> (David Hartwell for <i>Out of the Waters</i>, Lou Anders for <i>The Rift Walker</i>, and others) and <b>Best Artist - Professional</b> (such as Chris McGrath for <i>The Rift Walker</i> cover) categories.<br />
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In the <b>Best Editor - Short Form</b> category, Mark Van Name edited the urban fantasy anthology <i>The Wild Side</i>, and John Kessel (along with James Patrick Kelly, of course!) edited the anthology <i>Kafkaesque</i>. Additionally, Natania Barron and Jaym Gates edited the first <i>Crossed Genres</i> quarterly, which included Greenville author Ada Milenkovic Brown's execellent "Nadirah Sends Her Love". You can also see on that book guide the editors for some of the anthologies where local and regional authored <b>Short Stories</b> were published, such as Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (for <i>The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities</i>), Jonathan Strahan (for several anthologies which included local and regional authors), John Joseph Adams (for selecting Eric Gregory's "The Harrowers" for Lightspeed Magazine and its year one anthology) and Joe R. Lansdale, among others.<br />
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Second, some of the (not all, I'm sure I'm missing some here) outstanding fiction published by local and regional authors this year, <i>not already listed</i> on the holiday book guide, or available to peruse in the table of contents for Bull Spec <a href="http://www.bullspec.com/issue/5">issue #5</a> (Roger Williams's novelette "Mortal Passage" is not eligible, having been previously published online) and <a href="http://www.bullspec.com/issue/6">issue #6</a>:</div>
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<li>Greenville's Ada Milenkovic Brown, "Nadirah Sends Her Love", <i><a href="http://crossedgenres.com/archives/027-tragedy/nadirah-sends-her-love-by-ada-milenkovic-brown/">Crossed Genres</a></i></li>
<li>Asheville's Alexandra Duncan, "Rampion", <i>F&SF</i> (novella)</li>
<li>Jason Erik Lundberg, "Kopi Luwak", <i>Red Dot Irreal</i></li>
<li>James Maxey, <i>Burn Baby Burn</i> (novel)</li>
<li>Mur Lafferty, "1963: The Argument Against Louis Pasteur", <i>The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities</i></li>
<li>John Kessel, "Clean", <i>Asimov's </i>(novelette)</li>
<li>Mark L. Van Name,
<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #404040; font-family: 'Times New Roman', calibri, arial, helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">“The Long Dark Night of Diego Chan” in <i>The Wild Side </i>(novelette)</span></li>
<li>Richard Butner, "Through the Uprights", <i><a href="http://www.electricvelocipede.com/2011/12/through-the-uprights-by-richard-butner/">Electric Velocipede</a> </i>(very long, but still a short story)</li>
<li>Lewis Shiner, "A Box of Thunder", <i><a href="http://www.strangehorizons.com/2011/20110919/thunder-f.shtml">Strange Horizons</a></i></li>
<li>Kij Johnson: "Story Kit" in <i>Eclipse Four</i>; and "Bridging the Mist" in <i>Asimov's</i> (novella)</li>
<li>Gwendolyn Clare: "Perfect Lies" in <a href="http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clare_03_11/" style="font-style: italic;">Clarkesworld</a>; "A Claw from the Western Paradise" in <i>Triangulation: Last Contact</i>; "Ashes on the Water" in <i>Asimov's</i>; and "Iron Oxide Red" in <i>Daily Science Fiction</i></li>
<li>Dan Campbell, "<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #404040; font-family: 'Times New Roman', calibri, arial, helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Where Sea and Sky Kiss", <i><a href="http://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/fantasy/dan-campbell/where-sea-and-sky-kiss">Daily Science Fiction</a></i></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #404040; font-family: 'Times New Roman', calibri, arial, helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Ryan Jones, "Return to Earth", <i>Stupefying Stories</i></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #404040; font-family: 'Times New Roman', calibri, arial, helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Rich Matrunick: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: 'Times New Roman', calibri, arial, helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">“The Pale Farmer” in <a href="http://www.everydayfiction.com/the-pale-farmer-by-rich-matrunick/">Every Day Fiction, May 3rd, 2011</a>; </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: 'Times New Roman', calibri, arial, helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">“Stranded (with Pork Chop)”: <i><a href="http://www.electricspec.com/issues/volume-6-issue-3-august-31-2011/stranded-with-porkchop-by-rich-matrunick.asp">Electric Spec, Volume 6, Issue 3</a>; </i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: 'Times New Roman', calibri, arial, helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">“From Alexandra to Amberglow” in <i><a href="http://www.raygunrevival.com/from-alexandra-to-amberglow-rich-matrunick/">Ray Gun Revival, Volume 2, Issue 8</a>; </i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: 'Times New Roman', calibri, arial, helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">“Prophecy Negotiations” in <i><a href="http://www.spacesquid.com/free-scifi?did=6">Space Squid, Issue 10</a>; and </i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: 'Times New Roman', calibri, arial, helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">“Other Sister” in <i>Stupefying Stories</i></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: 'Times New Roman', calibri, arial, helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Joseph Giddings: "Lifestealer" in <i><a href="http://www.raygunrevival.com/lifestealer-joseph-giddings/">Ray Gun Revival</a></i>; and "Goliath" in <i><a href="http://thefringemagazine.blogspot.com/2011/08/fiction-goliath-by-joseph-giddings.html">The Fringe Magazine</a></i></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: 'Times New Roman', calibri, arial, helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Peter Wood, "Future Imperfect" in <i><a href="http://www.raygunrevival.com/future-imperfect-peter-wood/">Ray Gun Revival</a></i></span></li>
<li>M. David Blake, "When the Pupil is Ready", <i>The Drink Tank #300</i></li>
<li>Gina Massel-Castater, "<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">Careless of the Night", <i>The Wild Side</i></span></li>
<li>Eric Gregory, "The Harrowers", <i>Lightspeed Magazine</i></li>
<li>Natania Barron, "Pushing Paper in Hartleigh" in <i>Subversion</i></li>
<li>Gray Rinehart: "The Tower" in <i>Crossed Genres</i>; and <i style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1321133">Therapeutic Mathematics and The Physics of Curve Balls</a> </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">in <i>Analog</i></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">Stuart Jaffe, "Little Girl with Pink Ribbons", <i>In an Iron Cage: The Magic of Steampunk</i></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Erik Bundy, "The Turtle Wore Mascara", <i><a href="http://www.electricspec.com/issues/volume-6-issue-2-may-31-2011/the-turtle-wore-mascara-by-e-bundy.asp">Electric Spec</a></i></span></span></li>
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Next, a quick rundown for <b>The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer:</b> In their <b>second</b> year of eligibility: Local authors Monica Byrne, John Claude Bemis, Stephen Messer, and Gray Rinehart; and Bull Spec alumni David Steffen and Deborah Walker. In their <b>first</b> year of eligibility: Local authors M. David Blake, Teresa Frohock, Natania Barron, Mur Lafferty, Rebecca Gomez Farrell, Ada Milenkovic Brown, and TC McCarthy; and Bull Spec alumni Preston Grassmann.<br />
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Nearly lastly, all of the non-fiction contributors to Bull Spec, from Paul Kincaid to Richard Dansky and many others (see those tables of contents) are eligible in the <b>Fan Writer</b><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>category.<br />
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Lastly, Bull Spec is itself eligible in the <b>Semiprozine </b>category, along with many wonderful "not too big, but we pay you something" magazines.<br />
