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Coming to Town: Emily Croy Barker for The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

Posted on 2013-09-17 at 16:58 by montsamu

Greensboro native and current New Jerseyan Emily Croy Barker has two events in NC this week in support of her debut novel, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic, out earlier this summer from Pamela Dorman Books/Viking. The book garnered significant pre-release praise, from iO9 to Glamour to The Los Angeles Times, including being named to the August Indie Next List -- accompanied by a review from The Regulator Bookshop's Tonie Lilley: “The great thing about Nora, the titular ‘thinking woman,’ is that she

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Friday Quick Updates: The Escapism Film Festival; Brier Creek BN hosts an ebook authors event with Clay and Susan Griffith and Natania Barron; Writer's Day at Flyleaf Books; John Claude Bemis and Stephen Messer; Ursula Vernon; Emily Croy Barker; and Jasper Fforde

Posted on 2013-09-13 at 17:20 by montsamu

Friday September 13, 2013: In lieu of recapping last week, on to today, which sees the first "full day" of The Escapism Film Festival at The Carolina Theatre of Durham -- from the Stargate screening at 2 pm through Starship Troopers at 9:10 -- after a few evenings of double features and ahead of Saturday and Sunday full-day schedules. Also tonight is a multi-author event at the Barnes and Noble of Brier Creek, with (among others) Clay and Susan Griffith and Natania Barron. Tomorrow (Saturday) will be a

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Friday Quick Updates: Mur Lafferty wins John W. Campbell Award; a new Kickstarter anthology featuring local authors; and the latest events updates

Posted on 2013-09-06 at 18:50 by montsamu

Friday Sep 6, 2013: I say it often but it bears repeating again: What a week! In terms of events, after a weekend of comics events we had David Drake launching new novel Monsters of the Earth on Tuesday, and "The Dark is Rising" author Susan Cooper reading on Wednesday. I'd love to see some pictures and hear some reports "from the field" from those who made it out to these events.

And we have so much more than events to talk about this week. As I reported on Facebook and Twitter on Sunday evening, Durham

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Friday Quick Updates: Lisa Hanawalt and Brian Ralph, David Drake, and Susan Cooper

Posted on 2013-08-30 at 15:11 by montsamu

Friday, August 30, 2013: Wow, what a week. Readings from Wilton Barnhardt, Marisha Pessl, Jason Mott, and (last night) Richard Kadrey, and now it seems the area is emptying of its creative critical mass as people head variously to DragonCon (Clay and Susan Griffith, Gail Z. Martin, Natania Barron, Laura Haywood-Cory, AJ Hartley, Gray Rinehart, Glennis LeBlanc, Davey Beauchamp, John Hartness, Jay Requard, and Bull Spec's own The Exploding Spaceship, Gerald and Angela Blackwell, among many others), WorldCon (

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Coming to Town: Jason Mott for The Returned

Posted on 2013-08-26 at 20:09 by montsamu

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September Newsletter: Jason Mott and Richard Kadrey in late August, then David Drake, Susan Cooper, Emily Croy Barker, Jasper Fforde, Robin Sloan, and (in October) Lemony Snicket

Posted on 2013-08-26 at 18:02 by montsamu

Vol 3. No 9. August 26, 2013:

First off, thank you all for making the August 3 Summer Speculative Fiction Reading such a success! To the authors, our hosts Quail Ridge Books and The Raleigh Review, and of course all of you who came out to join in and support the event, ask questions, and talk books and writing into the wee hours: thank you, thank you, thank you! In terms of other events, the middle of August was fairly quiet, though the month did bring new novels from NCSU professor Wilton Barnhardt (Looka

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Coming to Town: Richard Kadrey for Kill City Blues, interviewed by Richard Dansky

Posted on 2013-08-26 at 14:14 by montsamu

[Editor's note: this is the first in a new, hopefully-many-more-where-this-came-from series in which authors and other creators "coming to town" for an event answer a few questions for the website. I hope you enjoy! -Sam]

By Richard Dansky:

Five books into his wildly popular and critically acclaimed Sandman Slim series, Richard Kadrey is a significant voice in urban fantasy. Coming to Flyleaf Books on Thursday August 29th in the wake of Kill City Blues, the fifth book in the Sandman Slim cycle, Kadrey

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Friday Quick Updates: Wilton Barnhardt, AtomiCon, Marisha Pessl, Jeff Parker, Jason Mott, and Richard Kadrey

Posted on 2013-08-23 at 14:39 by montsamu

Friday, August 23: Whew. It's been a bit since I last put together the time to update, and this one's just in time for a packed schedule coming up including new historical fiction satire from NCSU professor Wilton Barnhardt, the first AtomiCon, literary terror from Marisha Pessl, comics writer Jeff Parker, NC author Jason Mott's speculative debut, Richard Kadrey -- and that's before next Friday comes around. Early September will see David Drake launch a new novel, a visit from The Dark is Rising author

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Monday: One last day with Karen Lord in Chapel Hill, and a Games and Narrative Panel at the Durham County Library

Posted on 2013-08-05 at 03:29 by montsamu

It's a big last day in the Triangle area for Barbados author Karen Lord. First up at 10 AM she'll be the main guest on weekly local radio program Carolina Book Beat on WCOM-FM, which broadcasts to Chapel Hill and Carrboro on 103.5 FM, and streams online for pretty much anywhere with an Internet connection.

Then in the afternoon the Chapel Hill Public Library hosts, well to be more specific: "The Friends of the Chapel Hill Public Library host the popular Meet-the-Author Teas. The teas offer the public a

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August Newsletter: Karen Lord, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, and more at the August 3rd Summer Speculative Fiction Reading; Richard Kadrey; and (in early September) Susan Cooper

Posted on 2013-08-01 at 14:32 by montsamu

Vol 3. No 8. August 1, 2013:

August is here, which means after months of planning and preparation the Bull Spec Summer Speculative Fiction Reading is just TWO days away! Award-winning authors and editors, from near (Durham and Asheville) and far (Florida and Barbados) will be coming together for a fantastic event this Saturday, August 3, at Quail Ridge Books, starting at 7 pm. Don't miss it, or you'll miss: Karen Lord, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, Nathan Ballingrud, Robert V.S. Redick, Will Hindmarch, and Mur

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