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An apology to my contributors, readers, and advertisers on the lateness of issue #7.

Posted on 2012-01-16 at 19:58 by montsamu

Well, there's really no hiding it, or "smoothing" it out this time. Issue #7 is no longer the "Winter 2011-12" issue; it's the "Spring 2012" issue. I want to offer (again) my apologies to my patient readers, my forgiving advertisers, and my contributors that their works, planned for 2011, are now coming in early 2012 instead. Additionally, an apology to the "2011 year in review" editors who essentially wasted their time considering these stories for 2011, some of which I also included in my yearly Pushcart

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Heading to illogicon, Jan 13-15!

Posted on 2012-01-13 at 15:52 by montsamu

Well, it's time to pack up magazines and the crate that has become the traveling road show for "the year in local sf" and head to illogiCon, this weekend (Friday through Sunday, Jan 13-15) in Raleigh. I don't have any panels today, but I'm moderating an "Ethics in SF" panel tomorrow (Saturday) with Joe Haldeman, John Kessel, Kij Johnson, and Gray Rinehart, and two panels on Sunday: one on the year's best in sf, the other on local authors. I think I'm ready. Congrats to Warren Buff and company on putting

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Wake Forest author Michael Jasper is web serializing his novel A Sudden Outbreak of Magic!

Posted on 2012-01-13 at 15:31 by montsamu

Starting with the Prologue today, Wake Forest author Michael Jasper (Gunning for the Buddha, A Gathering of Doorways, The Wannoshay Cycle, ...) is web serializing his novel A Sudden Outbreak of Magic:

photo by Andy Castro

"So here’s the story…  

Kelley and her twin brother Jeroan just moved to Dubuque, Iowa. Their parents uprooted them from their home in Chicago after learning that Jeroan had gotten mixed up with a gang. As the only black girl in her grade, Kelley is not pleased about the move. 

One cold

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Hugo etc. pandering, 2012 edition:

Posted on 2012-01-05 at 21:43 by montsamu

First, the holiday book guide acts as a very good stand-in for repeating a lot of the book-related suggestions -- no, seriously, go there and look at the long list of books which were published by local and regional authors this year, and see if one or more of them doesn't remind you of one of your favorite reads this year, ranging from the Best Novel category (The Rift Walker, Out of the Waters, Pilgrim of the Sky, The Lost Gate, Miserere, Never Knew Another, Briarpatch, Germline, The Sworn, on and on

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Bull Spec local events e-mailing list: January 2012

Posted on 2012-01-04 at 20:03 by montsamu

Vol 2. No. 1, January 4, 2012:


Welcome to the January 2012 events newsletter from Bull Spec! I hope a lot of you made it out to see Hillary Jordan, John Kessel, and Cassandra Clare last month, and there are a ton of new events, including one tomorrow night (JL Hilton at Tir Na Nog, Thursday) and another in two days (Marissa Meyer at Flylear Books, Friday) and several more in January, so look below and don't miss them. And don't forget mid-January's illogiCon which is bringing Joe Haldeman back to the

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Regional author book release: Faith Hunter's Raven Cursed (Jane Yellowrock, Book 4)

Posted on 2012-01-03 at 16:02 by montsamu

Faith Hunter's Raven Cursed is out today, the fourth book in her Jane Yellowrock series of novels:

The vampires of Asheville, North Carolina, want to establish their own clan, but since they owe loyalty to the Master Vampire of New Orleans they must work out the terms with him. To come up with an equitable solution, he sends an envoy with the best bodyguard blood money can buy: Jane Yellowrock. 

But when a group of local campers are attacked by something

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Local author release day: Stellarnet Rebel by J. L. Hilton and Darkness Falls by Cate Tiernan

Posted on 2012-01-02 at 20:48 by montsamu

Congratulations are due to local author J.L. Hilton, whose debut novel, Stellarnet Rebel, is out today from Carina Press!

Welcome to Asteria, a corporate-owned, deep-space colony populated with refugees, criminals and obsessive online gamers. Genny O'Riordan has shifted in from Earth determined to find a story that will break her blog into the Stellarnet Top 100, and even better - expose the degradation of the colony's denizens.

Duin is an alien - a Glin - a hero of a past revolution against the Glin royal

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It's beginning to look a lot like an issue.

Posted on 2011-12-26 at 05:07 by montsamu

Same as last year's year-end issue, it looks like a very late December (say... 30? 31?) publication date for issue #7. About two months later than I'd have liked, but it's been worth the wait. Here are the cut-and-paste mostly unformatted contents:

Cover Art
Gearaffes Angi Shearstone

Fiction
# The Gearaffe Who Didn’t Tick D. K. Thompson illustrated by Angi Shearstone
# Fish Eyes Natania Barron illustrated by Brigid Ashwood
# Complications of the Flesh Jason Erik Lundberg illustrated by Jason Strutz
# Inseperables’

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Closed to fiction submissions until (at least) Friday, January 13

Posted on 2011-12-09 at 05:18 by montsamu

If you e-mail a submission to submissions@bullspec.com effective now, you'll get the following auto reply:

Thank you for sending a story to Bull Spec, but we are currently closed to fiction submissions, as of 1 AM EST, Friday December 9, 2011. We may not have updated the website or notified Duotrope or Ralan's, etc. but as we need to focus on reading and responding to the stories we have, we are returning this one unread. We hope to re-open to fiction submissions on Friday, January 13, 2012, but may remain

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Bull Spec local events e-mailing list: December 2011

Posted on 2011-12-05 at 20:35 by montsamu

Vol 1. No. 7, December 5, 2011:


Welcome to the December events newsletter from Bull Spec! I hope a lot of you made it out to see L.E. Modesitt, Jr. and Mary Doria Russell last month, and there are a ton of new events, including one tonight and several in early January, so look below and don't miss them. And there are several upcoming events to remind you of as well, from this Wednesday's John Kessel "Kafkaesque" event, to mid-January's illogiCon which is bringing Joe Haldeman back to the Triangle.


Meanwhile:

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