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(And if you are a local or regional writer or Bull Spec alumni and/or you know of something I missed, please post a comment! Thanks!)</div>montsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-25538770301537782692012-01-04T15:03:00.005-05:002012-01-20T17:04:55.912-05:00Bull Spec local events e-mailing list: January 2012<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Vol 2. No. 1, January 4, 2012:</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Welcome to the January 2012 events newsletter from Bull Spec! I hope a lot of you made it out to see Hillary Jordan, John Kessel, and Cassandra Clare last month, and there are a <b>ton</b> of new events, including one <b>tomorrow night </b>(JL Hilton at Tir Na Nog, Thursday) and another in <b>two days </b>(Marissa Meyer at Flylear Books, Friday) and several more in January, so look below and don't miss them. And don't forget mid-January's <b>illogiCon</b><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>which is bringing Joe Haldeman back to the Triangle, January 13-15!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lastly... Wow. Issue #7 is <b>still</b> very late. It will be here in PDF "really soon now", and I'm very sorry to all concerned for the delay. I don't think it's possible for print copies of issue 7 to make it here in time for illogiCon, which is very frustrating and is a real setback. On a more positive note, many of the Kickstarter rewards have been delivered, and if you're looking for your T-shirt or a pendant I have them and am working my way through the list.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;">6 (Friday), 7 pm to 8 pm: Chapel Hill's Flyleaf Books hosts Marissa Meyer for a reading and signing of her debut novel <i>Cinder</i>: "</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg." More info on the novel, and a prequel short story, here: </span><a href="http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/12/glitches">http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/12/glitches</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><b>NEW:</b> 11 (Wednesday), 12 pm: Local author James Maxey will be on WUNC's <i>The State of Things</i> to discuss his recent superhero novel <i>Burn Baby Burn</i> and forthcoming fantasy novel <i>Greatshadow</i>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13-15: New local SF convention </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><a href="http://www.illogicon.com/"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">illogiCon</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (January 13-15, 2012) in Raleigh with literary guest of honor </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~haldeman/"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joe Haldeman</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. More info: </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://illogicon.com/">http://illogicon.com/</a> -- Get registered and tell the programming committee what you want to see!</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">17: Regional author new novel: Greensboro's Orson Scott Card's newest novel, <i>Shadows in Flight</i>, to be published by Tor Books. More info: </span></span></span></span><a href="http://us.macmillan.com/book.aspx?isbn=9780765332004">http://us.macmillan.com/book.aspx?isbn=9780765332004</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><b>NEW: </b>28 (Saturday), </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">3 pm: B&N New Hope Commons hosts the book release party for local author Natania Barron's December 2011 debut novel <i>Pilgrim of the Sky</i>. "Steampunk attire optional!"</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b>NEW:</b> 28 (Saturday), 3 pm: Quail Ridge Books hosts Durham author Cate Tiernan for a reading and signing of her new YA novel <i>Darkness Falls</i>, Tiernan's</span></span> next book in her Immortal Beloved series.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;">31 (Tuesday), 7 pm to 8 pm: Chapel Hill's Flyleaf Books hosts Drew Magary for a reading and signing of his debut novel <i>The Postmortal</i> -- published by Penguin in August: "</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Imagine a near future where a cure for aging is discovered and-after much political and moral debate-made available to people worldwide. Immortality, however, comes with its own unique problems-including evil green people, government euthanasia programs, a disturbing new religious cult, and other horrors. Witty, eerie, and full of humanity,</span><i style="background-color: white;">The Postmortal</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> is an unforgettable thriller that envisions a pre-apocalyptic world so real that it is completely terrifying."</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">31:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Local author book release: Solaris Books to publish the first book in a new fantasy series from Hillsborough author James Maxey, which starts with </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Greatshadow</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span></span></span><a href="http://www.solarisbooks.com/titles/title_details/greatshadow">http://www.solarisbooks.com/titles/title_details/greatshadow</a> -- book #2, <i>Hush</i>, is due in July!</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">31: Regional author new novel: Charlotte's Gail Z. Martin's newest novel, <i>The Dread</i>, to be published by Orbit Books. Sequel to 2011's <i>The Sworn</i> and continuing her second series in her Chronicles of the Necromancer books. More info: </span><a href="http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/books_9780316192361.htm">http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/books_9780316192361.htm</a></span></div>
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<b>NEW:</b> 1 (Wednesday), 7 pm: The Regulator Bookshop hosts Drew Magary for <i>The Postmortal</i>: "<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Drew Magary will read from and sign copies of his new novel </span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Postmortal</i><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, which imagines a world twenty minutes in the future wherein the cure for aging has been discovered. Magary explores the implications of such a discovery and the problems that may arise, including evil green people, euthanasia programs, a new religious cult. This story of a pre-apocalypse is a dark comedy that is by turns tragic and comic. Drew Magary is a blogger for </span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Deadspin</i><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>NEW: </b></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">4 (Saturday), 10 am: The Orange County Library in Hillsborough hosts Hillsborough author James Maxey for a class on: "Where Do You Get Your Ideas? (And What Do You Do Once You Have One?)"</span><br />
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<b>NEW: </b>4 (Saturday), All Day: <b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carolina Games Summit at Wayne Community College in Goldsboro, NC: speakers, exhibitors, tournaments, and more.</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>NEW-NEW:</b> 7 (Tuesday), 7:30 pm: Quail Ridge Books hosts Greensboro author Orson Scott Card for a reading and signing of his new "Ender's Shadow" novel, <i>Shadows in Flight</i>.</span></span><br />
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<b>NEW:</b> 8 (Wednesday), 6 pm: The Orange County Library hosts a panel discussion on "Where do you get your ideas?", moderated by James Maxey, with panelists John Claude Bemis (Nine Pound Hammer), <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A. J. Mayhew (The Dry Grass of August), </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ed & Janet Howle (The Long Road to Paris), and </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Natania Barron (Pilgrim of the Sky).</span><br />
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<b>NEW: </b>10 (Friday), 7:30 pm: Launch party for James Maxey's <i>Greatshadow</i> (see above for book info) at Quail Ridge Books: <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com/event/james-maxey-dragon-fantasy-greatshadow">http://www.quailridgebooks.com/event/james-maxey-dragon-fantasy-greatshadow</a><br />
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12: Regional author new novel: J. M. McDermott's <i>When We Were Executioners</i>, book #2 in his Dogsland Trilogy from Night Shade Books after <i>Never Knew Another</i>, to be released: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12804203-when-we-were-executioners">http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12804203-when-we-were-executioners</a><br />
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<b>NEW-NEW: </b>15 (Wednesday), 7:30 pm: NCSU hosts <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Nebula Award-winning sf writer Karen Joy Fowler (author of Sarah Canary and the best-selling The Jane Austen Book Club) for a reading. The reading will probably be in the Thompson Theater on Dunn Avenue on the NCSU campus, where other recent readings have been. The reading is open to the general public and there is free parking in the parking deck next to the theater. More information and a confirmed location will be available closer to the event date.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1: Regional author new novel: South Carolina author T. C. McCarthy's <i>Exogene</i>, book #2 in his The Subterrene War series after 2011's <i>Germline</i>, to be released by Orbit Books: </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11418025-exogene">http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11418025-exogene</a><br />
