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Heads up: will be closing submissions for this reading period at midnight Sunday night EST.

Posted on 2009-11-12 at 21:09 by montsamu

We've received so many great submissions, and many other ones quite good, besides. We promised to keep submissions open for 10 days and Sunday night at midnight EST will be that minimum. To be fair to ourselves, our day jobs, our families, and the stories we've already received that we'd be happy to end up selecting, we're going to close for submissions of original short stories at that time so that we can finish our selection process for this first submissions period.

So: keep 'em coming until then! For the

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We're pleased to announce that BULL SPEC NOVELLA #1 will be: Alan Smale's "Delusion's Song."

Posted on 2009-11-12 at 14:28 by montsamu

To control Branwell they had to subdue him. To subdue him, they chose to burn him. So, on the fifty-third day of the village’s isolation from the world, a day that might have been April 29th of 1846 if the calendar could be trusted, the farm laborers and wool-combers and idle-hands of Haworth took Branwell out of the Black Bull and incinerated him by proxy.

Samuel coaxed him from the public house readily enough with the promise of free bathtub gin at his home, but as soon as Branwell saw the grinning mob

Posted in alan smale, announcements, benefit-announcements, benefit-novella-announcements, bull spec novella #1, delusion's song

We're pleased to announce that BULL SPEC ORIGINAL SHORT #1 will be: "Rise Up" by C. S. Fuqua.

Posted on 2009-11-11 at 16:37 by montsamu

Wynne shouted Bobby’s name as the guitar case in the backseat bounced against the ceiling, then back down.

Time suspended.

Undergrowth tore at the car, and a tree slammed into the passenger side. The airbags exploded.

Posted in announcements, bull spec original short #1, c. s. fuqua, original-announcements, original-short-announcements, rise up

Request for comments: a mutiny on the bounty.

Posted on 2009-11-11 at 15:05 by montsamu

We're still tinkering with how we want to approach original works publication. (For benefit works, initial publication will be in Creative Commons BY-NC-ND or less restrictive at the author's request.) First, again, we'll never, ever sue or threaten to sue anyone for copyright infringement, etc. (Several reasons for this, let us know if you really want the speech on it.) What we're trying to do is both find a way to (1) give us a chance at being the 'authoritative' source for the files for a short period

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Call for discussion: ads on the blog.

Posted on 2009-11-11 at 13:58 by montsamu

We don't think we'll need to do ads, and don't particularly want to and may not anyway, but what do our communities think of some minimal ads on the blog (only: never in e-books or audiobooks) to help make sure we can break even and keep going as long as we can? We would treat any ad revenue for the site as if it were a direct donation to the site as described in the "UPDATE" portion of "The BULL SPEC dollar."

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Contact information.

Posted on 2009-11-10 at 19:00 by montsamu

General:

Samuel Montgomery-Blinn, Editor & Publisher, sam at bullspec dot com

Mail: (advise querying first before sending ARCs, etc. but fun loot is always welcome)

Bull Spec
PO Box 13146
Durham, NC 27709

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Closed for reprint submissions.

Posted on 2009-11-10 at 18:02 by montsamu

We are now closed for reprint submissions. Our capacity for reprint production work is full for 6 months, and we'll post an update when we re-open for reprints in about three months. Original submissions are still open and welcome.

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Insanity, we has it.

Posted on 2009-11-10 at 15:19 by montsamu

We would have liked to have this lined up for our "coming out party" last Friday, and it may be a tiny bit premature, but we're in talks to provide video versions of some stories in American Sign Language, accept incoming video stories in American Sign Language, accept incoming stories in text or audio in Hindi, and provide text and audio versions of some stories in Hindi. There's other bits we won't mention yet as they would be even more premature, but things are COOKING, folks, and we couldn't be more

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Two more days of reading.

Posted on 2009-11-10 at 03:20 by montsamu

Another little update on progress on the submissions inbox. There were 2 more stories which trickled in late Saturday, and a nice little stream continued Sunday and Monday. Everybody should have at least received an acknowledgement by now, so if you haven't, please give submissions at bullspec dot com a ping. It's hard rejecting any of these stories and our "short list" is starting to grow. Thanks so much for trusting your stories to a new market.

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We're pleased to announce that BULL SPEC BENEFIT NOVELLA #1 will be: William Shunn's Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated "Inclination."

Posted on 2009-11-09 at 18:41 by montsamu

The Manual tells us that in the beginning the Builder decreed six fundamental Machines. These are his six aspects, and all we do we must do with the Six. We need no other machines.


I believe this with all my heart. I do. And yet sometimes I seem to intuit the existence of a seventh Machine, hovering like a blasphemous ghost just beyond apprehension.


There is something wrong with me, and I don’t know what it is.

Posted in announcements, benefit-announcements, benefit-novella-announcements, bull spec benefit novella #1, inclination, novella-announcements, william shunn