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Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, September 2014: Graham Joyce, Adam Roberts, Infinity Plus, Gwyneth Jones, and more

Posted on 2014-10-07 at 13:35 by montsamu

From the Other Side, September 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.]

September has been a sad month, since it opened with the death of Graham Joyce. You would be hard put to find any photograph of Graham in which he didn’t have a huge grin. It’s a measure of the man: he was charming, delightful, great company and someone who enjoyed life to the full. He was also one of the finest fantasists you

Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged adam roberts, graham joyce, gwyneth jones, howard jacobson, infinity plus, keith brooke, orbit, paul kincaid

Coming to Town: Marie Lu for The Young Elites at Flyleaf Books, interviewed by Sharon Stogner

Posted on 2014-10-06 at 18:11 by montsamu

This Wednesday (October 8th) Chapel Hill's Flyleaf Books welcomes Marie Lu, the bestselling author of the Legend trilogy, for her new young adult novel The Young Elites, out tomorrow from Putnam Juvenile: "Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through her nation. Most of the infected perished, while many of the children who survived were left with strange markings. Adelina’s black hair turned silver, her lashes went pale, and now she has only a jagged scar

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged flyleaf books, marie lu, sharon stogner, the young elites

Coming to Town: Kami Garcia and Carrie Ryan for Garcia's "Unmarked" at Quail Ridge Books, interviewed by Sharon Stogner

Posted on 2014-10-01 at 15:44 by montsamu

On Friday, October 3, Quail Ridge Books [Facebook] welcomes the NY Times bestselling coauthor of Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia, for Unmarked, the second novel in her "The Legion" series which began with Unbreakable, where "a supernatural murder leads a young woman to join a secret society, the Legion of the Black Dove." Joining Garcia for the event is Charlotte author Carrie Ryan, author of the chilling The Forest of Hands and Teeth series. Quoth the bookstore: "Join us as they converse on writing and

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged carrie ryan, kami garcia, quail ridge books, sharon stogner

The Hardest Part: Jenna Black on The Gifted Dead

Posted on 2014-09-24 at 14:31 by montsamu

When I asked author Jenna Black, whose Nikki Glass books have been published by Pocket Books, Faeriewalker series by St. Martin's Griffin, Guardians of the Night series and Replica by Tor, and Morgan Kingsley series by Dell, what the hardest part of her latest novel had been, I thought I knew what I was going to get. Black had elected to self-publish the first book of a new contemporary fantasy series, The Gifted Dead, and I'd assumed that making that decision had weighed quite heavily on her. Not so, I

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged jenna black, the gifted dead

Coming to Town: Scott Westerfeld for Afterworlds at Quail Ridge Books, interviewed by Mur Lafferty

Posted on 2014-09-23 at 14:36 by montsamu

Scott Westerfeld came to prominence a decade ago with his award-winning and best-selling dystopian young adult series "Uglies", then set his sights on a middle grade alternate history of Steampunk "Clankers" and gene-splicing "Darwinists" for his "Leviathan" series, a fantastically-illustrated (and narrated, by Alan Cumming) adventure-romp through WW1-era Europe by diesel-powered mech walkers, modified whale airships, and (perhaps) even stranger methods. It's been 3 years since Goliath concluded that series

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged afterworlds, mur lafferty, nanowrimo, quail ridge books, Scott Westerfeld

Friday Quick Updates: The Escapism Film Festival this weekend along with plays and musicals and comedy, John and Carole Barrowman announced as NC Comicon headliners, a free writing workshop, and more

Posted on 2014-09-19 at 15:34 by montsamu

Friday, September 19, 2014: Who's up for a show? You have your pick between film, stage, musical, and comedy performances tonight, with The Escapism Film Festival, Little Green Pig's HMLT, and North Raleigh Arts' Xanadu playing through the weekend. Some of the Escapism lineup? Ice Pirates, The Princess Bride, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, The Neverending Story, The Last of the Mohicans, and The Last Unicorn. Yup, it's set to be a fun weekend, though watch out for parking in downtown Durham as it's also Center

Posted in Friday Quick Updates | Tagged John Barrowman

Local author new release: Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle

Posted on 2014-09-18 at 18:43 by montsamu

John Darnielle's brilliant lyricism is no secret to Triangle-area fans of his internationally-acclaimed band The Mountain Goats. Fewer have, however, taken the plunge (or perhaps known about) his more lengthily literary side, expressed most publicly (until now) as a novella in Continuum's 33 1/3 series, Black Sabbath: Master of Reality, a 100-page examination of the classic heavy metal album from the perspective of a 15-year-old psychiatric patient. His first full-length novel, Wolf in White Van, was

Posted in Release Day | Tagged John Darnielle, quail ridge books, the regulator, wolf in white van

The Hardest Part: T. Kingfisher on Toad Words and Other Stories

Posted on 2014-09-17 at 19:00 by montsamu

In early August, NC author T. Kingfisher published a new collection Toad Words and Other Stories, a "collection of fairy-tale retellings for adults. By turns funny and dark, sad and lyrical, this anthology draws together in one volume such stories as 'The Wolf and the Woodsman', 'Loathly', and 'Bluebeard's Wife', along with an all-new novella, 'Boar & Apples'." While many of the stories had previously appeared in various forms on the author's blog, having substantial new content and a trove of stories to

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged t kingfisher, toad words and other stories, ursula vernon

The Hardest Part: Tony Daniel on "Islands"

Posted on 2014-09-11 at 19:21 by montsamu

Baen editor Tony Daniel has been a busy man of late. Since his 2012 novel Guardian of Night he has published 3 additional novels (Star Trek: Devil's Bargain and two books co-authored with David Drake: Manly Wade Wellman Award-nominated The Heretic and just-published The Savior) and two short stories, and directed and hosted Baen's Parsec Award-nominated podcast The Baen Free Radio Hour. He's also been active on the convention circuit, both as a panelist and (of course) as a frequent host of the Baen

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged islands, tony daniel

Coming to Town: Kim Harrison at Quail Ridge Books for The Witch with No Name

Posted on 2014-09-10 at 13:33 by montsamu

This is it. This is the big one. Kim Harrison's bestselling "Hollows" series kicked off with 2004's Dead Witch Walking and yesterday saw the publication of the concluding thirteenth novel, The Witch with No Name. Harrison has come through town on her tours for many of the previous books, most recently just back in March for The Undead Pool, and NC writer/editor Sharon Stogner reprises her role as "Coming to Town" interviewer ahead of Harrison's next local appearance, this Friday (September 12) at Raleigh's

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged kim harrison, quail ridge books, sharon stogner