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Maker Faire tomorrow! Free RPG Day, too! M. David Blake is interviewed! Exciting things!

Posted on 2012-06-15 at 21:27 by montsamu

First: I hope as many of you as humanly possible were among the 40+ who went to see and hear Kevin Hearne at Flyleaf Books last Tuesday, and were able to do more than stop by Jeremy Whitley's Princeless event last Saturday at Ultimate Comics. Did you go? Any pictures or memorable quotes?

Second: tomorrow is Maker Faire NC at the Kerr Scott Building at the NC State Fairgrounds. It runs from 10 am to 5 pm, and includes homemade robots, crafters, quilters, gadgeters, artists, and other "makers" from around

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Bull Spec Newsletter for June 2012

Posted on 2012-06-07 at 19:12 by montsamu

Vol 2. No. 5, Thursday, June 7, 2012:

Wow, did May fly by or what? New books (Mark L. Van Name's No Going Back, John Claude Bemis's The Prince Who Fell From the Sky complete with launch party extravaganza last Saturday), more events (David Halperin, Alethea Kontis, Free Comic Book Day) and last weekend's ConCarolinas in Charlotte. We also had a good bit of local and regional author awards news ranging from storySouth selections to another Nebula Award for Kij Johnson.

June is shaping up to be quite a

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3 bits of local and regional author awards news

Posted on 2012-05-24 at 14:50 by montsamu

Three quick-hitting bits of local and regional author awards news, which all deserve more detailed mention, but at least deserve this quick mention:

1. The storySouth Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2011 have been announced (*), and these include:

• "And the Rain Fell Through Her Fingers" by Richard Dansky (storySouth, March 2011)
• "City of the Dead" by Kristine Ong Muslim (Connotation Press)
• "AIP" by T.C. McCarthy (Rutgers University's Story Quarterly Online) -- PDF

2.

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Yet another new event! Book Launch Extravaganza for The Prince Who Fell From the Sky by John Claude Bemis

Posted on 2012-05-16 at 21:01 by montsamu

I'm thrilled to share that my new book The Prince Who Fell from the Sky comes out May 22!  I am thankful that it is already being well-received. Amazon picked it as a Best Book of the Month for May (you can pre-order it 40% off, or get it at your local indy bookstore or Barnes and Noble).

I hope you'll be able to join me for my book launch party.  Lots of fun for the whole family with music, a book performance by my young acting troupe

Posted in events, Uncategorized | Tagged events, john claude bemis

Poetry poetry poetry!

Posted on 2012-05-16 at 19:11 by montsamu

Here's some speculative poetry news, both relating to Bull Spec.

First, as Bull Spec poetry editor Dan Campbell notes:

Issue 7 of Bull Spec is now for sale! It has poetry by alexa_seidel, Daniel A. Rabuzzi, thunderpigeon, Deborah Walker, Athena Andreadis, Mari Ness, Damon Shaw, and Sofia Samatar.

Also out now is The Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Poetry, edited by Rose Lemberg. Three of the poems included in the antho originally appeared in Bull Spec, and I'm thrilled with the line

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New local event (and flyer): Chapel Hill Comics to host signing for the collected Eisner-nominated PRINCELESS, with writer Jeremy Whitley.

Posted on 2012-05-10 at 23:56 by montsamu

The collected Princeless was originally set for the end of April but was delayed due to printing delays, meaning the planned event also had to be delayed. I'm happy to report that, at least sometimes, delays do not necessarily mean cancellations, as Chapel Hill Comics is set to host a signing event for collected Eisner-nominated comic Princeless with writer Jeremy Whitley on Saturday May 26 from 1 to 3 pm:

Also: I added this (NEW-NEW) to the Bull Spec events newsletter, and here's a slightly updated flye

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Vote today against a dystopian future.

Posted on 2012-05-08 at 05:18 by montsamu

It's one of my favorite genres of sf: dystopian fiction. In the great Orwellian tradition of Nineteen Eighty-Four, it isn't enough to simply have an oppressive government; the government in question must be doing its oppression in the name of doublespoken freedom.

Here in North Carolina, a fairly typical dystopian plank appears on our ballots today, Tuesday, May 8th, 2012: put the human rights of a minority up for a majority vote and call it democratic justice. Well, I say no thanks. I am pretty

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New local event: Flyleaf Books to host Kevin Hearne, author of The Iron Druid Chronicles

Posted on 2012-05-05 at 00:10 by montsamu

Pretty much every time I send out the monthly events newsletter, the first thing that happens is that I get e-mails about the events I've missed. While I can update them on the website (search for NEW-NEW to find things added after the e-mails go out), sometimes the events warrant a post of their own -- and this is just such an event.

Kevin Hearne is the author of The Iron Druid Chronicles series (Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, and just-released Tricked) which tell the story of Atticus O’Sullivan, the titular

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Bull Spec newsletter for May 2012

Posted on 2012-05-03 at 04:26 by montsamu

Vol 2. No. 4, Wednesday, May 2, 2012:

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Bull Spec alumni news: David Tallerman

Posted on 2012-04-30 at 14:33 by montsamu

Here's a couple bits of news for David Tallerman, author of "The Burning Room" which appeared in Bull Spec #4:

• The story was included in Ellen Datlow's online Full Honorable Mention List for Best Horror of the Year volume 4
• His debut novel, Giant Thief, was published by Angry Robot on January 31; it was just released today in audio from Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio, read by James Langton

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alumni news, david tallerman