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Some 'new-new' updates to the newsletter and some other fun bits.

Posted on 2011-10-06 at 01:57 by montsamu

One of the first things which always happens when I send out the monthly events newsletter is: I immediately learn of several things coming up which I didn't include in the newsletter. For the events, I did go back and add them to the October newsletter -- search for "NEW-NEW".

OCTOBER

7 (Friday), 7 pm: Hillsborough author John Claude Bemis reads from The White City, the last book in his The Clockwork Dark trilogy from Random House Books for Young Readers, at The Regulator Bookshop: http://www

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Three bits of local author news.

Posted on 2011-10-04 at 20:37 by montsamu

Three bits of local author news, in order of when I heard about them: Dan Campbell, Michael Jasper, and Richard Dansky.

  1. Dan Campbell's short story "Where Sea and Sky Kiss" was published this morning at Daily Science Fiction. Sent to e-mail subscribers, it will later be posted online, and finally be part of their monthly Kindle edition. I had a chance to read it and if you're a fan of Dan's, well, you won't be disappointed at all. I don't want to give anything away, and I don't have time to figure out

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As of late last night, this is what you'll get if you submit a story:

Posted on 2011-10-02 at 17:55 by montsamu

Thanks for sending a story to Bull Spec! We are indeed open and reading submissions as of October 1, and yours has been received and tagged into the submissions process. Where it goes from here is: a first reader (right now: me) will take a look, and decide whether it looks like something that the fiction editors, Natania Barron and Eric Gregory, should consider. You may hear directly back from a first reader via a form letter in the case of a rejection, or you'll be notified when and if the story is

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Bull Spec local events e-mailing list: October 2011

Posted on 2011-09-30 at 12:13 by montsamu

Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1, 2011:


Welcome to the October events and announcements newsletter from Bull Spec, this time just a day early for two last-minute September 30 reminders. The first is Durham author Stephen Messer's event tonight at 7 PM at Durham's Regulator Bookshop, to launch his new book for young readers, The Death of Yorik Mortwell. The second is the Bull Spec Year 3 Kickstarter fundraiser campaign, which ends today at 5 PM: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/830202652/bull-spec-year-three

Still

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With just about 48 hours to go, the final week push continues with books from David Drake and James Maxey

Posted on 2011-09-28 at 20:15 by montsamu


Two new rewards added to the Bull Spec: Year 3 Kickstarter fundraising campaign today, in this last desperate week of trying to raise as much support as possible.
The first is the 3-volume trade paperback Baen editions of Pittsboro author David Drake's "The Complete Hammer's Slammers", signed of course:

The second is another set of 3 signed books, being Hillsborough author James Maxey's "Dragon Age" trilogy from Solaris Books in mass market paperback, including Bitterwood, Dragonforge, and Dragonseed:
Whew

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The Kickstarter final week push continues with: Mur Lafferty's Afterlife Series

Posted on 2011-09-27 at 15:44 by montsamu


Just added another limited, last-week award to the Bull Spec Year 3 Kickstarter fundraising campaign which ends on Friday: A complete set, signed, of the 5 hardcover Afterlife Series novellas from Durham author and podcaster extraordinaire, Mur Lafferty: Heaven, Hell, Earth, Wasteland, and War. These are beautiful (and darkly funny!) books, with a through-designed cover series that you really, really want:
Whew. Only 10 of these sets are available, and I can't thank Mur enough to allowing me to include them.

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Kickstarter: Final week, final push!

Posted on 2011-09-26 at 16:07 by montsamu


Well, it's Monday of the last week for the Bull Spec: Year 3 Kickstarter fundraiser, which ends Friday at 5 PM EST. To try for some last-ditch, on the fence backers, I've added something to spice this week up: limited to 20 backers, a complete set, signed, of the 6 "definitive edition" trade paperback versions of Raleigh author Lewis Shiner's first six novels: Frontera, Deserted Cities of the Heart, Slam, Glimpses, Say Goodbye, and Black & White:


Tell me that

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Bull Spec: Year 3 Kickstarter -- progress update!

Posted on 2011-09-16 at 19:59 by montsamu

With two weeks left to go, the Bull Spec Year 3 Kickstarter has met its "drop dead or not" goal of $1000! Thank you all SO MUCH for spreading the word and contributing to this effort.


But, really, we need to keep going. One of the scary things about the Kickstarter was trying to pick a number that we thought was achievable -- because if you don't make it, everything goes to $0 and the whole thing is canceled -- but also substantial enough to make it look like actually doing a third year is possible.

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This week's events: The Rift Walker and Dark Tangos, both at Quail Ridge Books

Posted on 2011-09-12 at 21:03 by montsamu

This week sees Raleigh's Quail Ridge Books hosting two events of note:

1. Thursday, September 16, 7:30 pm: Clay and Susan Griffith for The Rift Walker: Vampire Empire, Book 2:


So many links have popped up, but most recently a great review from Paul Goat Allen is a good place to get started. There's a Facebook event by which you can invite your friends, the Quail Ridge event page to send around, and the current fall events flyer to print out and post and hand around as well.

2. Friday, September 17, 7:30 pm

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Today (Monday) at Dragon*Con!

Posted on 2011-09-05 at 08:30 by montsamu

Though yet, yet again you should have a stack of flyers you're handing out, and likely have this stuff memorized and/or tattooed:

MONDAY AT DRAGON*CON:

11:30am Clay and Susan Griffith: Supernatural Alternative History
11:30am Mark Van Name (SFLIT)1pm Gray Rinehart science of zombies panel (‎Hilton)

And the last of the The Missing Volume dealer room signings:

10:30 AM Kevin J Anderson and Rebecca Moesta
2 PM Tim Zahn
That's it! It's the last day! Don't forget to check out of your room on time...
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