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1: Regional author new novel: J. M. McDermott's <i>Maze</i> to be published by Apex Books: <a href="http://jmmcdermott.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/welcome-to-the-maze-maze-is-coming-in-march-2012/">http://jmmcdermott.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/welcome-to-the-maze-maze-is-coming-in-march-2012/</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">27: Regional author new novel: Wilmington's David Macinnis Gill's </span><i style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">Invisible Sun</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">, sequel to his award-winning 2010 novel </span><i style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">Black Hole Sun, </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">to be published by Greenwillow Books.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">3: Local author new novel: Baen to publish Pittsboro author David Drake's newest novel in his Lt. Leary RCN series, <i>The Road of Danger</i>. More info: </span></span><a href="http://baen.com/order_isbn.asp?isbn=9781451635158">http://baen.com/order_isbn.asp?isbn=9781451635158</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">10: Ex-local author new novel: Tor Books to publish Mary Robinette Kowal's <i>Glamour in Glass</i>, sequel to her debut novel <i>Shades of Milk and Honey</i> which she launched at ReConstruction in Raleigh in August, 2010.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1: Local author new novel: Baen to publish Raleigh author Mark L. Van Name's newest novel in his Jon & Lobo series, <i>No Going Back. </i>More info: </span><a href="http://www.baen.com/order_isbn.asp?isbn=9781451638103">http://www.baen.com/order_isbn.asp?isbn=9781451638103</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">22: Local author new novel: Hillsborough's John Claude Bemis's </span><i style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12452491-the-prince-who-fell-from-the-sky">The Prince Who Fell From the Sky</a></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> to be published by Random House Books for Young Readers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">17: Regional author new novel: Tor to publish Greensboro author Orson Scott Card's (along with Aaron Johnson) </span><i style="background-color: white;">Earth Unaware: The First Formic War</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">31: Local author new novel: Solaris Books to publish Hillsborough author James Maxey's <i>Hush</i> -- continuing his new fantasy series which begins with <i>Greatshadow</i> in January (see above).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">1: Local editor new anthology: Raleigh author and anthologist John Kessel's latest anthology (co-edited with James Patrick Kelly) to be released: <a href="http://tachyonpublications.com/book/Digital_Rapture.html">Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology</a> from Tachyon Publications.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">14: Local author new collection: Raleigh author Kij Johnson's fiction collection <i>At the Mouth of the River of Bees</i> to be published by Small Beer Press.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1: (Date TBD) Local author new novel: Raleigh authors Clay and Susan Griffith conclude their Vampire Empire series with book 3 (Title TBD) after 2010's <i>The Greyfriar </i>and 2011's <i>The Rift Walker</i>. From Pyr Books. More info: </span><a href="http://clayandsusangriffith.blogspot.com/">http://clayandsusangriffith.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>NEW-NEW: </b>17-18: NC Comicon at the Durham Convention Center: <a href="http://nccomicon.com/">http://nccomicon.com/</a></span><br />
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</div>montsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-85947734566303756652012-01-03T11:02:00.000-05:002012-01-03T11:03:58.508-05:00Regional author book release: Faith Hunter's Raven Cursed (Jane Yellowrock, Book 4)<a href="http://www.faithhunter.net/">Faith Hunter</a>'s <i><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10417355-raven-cursed">Raven Cursed</a></i> is out today, the fourth book in her Jane Yellowrock series of novels:<br />
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A regional author with a regionally-set book? Indeed:<br />
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The vampires of Asheville, North Carolina, want to establish their own clan, but since they owe loyalty to the Master Vampire of New Orleans they must work out the terms with him. To come up with an equitable solution, he sends an envoy with the best bodyguard blood money can buy: Jane Yellowrock. </blockquote>
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But when a group of local campers are attacked by something fanged, Jane goes from escort to investigator. Unless she wants to face a very angry mast vampire, she will have to work overtime to find the killer. It's a good thing she's worth every penny. </blockquote>
Out as a mass market paperback original from Roc, the book is also on various <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/7JgC80Abcv8C">e-book</a> platforms as well as in digital <a href="http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_6?asin=B006OCV7L4&qid=1325606607&sr=1-6">audiobook</a>:<br />
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<span class="adbl-label" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-right: 3px; text-align: left;">Narrated by</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"> </span><span class="adbl-prod-author" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 3px; text-align: left;"><a class="adbl-link" href="http://www.audible.com/search/ref=pd_narr_1?searchNarrator=Khristine+Hvam" style="color: #155799; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Khristine Hvam</a> for </span><a class="adbl-link" href="http://www.audible.com/search/ref=pd_pblshr_lnk?searchProvider=Audible%2BFrontiers" id="PublisherSearchLink" style="background-color: white; color: #155799; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-align: left;">Audible Frontiers</a>, the audiobook runs a bit over 15 hours.montsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-82366348590861187482012-01-02T15:48:00.001-05:002012-01-03T12:20:43.387-05:00Local author release day: Stellarnet Rebel by J. L. Hilton and Darkness Falls by Cate Tiernan<span style="font-family: inherit;">Congratulations are due to local author J.L. Hilton, whose debut novel, <i><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13092986-stellarnet-rebel">Stellarnet Rebel</a></i>, is out today from Carina Press!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Welcome to Asteria, a corporate-owned, deep-space colony populated with refugees, criminals and obsessive online gamers. Genny O'Riordan has shifted in from Earth determined to find a story that will break her blog into the Stellarnet Top 100, and even better - expose the degradation of the colony's denizens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Duin is an alien - a Glin - a hero of a past revolution against the Glin royal family, yet branded a terrorist. Duin speaks every day in the Asteria market, hoping to spur humans to aid his home world, which has been overtaken by the evil, buglike Tikati.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When Genny and Duin meet, what begins with a blog post becomes a dangerous web of passion and politics as they struggle to survive not only a war but the darker side of humanity...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In addition to being available on </span><a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/Stellarnet_Rebel.html?id=Hl0dE2WnxdQC" style="font-family: inherit;">Google eBooks</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and therefore at our local IndieBound stores (here's direct links for </span><a href="http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/google-ebooks/stellarnet-rebel" style="font-family: inherit;">The Regulator Bookshop</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com/google-ebooks/stellarnet-rebel" style="font-family: inherit;">Quail Ridge Books</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="http://www.flyleafbooks.com/google-ebooks/stellarnet-rebel" style="font-family: inherit;">Flyleaf Books</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, and more) it's also on </span><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stellarnet-rebel-jl-hilton/1107412447?ean=9781426892950&itm=1&usri=stellarnet+rebel" style="font-family: inherit;">Nook</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="http://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/j-l-hilton/stellarnet-rebel/_/R-400000000000000550627" style="font-family: inherit;">Sony</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, Apple iBookstore, and on the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stellarnet-Rebel-ebook/dp/B00699QQ36/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325538145&sr=8-1">Kindle US</a> (and Kindle UK) -- I don't see it on Kobo, anybody find it there? -- along with being available </span><a href="http://ebooks.carinapress.com/FEBA2A48-17F1-4996-999E-71F982201BD2/10/134/en/ContentDetails.htm?ID=EEB9C8D8-460B-424C-87B2-BCBE0A72EA2F" style="font-family: inherit;">directly</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> from the publisher, where you can find an excerpt and more information as well. And the book has a <a href="http://www.stellarnetrebel.com/">website</a> of its own, with even more info.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And in addition to that, it's also out today in
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">But wait! There's another local author book out today, that being <i><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7977037-darkness-falls">Darkness Falls</a></i> by Durham's Cate Tiernan, the second in her <i>Immortal Beloved</i> series which started in 2010:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">These are the first of many, many local author releases this year, so don't wait! Pick your bookstore/audiobookstore and pick up your copies!</span>montsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-31840557163655489812011-12-26T00:07:00.000-05:002011-12-28T12:40:54.283-05:00It's beginning to look a lot like an issue.Same as last year's year-end issue, it looks like a very late December (say... 30? 31?) publication date for issue #7. About two months later than I'd have liked, but it's been worth the wait. Here are the cut-and-paste mostly unformatted contents:<br />
