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Today (Sunday) at Dragon*Con!

Posted on 2011-09-04 at 08:30 by montsamu

Though yet again you should have a stack of flyers you're handing out, and likely have this stuff memorized and/or tattooed:

SUNDAY AT DRAGON*CON:


10:00am Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (AUTO)
11:30am Mur Lafferty (POD)
11:30am Gail Z. Martin (POD)

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Local events flyer for Fall 2011: version 4!

Posted on 2011-09-03 at 18:48 by montsamu

With the Lev Grossman event behind us (and it was awesome!) it's really time to set our sights on the fall events. Things get started with a bang this week with readings from Lewis Shiner and NY Times bestselling author Terry Brooks. Please! Help spread the word about these events by printing, posting, and otherwise distributing this flyer!

http://www.box.net/embed/688ys0b0h48ymem.swf

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Today (Saturday) at Dragon*Con!

Posted on 2011-09-03 at 08:30 by montsamu

You know the drill by now. Though you should have a stack of flyers you're handing out, and likely have this stuff memorized and/or tattooed:

SATURDAY AT DRAGON*CON:

11:30am Mur Lafferty (READ)
11:30am Mark L. Van Name (READ)
1:00pm Clay and Susan Griffith (Plotting or Plodding)
1:00pm Erin Hoffman (PYR dealer room signing)
1:00pm Mark L. Van Name (The Missing Volume dealer room signing)
1:00pm Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (ALT)
2:30pm The Baen Books Traveling Road Show (Hyatt)
4:00pm Mark L. Van Name (SFLIT)
4:30pm

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Two Wednesday Sep 7 events of note:

Posted on 2011-09-02 at 18:34 by montsamu

Wednesday September 7 will be a very good day to be able to be in two places at once.

7 PM: Lewis Shiner at The Regulator Bookshop. "Join us for a thrilling night of tango with local author Lewis Shiner who will read from his new novel Dark Tangos. Live tango dancers will perform following the reading. Robert 'Beto' Cavenaugh who relocates to Buenos Aires and spends his nights dancing tango meets mysterious Elena who exposes him to the brutal echoes of Argentina’s shameful past. "Shiner’s latest delivers its

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Today (Friday) at Dragon*Con!

Posted on 2011-09-02 at 14:13 by montsamu

But wait, you say. Sam, you're not even going to DragonCon.

Well, you're right. But that doesn't stop me wanting to live vicariously through your posts and tweets and such. So! Though I'm sure you have your flyer printed out (and a stack to hand around, right?) here is...

FRIDAY AT DRAGONCON:

1:00pm Gail Z. Martin (WRIT)
3:30pm Clay and Susan Griffith (PYR dealer room signing)
4:00pm Lou Anders (WRIT)
5:30pm Mur Lafferty (AUTO)
5:30pm Jason Morningstar (GAME)
5:30pm Gray Rinehart (Princess Alethea Kontis's

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Kickstart Bull Spec!

Posted on 2011-08-29 at 20:11 by Natania

Do you want more amazing speculative fiction at pro rates? Of course you do. Bull Spec is holding a Kickstarter campaign, and there's still plenty of time to contribute. For the whole list of gifts, check out our posts here. For an overview of how and why, read on!

Who? Bull Spec is a quarterly print and PDF magazine of speculative fiction published out of Durham, NC, with a strong focus on Raleigh-Durham and Carolinas authors. Upon completion of its first year of publication, it was approved as a SFWA

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Yeah, more DNS fun.

Posted on 2011-08-16 at 03:17 by montsamu

DNS servers all went berserk today, so I may have lost more e-mail, and all the folks who were so good to check out the Kickstarter (and thanks big time to all of you who shared the link!) were probably a bit confused when they, er, couldn't actually go see the magazine website, sample issues, etc. Hooray, technology fail! Trying to sort things out, but also need to go to bed.

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Hello world!

Posted on 2011-08-14 at 18:43 by Natania

Welcome to WordPress.com. After you read this, you should delete and write your own post, with a new title above. Or hit Add New on the left (of the admin dashboard) to start a fresh post.

Here are some suggestions for your first post.

1. You can find new ideas for what to blog about by reading the Daily Post.
2. Add PressThis to your browser. It creates a new blog post for you about any interesting  page you read on the web.
3. Make some changes to this page, and then hit preview on the right. You can always

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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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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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