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Posted on 2013-05-17 at 15:34 by montsamu

Friday Quick Updates for May 17, 2013:

Two events tomorrow (Saturday), the first for writers, at 10 am, as Hillsborough author James Maxey will be teaching a class at the Orange County Library in Hillsboroug from 10 til noon called “Behind Every Great Book is a Great Rewrite.” From Maxey: “It’s going to start from the assumption that you’ve managed to write the first draft of a story or novel, and focus on the things that you should look to fix in later drafts”.

Also tomorrow (Saturday) Chapel Hill Comics

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Friday Quick Updates: Some miscelleaneous news, and events TODAY with Kelly Sue DeConnick and Mary Robinette Kowal

Posted on 2013-05-10 at 16:15 by montsamu

Friday updates for May 10, 2013:

First, there's two new Exploding Spaceship reviews that went up yesterday:

Second, some other tidbits:

Gabriel Dunston has a new podcast, "Getting Paid: a periodic podcast for creative professionals who want their living to be made off of

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May Newsletter: Free Comic Book Day, Daniel Wallace, Mary Robinette Kowal, John Scalzi, and Mur Lafferty

Posted on 2013-05-03 at 18:55 by montsamu

Vol 3. No 5. May 3, 2013:

Well, it finally happened, the new issue of Bull Spec is actually out in the world! Some of the more remote bookstores I haven't quite gotten to yet, but subscriber mailings are in USPS's hands and quite a few Triangle bookstores are "in stock". It'll be a few days yet on the PDF edition, but look for an announcement on the website when it's available. I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed seeing so many supporters at the launch at Atomic Empire as part of NC Speculative Fiction Night

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The Hardest Part: Athena Andreadis on The Other Half of the Sky

Posted on 2013-05-01 at 14:23 by montsamu

There's an awful lot of work that goes into an anthology, from conception, to soliciting and editing stories, and all manner of strange things, I's to dot and T's to cross, fonts to choose and cover art to go over again and again. Athena Andreadis, author of the poems "Spacetime Geodesics" which appeared in Bull Spec #6 and "Night Patrol" which appeared in Bull Spec #7, writes about the hardest part of putting together the just-released anthology The Other Half of the Sky.

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Bull Spec "alumni" news

Posted on 2013-04-20 at 02:07 by montsamu

I'm always keeping tabs on the authors and poets and critics and artists I've been lucky enough to have published along the way so far, so here's four bits of Bull Spec "Alumni" news:

C.S. Fuqua ("Rise Up", Bull Spec #1) interviewed by Nerine Dorman on "This is my World"
Sofia Samatar ("The Year of Disasters", Bull Spec #7) has a new book just out, A Stranger in Olondria (Small Beer Press); she recently wrote an essay about the Big Idea behind her novel
Author James Maxey ("Tornado of Sparks", Bull Spec

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Thursday Quick Updates: Symposiums, Comics Fest, New Events, and the Bull Spec #8 Launch Party!

Posted on 2013-04-18 at 14:41 by montsamu

I'm sneaking the "Friday Quick Updates" in a day early to get the word out about a fascinating-looking symposium at Duke University which starts today, "Community & Emergent Order in non-state spaces", which features some interesting persons (Kim Stanley Robinson, David Friedman, Paul Cantor) and topics ("Vinge, Heinlein, the Sagas, and Me", "The Future Is My State"). All talks are free and open to the public, for more info check the events listing below the pictures. This isn't the only symposium, as NCSU

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April Newsletter: Tony Daniel and David Drake, and NC Speculative Fiction Night with Bull Spec #8 Launch

Posted on 2013-04-04 at 19:09 by montsamu

Vol 3. No 4. April 4, 2013:

There is a lot to get to in this newsletter, from announcements, to local author publication notes, to new events, so: right to it, then!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

April 23 (Tuesday) 7 pm — Durham’s Atomic Empire (formerly Sci-Fi Genre Comics and Games) hosts a World Book Night / NC Speculative Fiction Night / Bull Spec #8 Launch Party event. Special Guests Rich Dansky, Steve Long, Justin Achilli, and Matthew Ross. Bull Spec Magazine Contributors Gwendolyn Clare, Rich Matrunick, Brenda

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Announcement: The third annual Bull Spec summer speculative fiction event!

Posted on 2013-03-29 at 19:26 by montsamu

March 29, 2013, DURHAM, NC -- Bull Spec is delighted to announce its third annual summer speculative fiction event, to be held Saturday August 3, 2013 at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC from 7 to 9 pm. The event series once again hosts a selection of Wofford College's Shared Worlds Teen Writing Summer Camp visiting writers, headlined by Mythopoeic and William L. Crawford Award-winning author Karen Lord -- who is traveling from Barbados -- and including Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, Will Hindmarch

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Friday Quick Updates: Ursula Vernon tonight! Then: ConTemporal at UNC-TV, Jeaniene Frost, and Richard Case

Posted on 2013-03-22 at 19:37 by montsamu

Before I get to the imminently forthcoming events, I have to take a quick moment to thank Jaym Gates again for putting the April 23 World Book Night / NC Speculative Fiction Night / Bull Spec Launch Party extravaganza together. It's going to be a great lineup of game designers and writers, authors, translators, and a huge crew of Bull Spec #8 contributors, and I hope a whole lot of you (and your friends and random strangers!) help make it a great night. (And it will be good to see Jaym again after far too

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Announcement: World Book Night / NC Speculative Fiction Night / Bull Spec #8 Launch Party!

Posted on 2013-03-22 at 02:14 by montsamu

North Carolina Speculative Fiction Night

Presented by Bull Spec Magazine

Hosted by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn and Jaym Gates

Celebrating World Book Night, North Carolina Authors, and Bull Spec Magazine

Atomic Empire, 7pm, Tuesday, April 23, 2013

3400 Westgate Drive, Suite 14B

Durham, NC 27707

Special Guests

Rich Dansky, Steve Long, Justin Achilli, Matthew Ross

Bull Spec Magazine Contributors

Gwendolyn Clare, Rich Matrunick, Brenda Kalt, Peter Wood and Paul Celmer, Alice Holleman