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.6821659195702523"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gearaffes </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Angi Shearstone</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Gearaffe Who Didn’t Tick</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> D. K. Thompson illustrated by Angi Shearstone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Fish Eyes </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Natania Barron illustrated by Brigid Ashwood</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Complications of the Flesh </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jason Erik Lundberg illustrated by Jason Strutz</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inseperables’ War </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stephanie Ricker illustrated by Jason Strutz</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Dreams Wake</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Jason K. Chapman illustrated by Indrapramit Das</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friday Nite at the A&W </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">J. P. Trostle</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">illustrated by Gabriel Dunston</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Poetry</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Letting Go</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Damon Shaw illustrated by Gabriel Dunston</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Fall Queen</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Alexandra Seidel; </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One Hundred Years in the Wood </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Daniel A. Rabuzzi; </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">increments </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lemuel harik; </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Fembot’s Quantum Love </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deborah Walker; </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Night Patrol </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Athena Andreadis; </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laurels </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mari Ness</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Into the Hinterlands</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> David Drake and John Lambshead = Interview by Jeremy L. C. Jones; Essays by Toni Weisskopf, Mark L. Van Name, and John Lambshead</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Children of the Sky </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vernor Vinge = Review and Interview by Paul Kincaid</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Master Trilogy </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">C. S. Friedman = Review and Interview by Dan Campbell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Circle Tide</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Rebecca K. Rowe = Review and Interview by C. D. Covington</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panverse Three</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Dario Ciriello = Review and Interview by Rich Horton</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Never Knew Another</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> J. M. McDermott = Essay by John H. Stevens</span><br />
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Whew.montsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-77738021602167787442011-12-09T00:18:00.001-05:002011-12-09T00:21:07.959-05:00Closed to fiction submissions until (at least) Friday, January 13If you e-mail a submission to submissions@bullspec.com effective now, you'll get the following auto reply:<br />
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Thank you for sending a story to Bull Spec, but we are currently closed
to fiction submissions, as of 1 AM EST, Friday December 9, 2011. We may
not have updated the website or notified Duotrope or Ralan's, etc. but
as we need to focus on reading and responding to the stories we have, we
are returning this one unread. We hope to re-open to fiction
submissions on Friday, January 13, 2012, but may remain closed longer
depending on our reading progress. Thanks again for considering Bull
Spec with a story, and we hope to hear from you again in future. </blockquote>
<blockquote>
If this is a query and it was erroneously detected as a story
submission (for example, if it included an attachment) please e-mail <a href="mailto:submissions@bullspec.com" target="_blank">submissions@bullspec.com</a> without an attachment with your query; if all else fails, please contact <a href="mailto:sam@bullspec.com" target="_blank">sam@bullspec.com</a> directly and I'll sort things out. </blockquote>
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Sincerely, </blockquote>
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Samuel Montgomery-Blinn, Publisher<br />Natania Barron and Eric Gregory, Fiction Editors<br />Sarah Rogers, Associate Fiction Editor<br />Bull Spec</blockquote>
Whew! We have a lot of reading to do over the next month, and I can't thank Sarah enough for her coming aboard as one of our first readers. I also can't thank all of the writers enough for all the submissions we get to settle in and read -- I'm looking forward to it.montsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-54564607763126240792011-12-05T15:35:00.000-05:002011-12-31T08:12:56.160-05:00Bull Spec local events e-mailing list: December 2011<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Vol 1. No. 7, December 5, 2011:</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Welcome to the December events newsletter from Bull Spec! I hope a lot of you made it out to see L.E. Modesitt, Jr. and Mary Doria Russell last month, and there are a <b>ton</b> of new events, including one <b>tonight </b>and several in early January, so look below and don't miss them. And there are several upcoming events to remind you of as well, from this Wednesday's John Kessel "Kafkaesque" event, to mid-January's <b>illogiCon</b><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>which is bringing Joe Haldeman back to the Triangle.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile: <b>Books! Books! Books!</b> In your holiday shopping for yourself and friends and family, don't neglect to check out the absolutely massive list of books by local and regional authors which were published just this year: <a href="http://bullspec.blogspot.com/2011/11/2011-local-and-regional-author-holiday.html">http://bullspec.blogspot.com/2011/11/2011-local-and-regional-author-holiday.html</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Lastly... Wow. Issue #7 is late. It will be here before the end of the year, and I'm very sorry to all concerned for the delay. Also: Kickstarter rewards are finally coming in, to get out to all of you who so generously sponsored Year 3 as soon as I can.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1: Local author new edition : Wake Forest's Michael Jasper's 2006 novel <i>Heart's Revenge</i> is now available in e-book from his own UnWrecked Press. More info: </span><a href="http://michaeljasper.net/novels/hearts-revenge/">http://michaeljasper.net/novels/hearts-revenge/</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>NEW: </b>5 (Monday -- TONIGHT!) at 7 pm: Chapel Hill's Flyleaf Books hosts Hillary Jordan for a reading and signing of her near-future dystopian sf novel <i>When She Woke</i> -- a revisiting of the themes of <i>The Scarlet Letter</i> which sees convicted felons modified to have their entire skin color changed to match their crimes: red for murder, etc. More info: <a href="http://flyleafbooks.com/event/hillary-mantel-reads-signs-her-new-novel-when-she-woke">http://flyleafbooks.com/event/hillary-mantel-reads-signs-her-new-novel-when-she-woke</a> -- and a Facebook event link here: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/318696298159235/">http://www.facebook.com/events/318696298159235/</a></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">7 (Wednesday) at 7:30 pm: Quail Ridge Books: John Kessel and Ruth Gross for "An Evening with Franz Kafka and Friends", including Kessel's newest anthology, <i>Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka -- </i></span><a href="http://tachyonpublications.com/book/Kafkaesque.html">http://tachyonpublications.com/book/Kafkaesque.html</a> -- and a Facebook event link here: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/246822225374328/">http://www.facebook.com/events/246822225374328/</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">9 (Friday) at 7:00 pm: Quail Ridge Books: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">Cassandra Clare brings her latest, <em><strong>Clockwork Prince</strong></em>. In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting.<em><strong>Clockwork Prince</strong></em> is the sequel to <em><strong>Clockwork Angel</strong>,</em> and part of the<em>Infernal Devices </em>trilogy. For ages 12 and up. Cassandra Clare is best known for her hugely popular<em> Mortal Instruments </em>series. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">SIGNING LINE TICKET EVENT - receive a signing line ticket with the purchase of any of Cassandra Clare's books. