Page 21 of posts by: montsamu

Friday Quick Updates, Monday edition: Alice Hoffman, Megan Shepherd and The Lovestruck Tour, and the Nevermore Film Festival

Posted on 2014-02-17 at 15:51 by montsamu

Monday, February 17, 2014: Tonight sees the first of two events with magical realist Alice Hoffman in the Triangle, ahead of Megan Shepherd, Megan Miranda, and the rest of "The Lovestruck Tour" later this week. Hoffman's new book is The Museum of Extraordinary Things, set in the New York City of the early 1900s, and after launching the book at the Savannah Book Festival this past weekend she's at Raleigh's Quail Ridge Books tonight at 7:30 pm, ahead of a second event in the area at McIntyre's Books in

Posted in Friday Quick Updates | Tagged alice hoffman, flyleaf books, karen russell, malaprops bookstore, megan miranda, megan shepherd, mysticon, nevermore, quail ridge books

Coming to Town, post-visit edition: Deborah Johnson for The Secret of Magic

Posted on 2014-02-14 at 17:34 by montsamu

Mississippi author Deborah Johnson has spent the last few weeks on tour, since the publication of her second novel, The Secret of Magic, in print and ebook from Amy Einhorn Books. From Mississippi, through Alabama, Georgia, and this weekend in western North Carolina with events in Boone and Winston-Salem, leading up to two events this past week in the Triangle Area: Monday night at Quail Ridge Books at 7:30 pm and Tuesday night at Flyleaf Books at 7 pm. The novel is an historical fiction set in Mississippi

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged deborah johnson, flyleaf books, quail ridge books, the secret of magic

The Latest from Carolina Book Beat

Posted on 2014-02-10 at 16:43 by montsamu

The podcast for my talk a week ago with Tommy Lee Edwards on Carolina Book Beat is up!

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Friday Quick Updates: Mur Lafferty tomorrow, Deborah Johnson next week, a Book Club Moveable Feast this weekend, Jeremy L.C. Jones writes about Manly Wade Wellman, and more

Posted on 2014-02-07 at 16:07 by montsamu

Friday, February 7, 2014: Three "NEW-NEW" events this weekend, added to the calendar since sending the February newsletter barely a week ago, including Mur Lafferty's Durham County Library (Southwest Regional Library) event on Saturday and a "Bookmarks Book Club Moveable Feast" event on Sunday in Winston-Salem, for which very, very limited tickets remain. Several more new events were added further down the line, including the 15th Nevermore Film Festival at The Carolina Theatre of Durham on Feb 21-23 and a

Posted in Friday Quick Updates | Tagged deborah johnson, jeremy lc jones, mur lafferty

The Hardest Part: Dario Ciriello on Sutherland's Rules

Posted on 2014-02-05 at 20:39 by montsamu

I can't quite place how I digitally ran into Dario Ciriello back in 2009. Probably it was that I had a silly idea that I would be a writer, thinking that the mess I was working on was looking like it would be a novella, and looking around to see who published at that length. Enter Panverse One, edited by Ciriello, which blew me away. An all-novella anthology (the first of three, so far, all excellent) with fantastic, varied stories, a beautiful cover, and a well-produced physical book, introducing me to a

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged dario ciriello, panverse publishing, sutherland's rules

Carolina Book Beat preview: Tommy Lee Edwards

Posted on 2014-02-03 at 04:38 by montsamu

So tomorrow morning (Monday, Feb 3, 10 AM) I'll be talking with illustrator Tommy Lee Edwards on Carolina Book Beat on WCOM-FM. It's the first time we've tried an illustrator as a guest, so I wanted to put up some links to visual aids here before the show.

We're mainly planning to talk about his forthcoming Vandroid project(s) which include a short film [with trailer], a soundtrack, and, set for a late February release, the first of five monthly issues of a comic book series. What is Vandroid? Well... it

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged carolina book beat, tommy lee edwards

Feburary newsletter: Wendy Webb, Sheila Turnage, Deborah Johnson, Alice Hoffman, Megan Shepherd, MystiCon, TV deals, new and forthcoming books, literary lineups, and more

Posted on 2014-01-31 at 20:20 by montsamu

Vol 4. No 2. January 31, 2014:

Well, January was what one might call a good month. RDU-based convention illogiCon welcomed Mary Robinette Kowal, Lawrence M. Schoen, Laura Anne Gilman, Gail Z. Martin, Misty Massey and Ed Schubert, and many more to town, along with fantastic participation from Triangle-area authors and fans; William Shatner rocked the house with his one-man show; Quail Ridge Books hosted Carrie Vaughn for Dreams of the Golden Age; and Jeaniene Frost closed out January with the launch of her

Posted in newsletter | Tagged jeaniene frost, mysticon, paul kincaid, peter wood, richard dansky, wendy webb

The Hardest Part: Lisa Shearin on The Grendel Affair

Posted on 2014-01-30 at 03:09 by montsamu

I first met Lisa Shearin at a 5-author science fiction and fantasy panel at the Cary Barnes & Noble in 2010, hearing about her Raine Benares adventure fantasy series and feeling a bit overwhelmed -- here's an Ace-published author with 4 (at that time, since the series has grown to 6) books and I had a lot of catching up to do. But now Shearin has started a new series with the release of The Grendel Affair, the first book in her SPI Files series, giving old fans a new adventure to begin and new fans an

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged lisa shearin, the grendel affair

Coming to Town: Wendy Webb for The Vanishing, interviewed by Richard Dansky

Posted on 2014-01-28 at 16:33 by montsamu

Interview by Richard Dansky:

Think “Gothic” and you might not immediately think Minnesota, but Wendy Webb is working on changing that perception. Building on a writing career that began as a journalist for a Twin Cities arts & entertainment weekly, she’s published three critically and commercially successful gothic novels set in her home state. The third, The Vanishing [ebook], was released in January 2014, and in support of the book, she’s visiting Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill on Saturday, February 1st

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged flyleaf books, gothic, richard dansky, the vanishing, wendy webb

Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, January 2014: Simon Ings, Adam Roberts, James Smythe, and some awards talk

Posted on 2014-01-27 at 21:17 by montsamu

From the Other Side: January 2014

By Paul Kincaid

I’m going to use this column to talk about some of the things that are happening in science fiction in Britain each month.

January, of course, is not usually a month when publishers roll out their biggest guns, but this year seems to be something of an exception. Gollancz have brought out Wolves by Simon Ings, which I confidently expect to feature on a few best of the year lists come this time next year (I certainly expect it to feature on my list). It is

Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged adam roberts, james smythe, kate atkinson, life after life, mahendra singh, paul kincaid, simon ings, the arthur c clarke award, the echo, the kitschies, twenty trillion leagues under the sea, wolves