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Coming to Town: Ann VanderMeer for The Time Traveler's Almanac at Flyleaf Books on Monday April 21 at 7 pm

Posted on 2014-04-18 at 16:14 by montsamu

Multiple award-winning editor Ann VanderMeer has been a frequent visitor to the Carolinas, both as an instructor at the SharedWorlds teen summer writing camp at Wofford College and multiple events both at Asheville's Malaprop's Bookstore and in the Triangle. In her 3rd appearance in the Triangle in the past 4 years, she will be at Chapel Hill's Flyleaf Books on Monday, April 21, as part of a tour for The Time Traveler's Almanac, a definitive, nearly 1000 page anthology of time travel stories. The tour

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged ann vandermeer, flyleaf books, malaprops bookstore

Friday Quick Updates: Elizabeth Langston, Chris Giarrusso, Atomic Comedy, Powerful Women in YA Lit, Mary Roach, and more

Posted on 2014-04-12 at 12:57 by montsamu

Saturday, April 12, 2014: Yeah, it's Saturday, but I didn't get these out yesterday and there's a big weekend ahead. Er. Upon us.

First up, covering Saturday means 3 events to tell you about:

• 10:30 am to 4 pm -- Ultimate Comics hosts G-Man & Mini-Marvel Creator Chris Giarrusso "for a signing of epic proportions! There will be FREE food, drinks, LIVE ART, and plenty of good times! This will be be a fun, all-ages event, so bring the whole family and don't forget to ask for a FREE SKETCH! If the weather is

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Coming to Town: Alexandra Duncan for Salvage, as part of Sunday's panel on powerful women in YA literature at Flyleaf Books

Posted on 2014-04-11 at 20:47 by montsamu

A week ago, Asheville author Alexandra Duncan contributed a "Hardest Part" guest post. Now she's back as a "Coming to Town" interviewee ahead of her appearance this Sunday at 2 pm as part of Flyleaf Books' Girl Power!: A Panel on Powerful Women in Young Adult Literature featuring Jessica Spotswood, Nathan Kotecki, Meagan Spooner, and Alexandra Duncan. We talked briefly about, well, the obvious: powerful women in YA lit, how the event was put together, and her just-released debut novel Salvage.

When

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged alexandra duncan, flyleaf books

The Hardest Part: Megan Miranda on Vengeance

Posted on 2014-04-10 at 16:07 by montsamu

Charlotte-area author Megan Miranda's 2012 debut novel Fracture introduced readers to teens Delaney Maxwell and Decker Phillips, the frozen waters of Falcon Lake, and a supernatural mystery both of Delaney's recovery from brain damage and her inexplicable ability to predict -- or perhaps cause? -- the imminent death of those around her. Written from Delaney's point of view, Fracture garnered a starred review from Publishers Weekly among a long list of other accolades, and she next published Hysteria, a

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April Newsletter: NC Literary Festival tonight (w/ Lev Grossman) through this weekend; Ann VanderMeer brings time travel to Flyleaf Books on April 21; so many new books; and (in May) Christopher Moore and Mary Robinette Kowal

Posted on 2014-04-03 at 20:20 by montsamu

Vol 4. No 4. April 3, 2014:

April is here, and, finally, so is Spring -- hopefully to stay this time. March was quite a month, with a large helping of new books and several fantastic events, and April is off to a cracking start with a full handful of more new books and another round of can't-miss events, starting today, Thursday April 3, with Lev Grossman at the North Carolina Literary Festival at 7:30 pm, reading at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library Auditorium at NC State's Centennial Campus, and continuing

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The Hardest Part: Alexandra Duncan on Salvage

Posted on 2014-04-02 at 17:01 by montsamu

I first heard about Asheville, NC author Alexandra Duncan back in 2011, when her novella "Rampion" (published in F&SF) starting generating a lot of buzz -- it would go on to be selected by Rich Horton to appear in his annual "Year's Best" anthology for Prime Books. Reading "Rampion", a fairytale-infused historical fiction set in the Caliphate of Al-Andalus, I started following her writing, but... it appears she had something longer in mind, for which some serious waiting would be required. Luckily, I had

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged alexandra duncan, salvage

Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, March 2014: The Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist, Diana Wynne Jones' The Islands of Chaldea, Ken MacLeod's Descent, and Nick Mamatas' The Last Weekend

Posted on 2014-03-28 at 18:21 by montsamu

From the Other Side: March 2014

By Paul Kincaid

Why is it that every time I go to a science fiction party it turns out to be in a cellar bar with a low ceiling and loud music, so I spend all of my time trying to make out what the person I’m talking to has actually said? That’s exactly what happened at the party to announce the shortlist for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award. So I think I heard Ian Waites of NewCon Press tell me that the collection of non-fiction by Adam Roberts, for which I have written

Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged arthur c clarke award, descent, diana wynn jones, ken macleod, nick mamatas, paul kincaid, the islands of chaldea, the last weekend, ursula jones

Local book release: Daughter of Chaos by Jen McConnel

Posted on 2014-03-25 at 15:23 by montsamu

I've had the pleasure of publishing Durham author Jen McConnel's poem "Enchantment" way back in Issue #4 (hat tip as always to poetry editor Dan Campbell) and in watching her career grow and bloom in the years since and let me tell you, she's currently on quite the upswing. Her September 2012 "New Adult" novel The Burning of Isobel Key was republished as The Secret of Isobel Key in December by Bloomsbury Spark (and produced in audio by Audible for Bloomsbury), and today she starts a new series with Daughter

Posted in Release Day | Tagged jen mcconnel

Monday Musings: N.K. Jemisin in Statesville this weekend, and Lev Grossman and Junot Diaz kick of the NC Literary Festival next week!

Posted on 2014-03-24 at 19:52 by montsamu

Monday, March 24, 2014: Via regular contributors The Exploding Spaceship comes news that Statesville, NC's Mitchell Community College will host award-winning author N.K. Jemisin this weekend (Friday March 28 and Saturday March 29) as part of the 2014 Doris Betts Spring Writers Festival. There are author readings, (free!) writing workshops, and more. If you're in the Piedmont area, check it out!

Meanwhile, here in the Triangle we're getting very ready and very excited about next week's North Carolina

Posted in Friday Quick Updates | Tagged flyer, junot diaz, lev grossman, nc lit fest, nk jemisin

News: Flyleaf Books to host Ann VanderMeer on Monday, April 21!

Posted on 2014-03-20 at 02:11 by montsamu

Fantastic news, everyone! On Monday, April 21, Chapel Hill's Flyleaf Books hosts award-winning editor Ann VanderMeer for a discussion of her just-released anthology The Time Traveler's Almanac. Published last year in the UK, this new definitive anthology of time travel stories gets a fantastic US release from Tor; read the preface at The Onion’s AV Club and Jason Sheehan’s review for NPR. And check out this cover:

"The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel

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