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">More info: </span><a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com/event/cassandra-clare-ya-novel-clockwork-prince">http://www.quailridgebooks.com/event/cassandra-clare-ya-novel-clockwork-prince</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13: Local author new novel: Natania Barron, </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pilgrim of the Sky</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from Candlemark & Gleam. "A novel that might be best described as mythpunk. With elements of fantasy, science fiction, Romantic poetry, steampunk, and multiverse theory, well, it isn’t exactly the sort of book that finds a comfortable little niche to sit in." More info: </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://pilgrimofthesky.com/" style="text-decoration: underline;">http://pilgrimofthesky.com/</a></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><b>NEW-NEW: </b>17 (Saturday), 4 pm to 7 pm: Chapel Hill Comics hosts the opening reception for their Kids' Art Show -- "As seen on Wired.com's Geek Dad!" at: </span></span></span><a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/12/north-carolina-kids-art-exhibit/">http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/12/north-carolina-kids-art-exhibit/</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2: Local author new novel: </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JL Hilton: </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stellarnet Rebel</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from Carina Press: "A science fiction romantic thriller." More info including an excerpt: </span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.stellarnetrebel.com/">http://www.stellarnetrebel.com/</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">2: Local author new novel: Durham's Cate Tiernan's next book in her Immortal Beloved series, <i>Darkness Falls</i>, to be published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3: Local author new edition: The David Drake onmibus </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Voyage Across the Stars</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> collects his </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hammer’s Slammers </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">novels </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cross the Stars</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Voyage</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. From Baen. More info: </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.baen.com/order_isbn.asp?isbn=9781451637717">http://www.baen.com/order_isbn.asp?isbn=9781451637717</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><b>NEW:</b> 5 (Thursday), 7 pm to 9 pm: Release party for local author JL Hilton's <i>Stellarnet Rebel</i> (see above) at Raleigh's Tir Na Nog.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><b>NEW:</b> 6 (Friday), 7 pm to 8 pm: Chapel Hill's Flyleaf Books hosts Marissa Meyer for a reading and signing of her debut novel <i>Cinder</i>: "</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg." More info on the novel, and a prequel short story, here: </span><a href="http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/12/glitches">http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/12/glitches</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">17: Regional author new novel: Greensboro's Orson Scott Card's newest novel, <i>Shadows in Flight</i>, to be published by Tor Books. More info: </span></span></span></span><a href="http://us.macmillan.com/book.aspx?isbn=9780765332004">http://us.macmillan.com/book.aspx?isbn=9780765332004</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><b>NEW-NEW: </b>28 (Saturday), </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">3 pm: B&N New Hope Commons hosts the book release party for local author Natania Barron's December 2011 debut novel <i>Pilgrim of the Sky</i> (see above). "Steampunk attire optional!"</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b>NEW-NEW:</b> 28 (Saturday), 3 pm: Quail Ridge Books hosts Durham author Cate Tiernan for a reading and signing of her new YA novel <i>Darkness Falls</i> (see above).</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">31: Regional author new novel: Charlotte's Gail Z. Martin's newest novel, <i>The Dread</i>, to be published by Orbit Books. Sequel to 2011's <i>The Sworn</i> and continuing her second series in her Chronicles of the Necromancer books. More info: </span><a href="http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/books_9780316192361.htm">http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/books_9780316192361.htm</a></span></div>
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<b>NEW-NEW: </b>10 (Friday), 7:30 pm: Launch party for James Maxey's <i>Greatshadow</i> (see above for book info) at Quail Ridge Books: <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com/event/james-maxey-dragon-fantasy-greatshadow">http://www.quailridgebooks.com/event/james-maxey-dragon-fantasy-greatshadow</a><br />
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12: Regional author new novel: J. M. McDermott's <i>When We Were Executioners</i>, book #2 in his Dogsland Trilogy from Night Shade Books after <i>Never Knew Another</i>, to be released: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12804203-when-we-were-executioners">http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12804203-when-we-were-executioners</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1: Regional author new novel: South Carolina author T. C. McCarthy's <i>Exogene</i>, book #2 in his The Subterrene War series after 2011's <i>Germline</i>, to be released by Orbit Books: </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11418025-exogene">http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11418025-exogene</a><br />
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1: Regional author new novel: J. M. McDermott's <i>Maze</i> to be published by Apex Books: <a href="http://jmmcdermott.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/welcome-to-the-maze-maze-is-coming-in-march-2012/">http://jmmcdermott.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/welcome-to-the-maze-maze-is-coming-in-march-2012/</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">27: Regional author new novel: Wilmington's David Macinnis Gill's </span><i style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">Invisible Sun</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">, sequel to his award-winning 2010 novel </span><i style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">Black Hole Sun, </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">to be published by Greenwillow Books.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">3: Local author new novel: Baen to publish Pittsboro author David Drake's newest novel in his Lt. Leary RCN series, <i>The Road of Danger</i>. More info: </span></span><a href="http://baen.com/order_isbn.asp?isbn=9781451635158">http://baen.com/order_isbn.asp?isbn=9781451635158</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">10: Ex-local author new novel: Tor Books to publish Mary Robinette Kowal's <i>Glamour in Glass</i>, sequel to her debut novel <i>Shades of Milk and Honey</i> which she launched at ReConstruction in Raleigh in August, 2010. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1: Local author new novel: Baen to publish Raleigh author Mark L. Van Name's newest novel in his Jon & Lobo series, <i>No Going Back. </i>More info: </span><a href="http://www.baen.com/order_isbn.asp?isbn=9781451638103">http://www.baen.com/order_isbn.asp?isbn=9781451638103</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">22: Local author new novel: Hillsborough's John Claude Bemis's </span><i style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12452491-the-prince-who-fell-from-the-sky">The Prince Who Fell From the Sky</a></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> to be published by Random House Books for Young Readers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">17: Regional author new novel: Tor to publish Greensboro author Orson Scott Card's (along with Aaron Johnson) </span><i style="background-color: white;">Earth Unaware: The First Formic War</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800; white-space: pre-wrap;">31: Local author new novel: Solaris Books to publish Hillsborough author James Maxey's <i>Hush</i> -- continuing his new fantasy series which begins with <i>Greatshadow</i> in January (see above).</span></div>
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<b style="white-space: pre-wrap;">AUGUST 2012</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">1: Local editor new anthology: Raleigh author and anthologist John Kessel's latest anthology (co-edited with James Patrick Kelly) to be released: <a href="http://tachyonpublications.com/book/Digital_Rapture.html">Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology</a> from Tachyon Publications.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">14: Local author new collection: Raleigh author Kij Johnson's fiction collection <i>At the Mouth of the River of Bees</i> to be published by Small Beer Press.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1: (Date TBD) Local author new novel: Raleigh authors Clay and Susan Griffith conclude their Vampire Empire series with book 3 (Title TBD) after 2010's <i>The Greyfriar </i>and 2011's <i>The Rift Walker</i>. From Pyr Books. More info: </span><a href="http://clayandsusangriffith.blogspot.com/">http://clayandsusangriffith.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">30: Regional author new novel: Greensboro author Orson Scott Card continues his <i>Pathfinder</i> (Simon Pulse, November 2010) series for young readers with <i>Ruins</i>.</span><br />
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</div>montsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-2190259273990210322011-12-02T13:04:00.001-05:002011-12-02T13:31:56.407-05:00Ending the radio silence with some burst broadcasts:It's been nearly a month: no Bull Spec #7; no December newsletter; hardly anybody has gotten their Kickstarter gear in hand yet; etc. So, some bursts into the static:<br />
