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Posted on 2014-11-10 at 21:18 by montsamu

As I wrote when introdudcing his collaborator's Hardest Part essay: "I’m a big fan of both Lex Wilson and Jason Strutz, so I was quite excited to see their new 7-day-only “Quickstarter” Kickstarter campaign for their new one-shot comic, KLAY. Strutz was (along with Jeremy Whitley) one of my first Bull Spec interviews, for their Order of Dagonet comics, and he went on to do two print issue covers and other interior illustration for me, and I’ve also enjoyed his fantastic work on David Foland’s Pizzula, befor

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged jason strutz, nc comicon

Friday Quick Updates: William Gibson tonight, NC Comicon next weekend, James Maxey's Bad Wizard countdown sale, and more

Posted on 2014-11-07 at 18:44 by montsamu

Friday, November 7, 2014: Ever since seeing Zack Smith report about it for Indy Week's fall arts preview, I've been looking forward to tonight: William Gibson will be at Motorco in Durham! Presented by The Regulator Bookshop, less than 40 tickets remain for this 7:30 reading, talk, and signing so: get your tickets, invite your friends (each ticket is good for two people, after all), and see you there! To whet your appetites, a pair of local interviews are available including Richard Butner's for Bull Spec (

Posted in Friday Quick Updates | Tagged james maxey, motorco, nc comicon, stacey cochran, the raleigh review, william gibson, zelda lockhart

Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, October 2014: 12 Doctors, Peter F. Hamilton, Lavie Tidhar, Ann Leckie, and Garry Kilworth

Posted on 2014-11-07 at 11:00 by montsamu

From the Other Side, October 2014

By Paul Kincaid

[Editor's Note: "From the Other Side" is Paul Kincaid's monthly column on books and news from the other side of the Atlantic.]

Sometime around the middle of October there is a date that is very special for the publishing industry. It is the day when more books are published than at any other time, indeed there are some who suggest that more books are published than in the whole of the rest of the year combined. They are, largely, books aimed at the

Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged adam roberts, akira, alien, ancillary sword, ann leckie, brazil, doctor who, garry kilworth, lavie tidhar, paul kincaid, peter f hamilton

The Hardest Part: James Maxey on Bad Wizard

Posted on 2014-11-05 at 19:07 by montsamu

Hillsborough author James Maxey is the author of superhero novels Nobody Gets the Girl and Burn Baby Burn, two epic fantasy series (Bitterwood and The Dragon Apocalypse), and a short fiction collection There Is No Wheel. Here he writes about his new novel Bad Wizard, the story of Dorothy Gale ten years after she returns from Oz. "Oz" has been fertile ground for authors to poke around in, from Gregory Maguire's Wicked to John Kessel's The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Geoff Ryman's Was, and Maxey

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged bad wizard, james maxey

Coming to Town: William Gibson for The Peripheral at Motorco Music Hall, reviewed and interviewed by Richard Butner

Posted on 2014-11-04 at 18:59 by montsamu

This Friday, William Gibson is coming to town for an event at Motorco Music Hall, presented by The Regulator Bookshop, as Gibson tours internationally for his new book, The Peripheral, his first novel since 2010's New York Times-bestselling Zero History. Gibson came to Durham on his tour for that book as well (photo, below/left) -- it was a fantastic event and we're expecting no less this time around. Below, Raleigh author Richard Butner reviews The Peripheral and interviews Gibson about the book. I hope

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged motorco music hall, richard butner, the peripheral, the regulator bookshop, william gibson

The Hardest Part: Lex Wilson on KLAY

Posted on 2014-10-31 at 14:51 by montsamu

I'm a big fan of both Lex Wilson and Jason Strutz, so I was quite excited to see their new 7-day-only "Quickstarter" Kickstarter campaign for their new one-shot comic, KLAY. It's foggy in my memory how long I've known each; Lex through his Eagle Award winning comics work, and his absolutely hilarious performance of his own "Romeo and Meatbox" story at a Flyleaf Books event, goggling to see him as an extra on ABC's Revolution, and of course his recent work on the "Islands" radioplay. Strutz was (along with

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged jason strutz, klay, lex wilson

The Hardest Part: Gail Z. Martin on writing multiple series

Posted on 2014-10-29 at 20:35 by montsamu

Charlotte author Gail Z. Martin is now really no stranger to Bull Spec’s ongoing guest column series The Hardest Part, as she wrote about launching a new epic fantasy universe with Ice Forged in January 2013, and then a year ago about making the jump to urban fantasy with Deadly Curiosities. Now she's back in this column as part of her annual #DaysOfTheDead blog tour and I couldn't be happier to be sending along her thoughts on maintaining muliple series in multiple genres as she picks up a new Steampunk

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged gail z. martin

October Newsletter: A Night of Local Horror, HonorCon, and (in November) William Gibson, NC Comicon, and NC Speculative Fiction Night

Posted on 2014-10-27 at 12:09 by montsamu

Vol 4. No 10. October 27, 2014: Well, this newsletter is coming quite a bit late in the month, but we've got plenty to show for it, both in the rear-view and coming up in late October and early November including visits from Timothy Zahn, John Barrowman, and William Gibson, and! the first NC Speculative Fiction Night event in quite a while. First, a quick look at some highlighted upcoming events:

Tuesday, October 28, Durham's Motorco Music Hall hosts A Night of Local Horror [Facebook] featuring 10 short

Posted in newsletter | Tagged david weber, John Barrowman, Timothy Zahn, william gibson

The Hardest Part: Ryan Hill on Dead New World

Posted on 2014-10-23 at 18:26 by montsamu

Raleigh author Ryan Hill is the author of two books, both out this year from Curiosity Quills Press. In May, it was his debut novel The Book of Bart, a novel of angels, demons, Templars, swearing, and sarcasm. Earlier this month saw the publication of his second novel, Dead New World, which begins a new trilogy: "Zombies aren’t mindless anymore. Before the world fell into chaos, the undead existed only in the imagination. Now, more of them walk the earth than living. Zombies move about freely, while humans

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged dead new world, ryan hill

The Hardest Part/Coming to Town: Beth Revis on The Body Electric

Posted on 2014-10-16 at 18:11 by montsamu

North Carolina author Beth Revis achieved fantastic critical and commercial success with her Across the Universe series, a young adult science fiction trilogy about "a love out of time and a spaceship built of secrets and murder" that has been translated into more than 20 languages. For The Body Electric, Revis once again offers a young adult science fiction novel, this time focused on memory, identity, and trust: "The future world is at peace. Ella Shepherd has dedicated her life to using her unique gift

Posted in Coming to Town, The Hardest Part | Tagged beth revis, flyleaf books, quail ridge books

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