Posts published in: 2010/04
BULL SPEC is now accepting subscriptions.
Posted on 2010-04-30 at 1:3 by montsamu
I'm finally at a point where I feel comfortable that I will be continuing the print magazine at the very least long enough to honor a 4-issue (a year, as BULL SPEC is quarterly) subscription. I didn't want to open the doors taking subscriptions, but as Issue #2 is well underway, stories, reviews, and interviews starting to fill out Issue #3, and even a couple things already booked for Issue #4, I went ahead and flipped the switch. In keeping with the "pay what you like" theme for everything I do
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Free shipping to the United Kingdom until 8 PM GMT.
Posted on 2010-04-21 at 13:26 by montsamu
I've a box going that way anyway and a few more copies won't overburden the load. So until 8 PM GMT (4 PM Eastern Time, about 7.5 hours from now) orders from the United Kingdom can select "Local" shipping. There won't be a better chance to get BULL SPEC #1 if you're in the U.K. so head over to the funky/ugly/terrible order form and grab a copy! (Limit one copy per person, please.)
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Another review! Bookgasm's Rodd Lott reviews BULL SPEC #1.
Posted on 2010-04-14 at 14:10 by montsamu
While he found some things I need to do better (such as give the reader something to go on before plunging them into an interview), Bookgasm's Rodd Lott also had some very kind things to say in his review of BULL SPEC #1, calling BULL SPEC a "worthy vehicle for the short story" and singling out the first chapter of Mike Gallagher's serialized comic "Closed System" as "great fun."
So check out the review!
Posted in bookgasm, reviews-of-bull-spec, rodd lott
BULL SPEC #1 PDF available under a Creative Commons license at "pay what you want." Yes, even $0.
Posted on 2010-04-09 at 2:1 by montsamu
It's the way I wanted to do things from the beginning, and even though it is the result of an awful lot of work (and not a tiny amount of money) I'm putting my money where my mouth is when it comes to a lot of things, the two that come to mind right now are:
- Gift Economy: Don't want to pay, don't pay. Want to support the authors, artists, and editor behind Bull Spec? I hope I made it easy enough.
- Creative Commons: The PDF file is offered under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3
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BULL SPEC is available at two new places.
Posted on 2010-04-08 at 17:24 by montsamu
The first is at the Chapel Hill location of Ultimate Comics, where I finally met owner Alan Gill and learned about as much as I could have hoped about the local comics scene. (For example, did you know that Cowboy Ninja Viking features an Ultimate Comics cameo? I didn't.)
The second is at the Durham County Library's Main Branch. Don't look for it in the periodicals section, instead head upstairs to the North Carolina Collection and look for the periodicals section. As a kid who grew up loving books and my
Posted in announcements, where to get bull spec
A truly "diabolical" contest.
Posted on 2010-04-08 at 11:0 by montsamu
The writing blog Diabolical Plots is having a little contest to celebrate its hit counter rolling into five digits, and what better way to celebrate fun base-10-centric milestones than with a giveaway? So I sent David Steffen an extra copy of Bull Spec #1 to give away.
But there's a catch. Both Diabolical Plots and Bull Spec like to do interviews, and are asking you to give an idea of somebody in speculative fiction to interview. For the full details check out the Diabolical Plots post on the contest, and
Posted in announcements, contests, diabolical plots
Well, that's neat. BULL SPEC #1 is "very cool."
Posted on 2010-04-06 at 16:25 by montsamu
In "Bull Spec" On Target for Speculative Fiction, Suvudu blogger (among many other things) Matt Staggs says the magazine is "very cool." That's very cool of him. Not as cool as this picture of him:
But pretty darned cool. Also "sharp-looking and smart." That goes for Matt, too. Read more...
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More stores, nearer you. And starting to spill the beans on BULL SPEC #2 content. And other random assortments.
Posted on 2010-04-03 at 3:48 by montsamu
First, some store updates. BULL SPEC #1 found a home in two more area stores today, bringing the total to 10. Thanks to All Fun & Games in Apex and the wonderful, amazing, beautiful shrine to books that is Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill. That place... well, I hadn't been there yet and they just jumped in line for where I'd like to do an event.
More store updates? Let's. Talks have been going very well with some very supportive folks: managers of the Raleigh-Durham area Barnes & Noble stores. Fingers crossed