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<li>Yup, issue #7 is late. Still at least a week before it will be in a printable state. Very sorry to everyone concerned, not the least of which Candlemark & Gleam and Pyr, whose advertisements help make the issue possible, and whom I told it would be out mid last month. Still, some good news: Bull Spec has a real, legitimate designer now: Gabriel Dunston. His layouts are crisp and much more inventive than mine, though retaining the overall 2-column design and readability. The cover is coming along in most excellent fashion, with Angi Shearstone's illustration of D. K. Thompson's story, with Jeremy Zerfoss coming in to put the final cover design together. Thanks to new reviews editor Alex Ward, the reviews and interviews are being copy edited into shape. I'm quite proud of the stories in what is my next-to-last issue as fiction editor.</li>
<li>The December newsletter is coming soon. There's a new event just around the corner, <a href="http://flyleafbooks.com/event/hillary-mantel-reads-signs-her-new-novel-when-she-woke" style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;" title="view this event">Hillary Jordan reads & signs her new novel When She Woke</a> at Chapel Hill's Flyleaf Books on Monday, December 5th at 7 pm. Also, there'll be a full list of the local and regional author books I know about coming in 2012. A few January events are still to be finalized, but I'll give you what info I have.</li>
<li>I did get all the Kickstarter "surveys" out and have been gathering them in, ordering books as needed, and I think now that we have a final pendant count we will get those underway. T-shirts to be ordered ASAP now that pretty much everybody has gotten back to me on size and style.</li>
<li>Natania Barron's Pilgrim of the Sky is *in stock* at both Amazon.com and BN.com -- that probably means that you can order it from pretty much any bookstore you'd like to, though it's not in the IndieBound website catalog so it might be more of a special order.</li>
<li>On the front of "getting some things done, cutting some things for later" I was going to finally put together a post covering the several writing (and reading) groups I know about, but I think that will wait for January.</li>
<li>A couple of really nice Bull Spec news bits: <a href="http://sfsite.com/12a/bs357.htm">SF Site reviews issue #6 very favorably</a> and <a href="http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/12/mind-meld-makeup-our-favorite-sff-consumed-during-2011/">SF Signal's year-end mind meld</a> mentions M. David Blake's "Absinthe Fish" as a story "w<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">hich perfectly fulfills my criteria for "mind-blowing fiction."</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When I get around to it, I'll be closing Bull Spec to fiction submissions for the rest of the year.</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Whew. OK. Onward and forward, etc.</span></div>montsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-34173849128338260732011-11-09T10:14:00.004-05:002011-12-02T10:28:40.991-05:002011 local and regional author holiday book buying guide.As the nights get colder and you look for a book to curl up with, or for a gift for the readers (or those darned fools who <b>should</b> be reading!) in your life, there are hundreds and hundreds of choices. Well, here, I'll narrow this down to local and regional authors in (primarily, I promise!) science fiction and fantasy, presented along a few categories. Enjoy! (And if this isn't quite enough, there's always <a href="http://bullspec.blogspot.com/2010/11/bull-specs-holiday-shopping-guide.html">last year's list</a>...)<br />
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(<b>A brief aside</b> for a local book-buying hint: I've largely given Goodreads links for the books here. Use the "online stores" dropdown to select IndieBound, and then use IndieBound's buttons to find it in a local store by zip code or city. <b>And one more thing:</b> there are a lot of Kindle and other e-books that I didn't list -- Wake Forest author <a href="http://michaeljasper.net/">Michael Jasper</a> and Hertford, NC author <a href="http://www.davidniallwilson.com/">David Niall Wilson</a>, among others, I am <b>so</b> looking at you -- this list is really meant to be a "stuff I can pick up or at least order in a local bookstore by a local author, wrap up, and give to someone" list, with exceptions for a couple of digital-only audiobooks.)<br />
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<b>YOUNG READERS:</b><br />
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<li><b>Hillsborough</b>: John Claude Bemis's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9796055-the-white-city"><i>The White City</i></a> (Random House Books for Young Readers, August) concludes his The Clockwork Dark trilogy, which began with 2009's <i>The Nine Pound Hammer</i> and continued with 2010's <i>The Wolf Tree</i>. Audiobooks (both boxed CD sets and giftable Audible.com downloads) for all 3 books are also available. Additionally, a <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10309881-the-wolf-tree">paperback edition of <i>The Wolf Tree</i></a> came out this year<b> </b></li>
<li><b>Durham</b>: Stephen Messer's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8089200-the-death-of-yorik-mortwell"><i>The Death of Yorik Mortwell</i></a> (Random House Books for Young Readers, September) is his second standalone book for young readers after last year's <i>Windblowne</i>. This one is a quirky ghost story, illustrated by Gris Grimly. Additionally, a <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9735816-windblowne">paperback edition of <i>Windblowne</i></a> came out this year</li>
<li><b>Charlotte</b>: A. J. Hartley's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10718699-darwen-arkwright-and-the-peregrine-pact"><i>Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact</i></a> (Razorbill, October) introduces 11-year-old Darwen Arkwright, a boy who has just moved from England to Atlanta. <span id="freeText13161380210844140618">R.L. Stine calls it "Fantastic, surprising fun!" and it received a positive <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1194392397">review from </a></span><a href="http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/review/darwen-arkwright-and-peregrine-pact">the <i>NY Journal of Books</i></a></li>
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<b>FANTASY:</b><br />
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<li><b>Pittsboro</b>: David Drake's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9796087-out-of-the-waters"><i>Out of the Waters</i></a> (Tor, July) is the second novel in his Books of the Elements tetralogy, which began with last year's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9941788-the-legions-of-fire"><i>The Legions of Fire</i></a> which was released in mass market paperback earlier this year</li>
<li><b>Raleigh</b>: Clay and Susan Griffith's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10790180-the-rift-walker"><i>The Rift Walker</i></a> (Pyr, September) is the second novel in their Vampire Empire trilogy, which began with last year's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8140709-the-greyfriar"><i>The Greyfriar</i></a></li>
<li><b>Chapel Hill</b>: Natania Barron's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9796521-pilgrim-of-the-sky"><i>Pilgrim of the Sky</i></a> (Candlemark & Gleam, December) is her debut novel, which Cherie Priest calls <span id="freeText2272626478312931251">"... a lush, dreamy
fable - both vintage gothic, and modern mystery ... lovingly laced with
magic and darkness from start to finish."</span> Pre-orders are being handled through a <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/candlemarkandgleam/print-release-of-pilgrim-of-the-sky">Kickstarter campaign</a> as well as via B&N -- though I'm sure other local bookstores can figure out how to get the book to you</li>
<li><b>Durham</b>: Mur Lafferty's 5-book Afterlife series (<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2276553.Heaven"><i>Heaven</i></a>, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2334491.Hell"><i>Hell</i></a>, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2334506.Earth"><i>Earth</i></a>, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3118500-wasteland"><i>Wasteland</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6514664-war"><i>War</i></a>), originally released as podcasted audiobooks, were published in beautiful matching hardcover editions</li>
<li><b>Raleigh</b>: Lewis Shiner's 1994 World Fantasy Award-winning novel <a href="http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B004QOJRVO&qid=1320872086&sr=1-1"><i>Glimpses</i></a> was released in digital audio format at Audible.com</li>
<li>Kelly Gay's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9510753-the-hour-of-dust-and-ashes"><i>The Hour of Dust and Ashes</i></a> (Pocket Books, August) is book 3 in her Charlie Madigan urban fantasy series</li>
<li>Lisa Shearin's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8517235-con-conjure"><i>Con & Conjure</i></a> (Ace, February/March) is book 5 in her Raine Benares urban fantasy series </li>
<li><b>Greensboro</b>: Orson Scott Card's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9265891-the-lost-gate"><i>The Lost Gate</i></a> (Tor, January) begins a new series called The Mither Mages -- also available in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10264769-the-lost-gate">digital audio</a> from Blackstone Audio</li>
