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Posted on 2010-07-19 at 19:58 by montsamu

Fans of Bull Spec or whomever else, tune into WUNC's "The State of Things" on Wednesday, July 21st at noon! Guests will include Bull Spec's Samuel Montgomery-Blinn, NCSU professor and award-winning author John Kessel, game designer and author Richard Dansky, and maybe more. Don't miss it! We'll be talking speculative fiction, NASFiC/ReConStruction, ...

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An absolute mess of updates. (Bull Spec #2 PDF is available!)

Posted on 2010-07-15 at 03:29 by montsamu

Not much time so:

A whole bunch of Bull Spec #2 mailings just went out
Bull Spec #2 is in stock at: Sci-Fi Genre; Barnes and Noble of Southpoint; Ultimate Comics Prime; Chapel Hill Comics; Internationalist Books; Flyleaf Books; The Regulator Bookshop; Barnes and Noble of Cary; and Quail Ridge Books. I didn't make it to Foundation's Edge or All Fun & Games yet; a handy helper is taking copies to Storyteller's for me
Bull Spec #2 PDF is available for download
Acceptances! to Denali Hyatt and Preston Grassmann

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BULL SPEC #2 Launch Party: Wednesday 4 August at 7:30 PM at Quail Ridge Books

Posted on 2010-07-08 at 18:46 by montsamu

The "summer issue" of Bull Spec is here! To celebrate making it to a second issue and to kick things off, we're going to get together at Quail Ridge Books on Wednesday, August 4th at 7:30 PM for readings and discussion and perhaps even a bit of a roundtable "program." Local story contributors Gwendolyn Clare and Paul Celmer will be there to give folks a taste of their stories in the issue; NCSU professor and award-winning author John Kessel might say a few words about speculative fiction or his recent

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BULL SPEC #2 is available for pre-order!

Posted on 2010-06-30 at 18:04 by montsamu

It's looking like July 6th at the earliest for the issue to be in my hands, but that's no reason to keep folks from reserving their copy. So, after a heck of a lot of hard work, and thanks to some great contributors, BULL SPEC #2 is now available to pre-order!

With cover art by the awesome Vladimir Krizan, stories from Melissa Mead, Uri Grey, Gwendolyn Clare, Paul Celmer, and Kaolin Fire; the continuation of the graphic story "Closed System" by Mike Gallagher; an excerpt of Richard Dansky's "North Carolina

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Books Received: June 2010

Posted on 2010-06-30 at 14:47 by montsamu

OK. The fun has apparently started, as I've started receiving some review copies at the Bull Spec PO Box. I've been pinging reviewers and so far having pretty good luck at finding homes for them, but please, publishers and authors: query first! I only carry 2-4 reviews per issue, and at least one of those will be a solicited book. That out of the way, books received, June 2010:

The Legions of Fire by David Drake (Tor). Pub. May 2010; $25.99; Hardcover; 368 pages; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches; ISBN: 978-0-7653-2078-0

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Some acceptances. OK, a lot of acceptances.

Posted on 2010-06-27 at 04:41 by montsamu

Not as much fanfare as I might like to give them, but I realized I: (1) didn't even feature here a few more acceptances from issue #1; (2) never mentioned here a pretty long list now of acceptances for issue #2 and further. So, without, ahem, further adieu:

Issue #1:

After deciding to make the move to a print magazine, I had one story firmly in my hands for this issue already, C. S. Fuqua's "Rise Up." Wanting very much to find a local author, and not having a terribly big budget left over for original fiction

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Closed to non-local submissions until 10 July.

Posted on 2010-06-08 at 14:02 by montsamu

As I've just updated the status on the guidelines page to indicate, Bull Spec is now temporarily closed to non-local submissions until (at least) 10 July as I try to catch up on the backlog of submissions and take stock of the stories already accepted and the magazine's needs for future issues.

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Things which BULL SPEC needs to do:

Posted on 2010-06-07 at 03:03 by montsamu

To send issue #2 to the printers. (Soon.)
See #1: finish edits on the reviews. Thank goodness interviews are locked and loaded, and final story edits are in my inbox! All art is locked in! Ads are almost locked in, one more to wait on. And:
To figure out how to communicate to real publishers when I want to excerpt a local author's novel. (See "#1: To send issue #2 to the printers" above.) I don't grok fax machines very well.
To get some story reading help. Seriously.
To get the interviews video podcast going

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Video overview of BULL SPEC #1 starring: the editor and his cats.

Posted on 2010-05-27 at 20:47 by montsamu

So. In early-ish April my cats and I filmed a brief overview of BULL SPEC #1, and there was (other than intermittent interruption by cat) a pretty big problem: I'd held my finger over the camera's microphone for a pretty good segment. Well, one of the things I never got around to doing was re-recording this, and besides: how could I recapture the magic of frolicking cats?

So, part one:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMRQLdVVwcw&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0]

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Going to be temporarily closing soon to non-local submissions.

Posted on 2010-05-26 at 01:43 by montsamu

I'm way, way, way, waaaaay behind in reading. And it's not fair to the authors who have trusted me with their words. And besides, now I'm pretty much booked on the short end of stories for non-local authors for the next few issues. (I hope I get to announce some of that soon! But there are I's to dot and T's to cross, first.)

But I hate to do that unannounced. So I'm going to give folks until Memorial Day (31 May) to get something in. I don't think I'll be re-opening until 1 July at the earliest, so that's a

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