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We're pleased to announce that BULL SPEC #1 will include a feature on: game designer and author Lee Hammock.

Posted on 2009-12-07 at 02:40 by montsamu

Rounding out our interviews for BULL SPEC #1 will be game designer and author Lee Hammock, currently Lead Game Designer on the RPG/FPS hybrid MMOG Fallen Earth for Cary, North Carolina-based Icarus Studios. We're very much looking forward to sitting down with him and talking about his writing, gaming both digital and tabletop, Fallen Earth, and what's next.

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We're pleased to announce that BULL SPEC #1 will include a feature on D. Harlan Wilson.

Posted on 2009-12-06 at 02:42 by montsamu

While for the most part we're about to enter "stealth mode" as we get ready for the late January first issue, there are a few more things we're just too excited about to keep under wraps. For today, we're very pleased indeed to announce that BULL SPEC #1 will include an expanded feature on award-winning novelist, short story writer, cultural theorist, and screenwriter D. Harlan Wilson, including an interview and reviews of his latest novel (Peckinpah: An Ultraviolent Romance) and his latest nonfiction book

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We're pleased to announce that BULL SPEC #1 will be including some articles, reviews and interviews, including an interview of: Jennifer Bedell & Zachary Boyd of Durham's Sci-Fi Genre Comics & Games.

Posted on 2009-12-03 at 19:25 by montsamu

While some other things are still too much in the pending stage, we're pleased to announce that due to such great response so far, we're going to move to a full e-zine format a little ahead of schedule. To that end, we've started tracking down some articles, reviews, and interviews to include in BULL SPEC #1 in January, and we're even more pleased to announce that our first interview will be of Jennifer Bedell & Zachary Boyd of Durham's Sci-Fi Genre Comics & Games.

Having recently celebrated the 3rd

Posted in announcements, article-announcements, bull spec #1, interview-announcements, jennifer bedell, review-announcements, sci-fi genre, zachary boyd

Slight updates to guidelines. Status.

Posted on 2009-12-03 at 15:30 by montsamu

We've made some updates to our guidelines and wanted to briefly highlight them:

1. Explanation of logarithmic word count share for anthologies;
2. We will accept attachments of any kind (as long as we can read them!) in future submissions periods;
3. We will accept two story submissions per author, per submissions period, to avoid a common occurrence this time around of having already accepted a story on one or the other side of the speculative fiction spectrums and not giving enough time for a follow-up submission;
4. Cap

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Sneak Peek: "La Arquitectura de la Luna" (the Spanish translation of Joe Meno's "The Architecture of the Moon").

Posted on 2009-11-29 at 02:34 by montsamu

I thought you might also enjoy a sneak peek into the progress of the Spanish translation for Joe Meno's "The Architecture of the Moon." Also serving as a "Welcome!" to Itzel Leaf, who is handling the Spanish translation for this story and we are thrilled to have her on the BULL SPEC team. Without further adieu: the first paragraph of "La Arquitectura de la Luna:"

Para el Lunes la luna había dejado de brillar. En un momento es la forma mas importante del cielo nocturno, y después desaparece, una imagen un

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Sneak Peek: "L'Architecture de la Lune" (the French translation of Joe Meno's "The Architecture of the Moon").

Posted on 2009-11-27 at 18:26 by montsamu

I thought you might enjoy a sneak peek into the progress of the French translation for Joe Meno's "The Architecture of the Moon." Also serving as a "Welcome!" to Andrew Matte, who is handling the French translation and narration for this story and we are thrilled to have him on the BULL SPEC team. Without further adieu: the first paragraph of "L'Architecture de la Lune:"

Par lundi la lueur de la lune est disparru. Un moment c'est la figure le plus important dans le ciel ensuite c'est parti, un image brumeux

Posted in andrew matte, bull spec benefit short #1, joe meno, l'architecture de la lune, the architecture of the moon

Progress, slow and steady.

Posted on 2009-11-27 at 06:27 by montsamu

Already a week overdue on finalizing responses, I am afraid it will likely be a week more yet before every story gets its proper evaluation and response. Please do rest assured that each one will be fully considered in time, and that the main reason for delay is in the interest of allowing such consideration.

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Reading and reading and reading. And reading. And translating.

Posted on 2009-11-20 at 03:39 by montsamu

Apologies for the slower responses to your submissions than anticipated. There's been enough stories that we truly enjoyed that if we could we'd fill a little (or not so little) anthology.

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We're pleased to announce that BULL SPEC SHORT #1 will be: Terry Bisson's "George."

Posted on 2009-11-17 at 17:41 by montsamu

The summer before George was born, Katie and I lived in a house on a high hill. The hill sloped up gently on three sides, covered with thick grass kept short by the wind; but in the back, behind the house, if fell off sharply, down a high, rocky cliff, to the sea. The house was right at the top, about thirty yards from the edge of the cliff, and all we could see of the ocean from there was its top edge, where it tilted up against the sky. The cliff was so high and the wind from the sea was so noisy that

Posted in announcements, benefit-short-announcements, bull spec short #1, george, terry bisson

We are now closed for submissions until 1 February 2010.

Posted on 2009-11-16 at 05:00 by montsamu

Thanks everyone, so much for your submissions. We have so very many excellent stories to re-read and consider, and are, frankly, a bit overwhelmed. So much in just 10 days! All this really means is (1) submissions from now forward will be returned unread; and (2) we hope to actually finish selections in a week to ten days instead of that window moving further and further forward as more great stories come in.

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