<li><b>Charlotte</b>: Gail Z. Martin's <i><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316093576">The Sworn</a></i> (Orbit, January/February) begins her second series, The Fallen Kings Cycle, in the same world as her previous, picking up after the events of her Chronicles of the Necromancer -- also available in CD, MP3-CD, and digital audio from Tantor Media</li>
<li><b>NC</b>: Teresa Frohock's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10193060-miserere"><i>Miserere: An Autumn Tale</i></a> (Night Shade Books, July) is her debut fantasy novel, and begins a trilogy</li>
<li><b>Georgia</b>: J.M. McDermott's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9359810-never-knew-another"><i>Never Knew Another</i></a> (Night Shade Books, January) began his Dogsland Trilogy; additionally, a new paperback edition of his first novel <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10407670-last-dragon"><i>Last Dragon</i></a> was published by Apex early this year</li>
<li><b>ex-NC</b>: Tim Pratt's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10898593-briarpatch"><i>Briarpatch</i></a> (ChiZine Publications, September)</li>
<li><b>ex-NC</b>: Tim Akers's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9570832-dead-of-veridon"><i>Dead of Veridon</i></a> (Solaris Books, May) </li>
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<b>SCIENCE FICTION:</b><br />
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<li><b>Chapel Hill</b>: Rebecca Rowe's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11308934-circle-tide"><i>Circle Tide</i></a> (EDGE, August) is a "loose prequel" to her previous novel <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1667717.Forbidden_Cargo"><i>Forbidden Cargo</i></a> </li>
<li><b>Pittsboro</b>: David Drake's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10490360-into-the-hinterlands"><i>Into the Hinterlands</i></a> (Wake Forest-based Baen Books, September, co-written with John Lambshead) begins a new space opera series plotted against the life of George Washington.</li>
<li><b>Pittsboro</b>: David Drake's <i>Hammer's Slammers</i> series came to digital audio at Audible.com in April, narrated superbly by Stefan Rudnicki: <a alt="At Any Price & Rolling Hot: Hammer's Slammers Series" class="adbl-link" href="http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B004RPWTZI&qid=1320872369&sr=1-1">At Any Price & Rolling Hot</a>, <a alt="The Sharp End: Hammer's Slammers Series" class="adbl-link" href="http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_2?asin=B004RPWWGY&qid=1320872369&sr=1-2">The Sharp End</a>, <a alt="Counting the Cost & The Warrior: Hammer's Slammers Series" class="adbl-link" href="http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_3?asin=B004RPUIG0&qid=1320872369&sr=1-3">Counting the Cost & The Warrior</a>, and<a alt="Paying the Piper: Hammer's Slammers Series" class="adbl-link" href="http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_4?asin=B004RPWRUK&qid=1320872369&sr=1-4"> Paying the Piper</a></li>
<li><b>Raleigh</b>: Mark L. Van Name's 2010 novel <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10261177-children-no-more"><i>Children No More</i></a> was released in mass market paperback by Wake Forest-based Baen Books</li>
<li><b>High Point</b>: Robin Parrish's <i>Corridor </i>(December) will be released in paperback and e-book by StoneHouse Ink -- <a href="http://www.robinparrish.com/books/this-is-what-corridor-is-about/">a little more information here</a></li>
<li><b>South Carolina</b>: T.C. McCarthy's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10432883-germline"><i>Germline</i></a> (Orbit, July) was released as an original mass market paperback, and is also available in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10732513-germline">audio</a> from Blackstone Audio</li>
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<b>FICTION:</b> <br />
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<li><b>Durham</b>: David Halperin's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8679125-journal-of-a-ufo-investigator"><i>Journal of a UFO Investigator</i></a>
(Viking, February) is not "properly" science fiction, but it was a novel
I very much enjoyed and which freely borrows and uses science fictional
techniques and elements -- also available in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9816074-journal-of-a-ufo-investigator">audio</a> from Blackstone Audio</li>
<li><b>Raleigh</b>: Lewis Shiner's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11504559-dark-tangos"><i>Dark Tangos</i></a> (Subterranean Press, August) is a taut thriller set against Argentinian tangos and intrigue and last I saw, both The Regulator and Quail Ridge Books (which each hosted book signings) had signed copies in stock. Additionally,with new paperback editions of <i>Say Goodbye</i> and <i>Slam</i> this year, all of Shiner's previous novels are back in print in a "definitive edition" 6-book series. Some of these, including his first novel <i>Frontera</i> and later books <i>Glimpses</i> and <i>Deserted Cities of the Heart</i>, are speculative fiction novels, for those whose tastes are a little more exclusive, and the last of the six, <i>Black & White</i>, follows the construction of the Durham Freeway</li>
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<b>COLLECTIONS:</b><br />
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<li><b>Hillsborough</b>: James Maxey's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11513563-there-is-no-wheel"><i>There Is No Wheel</i></a> (NC-based Spolight Publishing)</li>
<li><b>Greensboro</b>: Edmund Schubert's <i><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11927145-the-trouble-with-eating-clouds">The Trouble with Eating Clouds</a> </i>(NC-based Spolight Publishing)</li>
<li><b>ex-Raleigh</b>: Jason Erik Lundberg's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10252870-red-dot-irreal"><i>Red Dot Irreal</i></a></li>
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<b>ANTHOLOGIES:</b><br />
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<li><b>Raleigh</b>: Mark L. Van Name's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10118570-the-wild-side"><i>The Wild Side</i></a> (Wake Forest-based Baen Books) is an anthology of original urban fantasy stories "with an erotic edge", including a story from local writer Gina Massel-Castater</li>
<li><b>Raleigh</b>: John Kessel's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12034495-kafkaesque"><i>Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka</i></a> (Tachyon Publications, co-edited by James Patrick Kelly) -- there's a great chance to pick up a personalized/signed copy at a <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com/event/john-kessel-ruth-gross-kafkaesque">December 7th event at Quail Ridge Books</a></li>
<li><b>Pittsboro</b>: David Drake's story "Than Curse the Darkness" was reprinted in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11196925-the-book-of-cthulhu"><i>The Book of Cthulhu</i></a> (Night Shade Books, September)</li>
<li><b>Durham</b>: Mur Lafferty's story "1963: The Argument Against Louis Pasteur" is in the Ann and Jeff VanderMeer-edited anthology <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9466840-the-thackery-t-lambshead-cabinet-of-curiosities"><i>The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities</i></a> (HarperVoyager, July), along with microfiction from Winston-Salem's Nadine Wilson and art from Greeville's Scott Eagle</li>
<li><b>Durham</b>: Richard Dansky is one of the contributors to <i><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10594343-night-mantled">Night-Mantled: The Best of Wily Writers, Volume 1</a></i></li>
<li><b>Raleigh</b>: Kij Johnson's story "Story Kit" is in the Jonathan Strahan-edited original science fiction and fantasy anthology <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8136238-eclipse-4"><i>Eclipse 4</i></a> (Night Shade Books, May, which also includes ex-local Andy Duncan's "Slow as a Bullet"); her 2010 story "Names For Water" appears in the Strahan-edited <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9817442-the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-of-the-year-volume-5"><i>The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5</i></a> (Night Shade Books, March, which also includes Raleigh author John Kessel's 2010 story "Iteration"); and her 2009 story "Spar" appears in the Kevin J. Anderson-edited anthology <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10350287-the-nebula-awards-showcase-2011"><i>Nebula Awards Showcase 2011</i></a> (Tor Books, May)</li>
<li><b>Raleigh</b>: Eric Gregory's story "The Harrowers" is in the John Joseph Adams-edited anthology <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12114336-lightspeed"><i>Lightspeed: Year One</i></a> (Prime, November 15)</li>
<li><b>Raleigh</b>: Lewis Shiner's 1988 story "Love in Vain" appears in the Joe R. Lansdale-edited anthology <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8737027-crucified-dreams"><i>Crucified Dreams</i></a> (Tachyon Publications, February); and his story "The Long, Dark Night of Fortunato" is in the 1987 George R.R. Martin-edited anthology <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11387749-wild-cards-i"><i>Wild Cards I</i></a>, which was just released in audiobook format by Brilliance Audio, accompanying an updated 2010 print edition from Tor Books</li>
<li><b>Durham</b>: Richard Dansky's story "The Man Who Built Haunted Houses" is in <a href="haunted:%2011%20Tales%20of%20Ghostly%20Horror"><i>Haunted: 11 Tales of Ghostly Horror</i></a> (Flames Rising Press, October)</li>
<li> <b>Greenville</b>: Ada Milenkovic Brown's story "Nadirah Sends Her Love" is in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10412991-crossed-genres-quarterly-01"><i>Crossed Genres Quarterly #1</i></a> (January, edited by Natania Barron and Jaym Gates) and she has another story in the forthcoming anthology <i>River: The Anthology</i> (Dark Quest Books)</li>
