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Posted on 2014-03-19 at 19:49 by montsamu

Durham author Mur Lafferty already had a handful and a half novels out in the world when, last year, she both had her "debut" novel published by Orbit, The Shambling Guide to New York City, and she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the Hugo Awards at the World Science Fiction Convention. Not a bad year, eh? Still, after all the books and the stories, she had to go back to the drawing board -- again and again -- to get a particular plot point right for book 2 in her Shambling Guides

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged mur lafferty

Friday Quick Updates: Baen audio drama casting; H.G. Wells panel rescheduled; NC Lit Fest schedule; and upcoming events including Jenna Black and Kristen Simmons

Posted on 2014-03-14 at 17:48 by montsamu

Friday, March 14, 2014: Happy Friday everyone! There are some fun activities for teens and kids this weekend (a Divergent fan party on Saturday, Richard Peck's The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail on Sunday), ahead of a three-author YA event at Flyleaf Books on Monday with Kristen Simmons, Mindee Arnett, and Durham's Jenna Black, whose latest novel Resistance was just published Tuesday by Tor Teen, a follow-on to last year's Replica.

Also this weekend (Saturday March 15 and Monday March 17), Wake

Posted in Friday Quick Updates

Coming to Town: Kim Harrison for The Undead Pool

Posted on 2014-03-07 at 14:42 by montsamu

In 2004, HarperTorch published Dead Witch Walking, and Kim Harrison's urban fantasy "Hollows" series has since grown into a best-selling mainstay. In late February, HarperVoyager published book 12, The Undead Pool, in the continuing adventures of witch and day-walking demon Rachel Morgan, and Harrison was back on tour. As did last year's tour for Ever After, this year's tour brings her back to Quail Ridge Books tonight (Friday, March 7) at 7:30 pm. Harrison was kind enough to take some time in the middle of

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

March Newsletter: Margaret Killjoy, Mur Lafferty, Kim Harrison, The Manly Wade Wellman Award opens for nominations, and (in April) the NC Literary Festival

Posted on 2014-03-04 at 20:05 by montsamu

Vol 4. No 3. March 4, 2014:

Welcome, a bit belatedly, to March! The most recent Friday "Quick" Update has so much info that I don't want to swamp this newsletter in repeating all of it, but in short it covers some new content at bullspec.com (new The Hardest Part essays, Coming to Town interviews, Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side column on British sf, and the latest The Exploding Spaceship reviews column) as well as some new books (Allen L. Wold just published a new collection A Closet for a Dragon: and

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Coming to Town: Margaret Killjoy for A Country of Ghosts

Posted on 2014-03-04 at 13:47 by montsamu

I have only myself to blame, but I only heard about Margaret Killjoy's forthcoming anarchist utopian novel A Country of Ghosts late last week and only over the weekend about his event tonight. Still, Killjoy, the founder of SteamPunk Magazine, co-editor of the essay anthology We Are Many: Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation, and the author of the choose-your-own-adventure What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower, found some last-minute time to answer a few questions about his book

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged a country of ghosts, combustion books, internationalist books, margaret killjoy

Friday Quick Updates: Allen Wold's new collection, H.G. Wells panel, Mur Lafferty, NC Literary Festival adds Lev Grossman and Nathan Ballingrud, and (tons) more

Posted on 2014-02-28 at 21:31 by montsamu

Friday, February 28, 2014: Wow. There's a lot to tell you guys about since my last news roundup 11 days ago. So much I hardly know where to begin! Let's start with what's new at bullspec.com:

Posted in Friday Quick Updates

Whispersync Deal Roundup: Night Shade Books, the Baen Free Library, and The Shambling Guide to New York City

Posted on 2014-02-27 at 19:28 by montsamu

There's actually a significantly large number of local and regional authors in this roundup of ebook/audiobook deals:

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Paul Kincaid’s From the Other Side, February 2014: Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, Dave Hutchinson's Europe in Autumn, and The Kitschies

Posted on 2014-02-27 at 03:09 by montsamu

From the Other Side: February 2014

By Paul Kincaid

So the torrential rain and apocalyptic flooding we’ve experienced in much of Britain over the last couple of months meant that I wasn’t able to get to the Kitschies Award Ceremony, though on the up side this at least spared me the sight of whatever garish outfit Nick Harkaway had chosen to wear. The Red Tentacle for best novel went to Ruth Ozeki for A Tale for the Time Being, and for a novel that has generally had more mainstream recognition, including

Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged annihilation, dave hutchinson, europe in autumn, jeff vandermeer, paul kincaid, the kitschies

The Hardest Part: Jeremy Whitley on My Little Pony: Friends Forever

Posted on 2014-02-20 at 14:50 by montsamu

When I started looking more seriously into the local comic scene in 2009 and 2010, I found some big names: Tommy Lee Edwards, Scott Hampton, Richard Case. And, thanks to Ultimate Comics' Al Gill handing me a copy of The Order of Dagonet #1 I have been able to follow comics writer Jeremy Whitley for a few years now, through the original Dagonet run from Whitley and artist Jason Strutz's Firetower Studios, the re-issue of the comic from Action Labs, and a similar path for Whitley's next project, the Eisner

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged jeremy whitley, my little pony, princeless

Coming to Town: Megan Shepherd for Her Dark Curiosity and "The Lovestruck Tour"

Posted on 2014-02-18 at 15:26 by montsamu

The Lovestruck Tour features four YA authors -- Megan Hansen Shepherd (Her Dark Curiosity), Megan Miranda (Fracture), Kasie West (Pivot Point), and Robin Constantine (The Promise of Amazing) -- and five bookstores: Asheville's Malaprop's Bookstore on Wednesday, February 19 at 7 pm; Raleigh's Quail Ridge Books on Thursday at 7 pm; Chapel Hill's Flyleaf Books on Friday at 7 pm; Greenville, South Carolina's Fiction Addiction on Saturday at 4 pm; and Decatur, Georgia's Little Shop of Stories on Monday, February

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged her dark curiuosity, megan shepherd, stephen messer, the lovestruck tour, the madman's daughter

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