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Bull Spec: Year 3, with fiction editors Natania Barron and Eric Gregory.

Posted on 2011-05-24 at 15:24 by montsamu

Wait. Just wait a minute. Year 2 has barely started and I'm talking about Year 3?

I'm talking about Year 3.

When I started Bull Spec, I committed to two years. Thanks to an awful lot of support (and trust, and work) from you all, I think that the magazine should go longer. I haven't been accepting stories, or, in point of fact, reading many stories—if I can't accept them, I shouldn't be reading them, or at least that's my excuse today—and that simply can't go on. So I've been trying to get a plan set which

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Summer is Coming!

Posted on 2011-05-20 at 17:21 by montsamu

With all apologies to George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones: SUMMER IS COMING! From the VanderMeers to Lev Grossman to our own Mighty Mur, there's an awful lot going on.

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A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES LITERARY EXTRAVAGANZA!

Posted on 2011-05-12 at 13:22 by montsamu

A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES LITERARY EXTRAVAGANZA! Join Hugo Award winning editor Ann VanderMeer and World Fantasy Award winner Jeff VanderMeer for a book release party and evening of celebration-give-aways, short humorous readings, and great conversations. Spotlight on the debut of The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (HarperCollins) and definitive guide The Steampunk Bible (Abrams Image), along with Triangle author and Escape Pod editor Mur Lafferty's new fiction series. Special guests of the

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World Fantasy Awards: nomination deadline approaches (May 31)

Posted on 2011-05-09 at 16:43 by montsamu

Did you know that you can still register as a supporting member of World Fantasy Convention 2011 and submit your nominations for best novel, life achievement, and other categories? You can, until May 31. While San Diego's World Fantasy Convention 2011 is full up on attending memberships (they do have a wait list set up) a supporting membership includes nomination privileges. So: go forth, register, and let your voice be heard. And if you were a registered member of last year's convention in Columbus, or the

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Whew. Announcements a-plenty a-go-go!

Posted on 2011-04-15 at 16:36 by montsamu

OK. Here we go, announcements time!

1. Bull Spec #5 is available now! IN PRINT: You can (1) come to Quail Ridge Books tonight for the launch party at 7:30; (2) wait until early next week for the issue to show up on local newsstands; or (3) order (or, you know, subscribe...) print copies at [bullspec.com]. IN PDF: (1) E-bookstores Weightless Books ($) and Wizard's Tower Books (£) both have the issue available, or (2) via the still-funky-clunky e-order page.

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While this isn't the contest news some are waiting for: a new mini-contest!

Posted on 2011-03-25 at 16:07 by montsamu

I'm not the only one who has been amused by John Scalzi's blurb for Sam Sykes just released book BLACK HALO. The blurb reads: "I do not wish Sam Sykes Dead." High praise, indeed! Still, it leaves me wanting more. So: a weeklong mini-contest!

HOW TO ENTER AND WHAT: Either comment here, on the relevant post on Bull Spec's Facebook Page, or reply to the relevant tweet from @bullspec on Twitter, with an even better backhanded evil blurb than Scalzi's. OK, I know, that's impossible. Just do the best you can. The

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From the issue 4 cutting room floor: NC Speculative Fiction Night article by Alex Granados

Posted on 2011-03-22 at 19:03 by montsamu

(Sam's note: Issue 4 grew from 64 to 68 pages, and still I couldn't get everything in. Some things moved onto the upcoming issue 5, but some things were of a more time-sensitive nature and were left, more or less, on the cutting room floor. Here's one, an article on the November 11, 2010 "NC Speculative Fiction Night", by Alex Granados.)

A Speculative Fiction Night Out
by Alex Granados

Photo by Libby Himberger, LKH Photography

A standing-room only crowd of fiction fans came out to the New Hope Barnes & Noble

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The StellarCon typewriter pages.

Posted on 2011-03-21 at 17:09 by montsamu

To draw attention to the Durham Literacy Center, Bull Spec maintained a typewriter (an old, cantankerous, weighty old Underwood) in the hallway at StellarCon and invited people to type on it, to feel the power of writing and think about those who cannot read. Well, over the course of 3 legal-size blank sheets, some typing was done:

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Third Bear Carnival contest winners.

Posted on 2011-03-18 at 17:45 by montsamu

I found this sitting in "draft" when trying to tie up some loose ends, and apologize to the winners for the lateness of the post -- though they did get their books long ago. For this contest, I asked readers to submit reviews of non-existent books, tied however loosely, to Jeff VanderMeer's recent collection The Third Bear.


Well, two came through with shining colors. The first comes from Stephen Gordon:

Two Weird by Jeff VanderMeer (2012) 

Jeff VanderMeer produces remarkable collections of short fiction, and T

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Oh my: February will be a fun month.

Posted on 2011-02-03 at 17:41 by montsamu

But first, a quick recap of some things I missed along the way.

December

6 Mur Lafferty and Mary Robinette Kowal among the guest narrators for Cory Doctorow's With a Little Help
15 Natania Barron's story "Without a Light" is published in Fantastique Unfettered #1
16 Clay and Susan Griffith's The Greyfriar is named The Vamp Chix blog's Best Vamp Novel 2010 (one of many, many lists and year-end praises for the book)
30 Natania Barron's story "Dead's End to Middleton" (originally in Crossed Genres "Steampunk" issue

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