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Today (Sunday) at Dragon*Con!

Posted on 2011-09-04 at 08:30 by montsamu

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

SUNDAY AT DRAGON*CON:


10:00am Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (AUTO)
11:30am Mur Lafferty (POD)
11:30am Gail Z. Martin (POD)

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Local events flyer for Fall 2011: version 4!

Posted on 2011-09-03 at 18:48 by montsamu

With the Lev Grossman event behind us (and it was awesome!) it's really time to set our sights on the fall events. Things get started with a bang this week with readings from Lewis Shiner and NY Times bestselling author Terry Brooks. Please! Help spread the word about these events by printing, posting, and otherwise distributing this flyer!

http://www.box.net/embed/688ys0b0h48ymem.swf

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Today (Saturday) at Dragon*Con!

Posted on 2011-09-03 at 08:30 by montsamu

You know the drill by now. Though you should have a stack of flyers you're handing out, and likely have this stuff memorized and/or tattooed:

SATURDAY AT DRAGON*CON:

11:30am Mur Lafferty (READ)
11:30am Mark L. Van Name (READ)
1:00pm Clay and Susan Griffith (Plotting or Plodding)
1:00pm Erin Hoffman (PYR dealer room signing)
1:00pm Mark L. Van Name (The Missing Volume dealer room signing)
1:00pm Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (ALT)
2:30pm The Baen Books Traveling Road Show (Hyatt)
4:00pm Mark L. Van Name (SFLIT)
4:30pm

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Two Wednesday Sep 7 events of note:

Posted on 2011-09-02 at 18:34 by montsamu

Wednesday September 7 will be a very good day to be able to be in two places at once.

7 PM: Lewis Shiner at The Regulator Bookshop. "Join us for a thrilling night of tango with local author Lewis Shiner who will read from his new novel Dark Tangos. Live tango dancers will perform following the reading. Robert 'Beto' Cavenaugh who relocates to Buenos Aires and spends his nights dancing tango meets mysterious Elena who exposes him to the brutal echoes of Argentina’s shameful past. "Shiner’s latest delivers its

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Today (Friday) at Dragon*Con!

Posted on 2011-09-02 at 14:13 by montsamu

But wait, you say. Sam, you're not even going to DragonCon.

Well, you're right. But that doesn't stop me wanting to live vicariously through your posts and tweets and such. So! Though I'm sure you have your flyer printed out (and a stack to hand around, right?) here is...

FRIDAY AT DRAGONCON:

1:00pm Gail Z. Martin (WRIT)
3:30pm Clay and Susan Griffith (PYR dealer room signing)
4:00pm Lou Anders (WRIT)
5:30pm Mur Lafferty (AUTO)
5:30pm Jason Morningstar (GAME)
5:30pm Gray Rinehart (Princess Alethea Kontis's

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Bull Spec Dragon*Con Flyers

Posted on 2011-09-01 at 21:24 by montsamu

Happy trails, all you fine folks heading to Dragon*Con! Here are some flyers which will help you keep track of the Bull Spec contributors and interviewees and such, though there's more even than I had room to list:


COLOR: http://www.box.net/embed/sp7o7gurcgqkx6u.swf

B/W: http://www.box.net/embed/nzfzl521mdrldqy.swf

So please! Print, post, share! And come by The Missing Volume in the Marriot Marquis dealer room to check out a copy of Bull Spec!

edit: Yipes! I forgot a big event which is happening tomorrow

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Lev Grossman: The Other Introduction.

Posted on 2011-08-31 at 16:34 by montsamu

Yesterday afternoon, Flyleaf Books let me know that I'd have the honor of introducing Lev Grossman at his reading. I put together some thoughts (ok, a lot of thoughts) and cut things down to an appropriate slice of time, and then realized... the introduction was sounding a lot like it was about me: my response to the book, my happiness that his tour included a stop in the area, my fondness for Grossman's criticism and writing not just in his novels but in his essays and reviews and (particularly

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Bull Spec local events e-mailing list: September 2011

Posted on 2011-08-26 at 19:31 by montsamu

Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1, 2011:

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Blurbing the blurbs.

Posted on 2011-08-17 at 19:24 by montsamu

Well, it's not terribly often I run into books with local authors as the source of short reviewer quotes, a.k.a. "blurbs". But recently I've seen not one but two such books.

The first is Southern Gods by debut novelist John Hornor Jacobs, out from Night Shade Books both in print and (from Brilliance Audio) in audio:

Recent World War II veteran Bull Ingram is working as muscle when a Memphis DJ hires him to find Ramblin' John Hastur. The mysterious blues man's dark

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WorldCon fun! Just not for Sam.

Posted on 2011-08-16 at 21:07 by montsamu

Well, I see a long contrail (ha ha) of "See you guys, I'm off to World Con!" so it must be that time again: time to live vicariously through others, and try to get the word out about Bull Spec. First, I hope you all have a great time. No, really, I do.

Secondly, some flyers! I've lately enjoyed peeking at the participants lists of these conventions and noting how many folks can be found in the pages of Bull Spec. This time, I spy, with my little eye, 10 -- count 'em, TEN! -- such folks at World Con:

• Lou

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