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The Hardest Part: Jay Posey on Three

Posted on 2013-07-31 at 19:56 by montsamu

Durham author Jay Posey has written stories for a living for a while now; Tom Clancy gets his name on the cover of the game box, though. Posey got his own cover treatment yesterday, however, as his debut novel, the post-apocalyptic-set Three, the first in his Legends of the Duskwalker series set to be published by Angry Robot Books. Here, Posey writes about the help and encouragement along the way to getting past attacks of self-doubt and all the way to "The End".

By Jay Posey:

It probably comes as

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Friday Quick Updates: Shared Worlds authors in Asheville this weekend; Jay Posey (Tuesday); and next weekend's Bull Spec Summer Speculative Fiction Reading!

Posted on 2013-07-26 at 21:14 by montsamu

Friday, July 26, 2013: For those following along from nearer Asheville and points in the western half of North Carolina (and further) there's a spectacular event this weekend (Sunday, July 28) at Asheville's Malaprop's Bookstore, featuring six sf/f authors: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Shared Worlds Reading & Signing. Beginning at 3 pm, the event features Karen Lord, Robert V.S. Redick, Will Hindmarch, Nathan Ballingrud, and Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.

If those names seem familiar, which they should!, it's nearly the

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Reminder: Jenna Black at Flyleaf Books and Lydia Netzer at Quail Ridge Books tomorrow, Thursday, July 25

Posted on 2013-07-24 at 19:53 by montsamu

As I mentioned in the last Friday Quick Update, tomorrow (Thursday, July 25) sees two readings of note in the Triangle area; pick one and head out! (Because picking both would be hard...)

First up, at 7 pm: Flyleaf Books hosts local author Jenna Black for her new novel Replica, first in a new series set in near-future NYC. More info: http://www.flyleafbooks.com/event/jenna-black-discusses-replica

Next, at 7:30 pm: Quail Ridge Books hosts author Lydia Netzer for the new paperback edition of Shine Shine

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Friday Quick Updates: new and upcoming events including Jenna Black, Lydia Netzer, Jay Posey, and (in September) Susan Cooper

Posted on 2013-07-19 at 20:57 by montsamu

Friday July 19, 2013:

First off, as I've updated the July Newsletter with them, here are some newly-added events coming up in the next few months. And no, it's not a typo that one of the events is for one Susan Cooper, author of the beloved children's fantasy series The Dark is Rising.

NEW-NEW EVENTS:

• July 25 (Thursday) 7:30 pm — Quail Ridge Books hosts author Lydia Netzer for the new paperback edition of Shine Shine Shine. More info: http://www.quailridgebooks.com/event/lydia-netzer-shine-shine-shine

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The Hardest Part: Danny Birt on Ending

Posted on 2013-07-18 at 17:54 by montsamu

When I asked NC author Danny Birt about the hardest part of writing Ending, the recently-published fourth book in his Laurian Pentology, I thought I might get an essay about the tumultuous landscape of publishing that led to both a delay between the book and its predecessor and to a new publisher, Dark Quest Books. Instead, Danny writes here about stepping beyond "write what you know" (which for Danny certainly includes a playful sense of humor, revealed in his "Rum and Runestones" short stories, his YA

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Friday Quick Updates: Ehmm Theory, Urban Garden Performing Arts, Jenna Black, Jay Posey, and in just a few short weeks the Bull Spec summer speculative fiction event!

Posted on 2013-07-12 at 17:17 by montsamu

Friday July 12: Hopefully a bunch of you turned out for Alex Bledsoe at Flyleaf Books on Wednesday, and Stephen Kiernan at Quail Ridge Books yesterday! Before I get onto the upcoming events (Saturday's Ehmm Theory signing at Ultimate Comics being the next), some quick local news bits:

• Monica Byrne's "What Every Girl Should Know" to play the NYC Fringe Festival as reported by IndyWeek's Byron Woods: "After its award-winning premiere in 2012, WHAT EVERY GIRL SHOULD KNOW, Durham playwright Monica Byrne’s

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Reminder: Flyleaf Books hosts Alex Bledsoe for Wisp of a Thing tomorrow (Wednesday, July 10) at 7 pm

Posted on 2013-07-10 at 02:27 by montsamu

Author Alex Bledsoe grew up in Tennessee, and the Smokey Mountains on the Tennessee / North Carolina border are the setting for his "Tufa" novels: "No one knows where the Tufa came from, or how they ended up in the mountains of East Tennessee.  When the first Europeans came to the Smoky Mountains, the Tufa were already there.  Dark-haired and enigmatic, they live quietly in the hills and valleys of Cloud County, their origins lost to history.  But there are clues in their music, hidden in the songs they

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Sam on Carolina Book Beat, Monday July 8 at 10 AM

Posted on 2013-07-08 at 01:57 by montsamu

Whew! Sorry for a lot of radio silence from me of late; bought a new house (don't worry -- it's still in Durham of course) and took a long-planned family vacation, which with two kids running amok was not particularly restful, and then have been dealing with moving and then cleaning and fixing up the old house for sale, etc. I know I have a ton of emails and Tweets and other various messages (luckily no subpoenas of yet) to get to and respond to. So much to do! But first...

I was on Carolina Book Beat to

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Comics events updates

Posted on 2013-06-29 at 12:58 by montsamu

The Chapel Hill Comics event with Lisa Hanawalt for My Dirty Dumb Eyes originally scheduled for Saturday June 29 has been postponed until the fall. But! They've added a Saturday, July 6 My Little Pony comic event with cover artist Elena "Yamino" Barbarich.

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July Newsletter: ConTemporal, Writers of the Future, Alex Bledsoe, Ehmm Theory, Jenna Black, and Can't Stop the Serenity

Posted on 2013-06-28 at 03:13 by montsamu

Vol 3. No 7. June 27, 2013:

I'm sneaking this into the end of June because tomorrow (Friday, June 28) has two noteworthy events to mention before we turn the page into the events of July:

• ConTemporal, the Triangle-area-based Steampunk-centered multi-disciplinary convention for authors, artists, makers, costumers, musicians, gamers, fans, and more, opens its second year, at the North Raleigh Hilton. The "Port" opens at 3 pm, with programming getting started at 5 pm and continuing all weekend.
• Chapel Hill

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