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<b>NON-FICTION:</b><br />
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<li><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9965066-how-to-write-magical-words"><i>How to Write Magical Words: A Writer's Companion</i></a> includes essays from regional authors Edmund Schubert, A.J. Hartley, Stuart Jaffe, and Mistey Massey</li>
<li><i><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9432169-1-000-steampunk-creations">1,000 Steampunk Creations: Neo-Victorian Fashion, Gear, and Art</a></i> includes a contribution from local jeweler and writer J.L. Hilton</li>
<li><b>Hillsborough</b>: <i>Global Climate Change</i> by Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey, Duke University Press.</li>
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<b>GRAPHIC NOVELS and COMICS:</b><br />
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<li>Firetower Studios released a trade paperback collecting the first several issues of the ongoing <i>The Order of Dagonet</i> by Jeremy Whitley (story) and Jason Strutz (art) </li>
<li>Tommy Lee Edwards's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12446953-turf"><i>TURF</i></a> (Image Comics, story by Jonathan Ross) was released in hardcover, collecting the entire miniseires -- also available in a special limited edition alternate binding at <a href="http://ultimatecomicsonline.com/">Ultimate Comics</a></li>
<li>Angi Shearstone's <i>BloodDreams</i> is "Vampire Punk" praised by Warren Ellis -- check it out <a href="http://www.blooddreams.com/blooddreams/home.html">online</a> or in local comic stores</li>
<li>Jeremy Whitley's <i>Princeless</i> is a subversive take on the archetypal "fair princess waiting in a dragon-guarded tower for rescue from a handsome prince" story -- from Action Labs, with issue #2 just released</li>
<li><b>Greensboro</b>: Orson Scott Card and Emily Janice Card's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10814619-laddertop-volume-1"><i>Laddertop, Volume 1</i></a> (Tor Books, September, art by Honoel A. Ibardolaza) -- also available in a <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12724307-laddertop">digital audio</a> adaptation narrated by Stefan Rudnicki</li>
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<b>ROLE PLAYING GAMES:</b><br />
<ul>
<li>Bully Pulpit Games released the <a href="http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/store/#67"><i>Fiasco Companion</i></a> supplement to their GM-less storytelling game <a href="http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/games/fiasco/"><i>Fiasco</i></a> -- the game is praised by Wil Wheaton as: “Fiasco was one of the greatest storytelling RPGs I’ve ever played. I highly recommend it.”</li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">NEW-NEW:</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> 18 (Friday), 6 to 8 pm: Gerry Canavan presents "Shipwrecked Passengers on a Doomed Planet" as part of Duke Univsity's Literature Grad Student </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Colloquium</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">. "</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">I’m presenting from chapter three of my dissertation, on ecology and apocalypse in 1970s and post-1970s science fiction[.]"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;"> More info: </span></span><a href="http://gerrycanavan.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/111811-shipwrecked-passengers-on-a-doomed-planet/">http://gerrycanavan.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/111811-shipwrecked-passengers-on-a-doomed-planet/</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">9 (Friday) at 7:00 pm: Quail Ridge Books: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">Cassandra Clare brings us her latest, <em><strong>Clockwork Prince</strong></em>. In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting.<em><strong>Clockwork Prince</strong></em> is the sequel to <em><strong>Clockwork Angel</strong>,</em> and part of the<em>Infernal Devices </em>trilogy. For ages 12 and up. Cassandra Clare is best known for her hugely popular<em> Mortal Instruments </em>series. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">SIGNING LINE TICKET EVENT - receive a signing line ticket with the purchase of any of Cassandra Clare's books. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">More info: </span><a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com/event/cassandra-clare-ya-novel-clockwork-prince">http://www.quailridgebooks.com/event/cassandra-clare-ya-novel-clockwork-prince</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13: Local author new novel: Natania Barron, </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pilgrim of the Sky</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from Candlemark & Gleam. "A novel that might be best described as mythpunk. With elements of fantasy, science fiction, Romantic poetry, steampunk, and multiverse theory, well, it isn’t exactly the sort of book that finds a comfortable little niche to sit in." More info: </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://pilgrimofthesky.com/">http://pilgrimofthesky.com/</a></span></span></span></span><br />
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</div>montsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-86515484205486982892011-10-30T16:57:00.000-04:002011-10-30T16:57:48.090-04:00Quail Ridge Books gets ready for a run of events.The November events newsletter is just about ready, but I wanted to give a little bit of space to <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com/">Quail Ridge Books</a> this evening, as they're hosting a run of sf events in November and into December.<br />
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First up is a <a href="http://bullspec.blogspot.com/2011/10/breaking-event-news-quail-ridge-books.html">recently-added</a> event for L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s <i>SCHOLAR</i> on Wednesday, November 9 at 7:30 pm:<br />
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Then, while <i>Doc</i> does not fall under the rubric of speculative fiction, Mary Doria Russell, author of the spectacular science fiction novel <i>The Sparrow</i>, is reading on Tuesday, November 15, at 7:30 pm:<br />
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This might be the first "sighting in the wild" for <i>Kafkaesque</i>, an anthology of Kafka-inspired short stories edited by John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly. Ruth Gross joins NCSU's Prof. Kessel for an event on Wednesday, December 7, at 7:30 pm:<br />
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Whew. Anyway, these events (and more) will go out in tomorrow's newsletter, but since I was recently in the store and all these events and books were just staring me in the face...<br />
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Speaking of -- I didn't get these next few posted for a <a href="http://bullspec.blogspot.com/2011/09/this-weeks-events-rift-walker-and-dark.html">couple of mid-September events</a> at QRB, but, hey, better late than never. (And some of these stacks of books are still waiting, signed, for you.)<br />
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<br />montsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-8563697493509660272011-10-28T09:35:00.005-04:002011-10-28T09:57:23.115-04:00Fantasy novel from a Connecticut 13 year old with Crohn's Disease.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.sarah-story.com/sarahs-writing/" href="http://www.sarah-story.com/sarahs-writing/">http://www.sarah-story.com/sarahs-writing/</a></span><br />
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Chronicles a bit of the struggles of a young girl with Crohn's Disease, and talks about her short fantasy novel which was self-published in Nook, Kindle, and (free) ePub form. It's not the greatest story ever told (contemporary fantasy, Ash, Rayne, the council and its Head) but it's probably a good step up from my efforts at that age :) (if I were foolish enough to read what I have safely boxed away in my closet, I suppose a comparison could be made, but really, nobody wants that).<br />
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(Like the recent Marine Expeditionary vs. Rome thing, "it came from <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/lrny6/my_beautiful_talented_and_very_sick_13_year_old/" href="http://www.sfwa.org/forum/index.php?app=forums&module=post&section=post&do=new_post&f=18">reddit</a>".)<br />
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<b>Update:</b> It looks like I'm going to be sending a books/etc. "care package" from the Triangle area, so if you have some middle grade books or something you want to send, get ahold of me.</div>montsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8671138066699282151.post-65153681789155608972011-10-27T13:59:00.003-04:002011-10-27T14:01:32.463-04:00Closing to poetry submissions until (at least) January.Hey all. Still open for fiction until (planned) December 1, but we're now closed to poetry submissions until (at least) January. I've updated the <a href="http://www.bullspec.com/guidelines">guidelines</a> page to reflect this. We've got a full slate of poetry through issue 8 and more, along with some fun things which Dan hasn't announced. Also, if anyone has a poetry submission pending, that they should hear from Dan within 2 weeks. So: get writing! No need to rush. We'll be here when you're ready. -Sammontsamuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07591244606673064670noreply@blogger.com0