Bull Spec Dragon*Con Flyers

Happy trails, all you fine folks heading to Dragon*Con! Here are some flyers which will help you keep track of the Bull Spec contributors and interviewees and such, though there's more even than I had room to list:


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So please! Print, post, share! And come by The Missing Volume in the Marriot Marquis dealer room to check out a copy of Bull Spec!

edit: Yipes! I forgot a big event which is happening tomorrow (Saturday): the Parsec Awards! The finalists list includes Durham author Mur Lafferty's "Marco and the Red Granny", the fiction podcast she edits (Escape Pod), and her excellent "I Should Be Writing" podcast as well. (And her daughter's "Princess Scientist's Book Club" podcast!) This year's ceremony details are: "The 2011 Parsec Awards ceremony will be held on September 3rd at DragonCon. The event will be in Hyatt Regency V Ballroom, the same place it has been for the past several years. The doors will open at 4pm, and the ceremony will begin around 4:30, or when we are able to get things set up, whichever comes later." And there will be a cash bar reception in the same location after the ceremony.

WorldCon fun! Just not for Sam.

Well, I see a long contrail (ha ha) of "See you guys, I'm off to World Con!" so it must be that time again: time to live vicariously through others, and try to get the word out about Bull Spec. First, I hope you all have a great time. No, really, I do.

Secondly, some flyers! I've lately enjoyed peeking at the participants lists of these conventions and noting how many folks can be found in the pages of Bull Spec. This time, I spy, with my little eye, 10 -- count 'em, TEN! -- such folks at World Con:

• Lou Anders (interviewee, issue #4)
• Lev Grossman (interviewee, issue #6)
• Joe Haldeman  (interviewee, issue #3)
• Daniel M. Kimmel ("Them!", issue #5)
• Mur Lafferty (review of The Wolf Tree, issue #6)
• Nick Mamatas ("Oh, Harvard Square!", issue #4, and a growing list of reviews)
• Tim Pratt ("Hell's Lottery", issue #5)
• Brandon Sanderson (interviewee, issue #3)
• Jonathan Strahan (interviewee, issue #5)
• Jacob Weisman (interviewee, issue #3)

And what I wanted to do was put together a BINGO sheet and have folks scavenger hunt their way to prizes via stalking and forcing these folks to sign said sheets. Well, we'll skip the forcing and go straight to stalking and the prizes. This flyer is double-sided. The first side is for me. The back side is for you -- easy reference to the published panel schedules for the above folks. (And a few extra things.)

And here's a color version of the first page, suitable for posting on walls, doors, etc. You know, generally wallpapering, etc.:

Now, what this doesn't have is the long list of "Friends of Bull Spec" or even the full list of contributors who will be out there. M. David Blake ("Absinthe Fish" in issue #5) is heading to Reno, as is Preston Grassmann ("Cael's Continuum" in issue #5, along with an interview with Hannu Rajaniemi in the same issue), and I'm sure there are more. But, sadly, you don't have to collect them all. You just have to find Marc (M. David Blake) and ask him nicely, and, while supplies last, he will have some Bull Spec goodies for folks.

So: enjoy! Print! Share! Have a blast, and good luck also to all the Hugo and Campbell nominees! (Particularly including Bull Spec contributors Lou Anders, Jonathan Strahan, Lev Grossman, Kij Johnson, and Brandon Sanderson. But, yeah, all of you.)

So many, many things.

First, a "fall" flyer is here, which stretches from mid-September through November. Contents are basically:


GUIDE TO LOCAL EVENTS
FALL 2010

SEPTEMBER
12 McIntyre’s Books hosts Warren Rochelle for a reading and signing of his new novel The Called
21 Duke University hosts William Gibson for a local stop on his tour promoting his new novel Zero History


OCTOBER
22 Quail Ridge Books hosts Scott Westerfeld for a reading and signing of his new young adult novel Behemoth, sequel to Leviathan
26 Mark Van Name reads from and talks about his new science fiction novel Children No More at The Regulator Bookshop; author’s proceeds donated to Falling Whistles, a child soldier rehabilitation charity

NOVEMBER
12 Clay and Susan Griffith will read and sign their upcoming novel The Greyfriar: Vampire Empire at Quail Ridge Books
16 Cate Tiernan will read and sign her new young adult novel Immortal Beloved at The Regulator Bookshop

Not listed there is NC Comicon on 13-14 November in Morrisville. When there's a little more room off the top, I'll get a new flyer put together, hopefully to include the Bull Spec #3 launch and a few more things in the works along the local rumor mill.

OK. Second! Bull Spec #3 has cover art, and Firetower Studios' Jason Strutz is the source. He's posted a nice little walkthrough of starting with a sketch and building it into the finished piece:

You can see how far he came from my original!

Hm. I'm sure there was more to mention when I sat down...

September 2010 events flyer.

The flyers seem to be a fairly popular little thing, so here is the September 2010 Local Events/News flyer. It is a PDF file which you may and probably should print out a bunch of times and put everywhere.

Inside:

SEPTEMBER 2010

1 Michael Jasper’s contemporary fantasy webcomic In Maps and Legends (art by Niki Smith) returns with a new issue
2 Mark Van Name reads from and talks about his new science fiction novel Children No More at Quail Ridge Books; author’s proceeds donated to Falling Whistles, a child soldier rehabilitation charity
7 Quail Ridge Books hosts bestselling epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson for a reading and signing of his new novel The Way of Kings: The Stormlight Archive, Vol. 1
12 McIntyre’s Books (Fearrington Village) hosts Warren Rochelle for a reading and signing of his new novel The Called
21 Duke University hosts William Gibson for a local stop on his tour promoting his new novel Zero History

ALSO

• Natania Barron is published (“The Wakened Image”)  in Weird Tales #356, the Summer 2010 “Uncanny Beauty” issue
• Kij Johnson is published (“Names For Water”) in Asimov’s October 2010

And look for Bull Spec #3 in late September!

And the current list of local stores in which you might find Bull Spec:


DURHAM
The Regulator Bookshop
Sci-Fi Genre
Barnes & Noble (Southpoint)
Barnes & Noble (New Hope Commons)
Ultimate Comics (9th St)
Gothic Bookshop
Sweets & News (Northgate)

CHAPEL HILL
Internationalist Books
Chapel Hill Comics
Ultimate Comics (Farrington Rd)
Flyleaf Books

CARY
Barnes & Noble (SE Maynard)

APEX
All Fun & Games

RALEIGH
Quail Ridge Books
Foundation’s Edge
Capitol Comics
Game Theory
NCSU Catalyst

WAKE FOREST
Story Teller’s Book Store