Posts published in: 2009/11

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 2:34 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

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Progress, slow and steady.

Posted on 2009-11-27 at 6:27 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 3:39 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

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We are now closed for submissions until 1 February 2010.

Posted on 2009-11-16 at 5:0 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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Heads up: will be closing submissions for this reading period at midnight Sunday night EST.

Posted on 2009-11-12 at 21:9 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

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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.

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Request for comments: a mutiny on the bounty.

Posted on 2009-11-11 at 15:5 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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