Posts published in: 2010/08
September 2010 events flyer.
Posted on 2010-08-31 at 16:15 by montsamu
The flyers seem to be a fairly popular little thing, so here is the September 2010 Local Events/News flyer. It is a PDF file which you may and probably should print out a bunch of times and put everywhere.
Inside:
2 Mark Van Name reads from and talks about his new science fiction novel Children No More at Quail Ridge Books; author’s proceeds donated to Falling Whistles, a child Read more...
Posted in events, flyers
Issue #1 is back in stock. In a big, big way. And quarters. And more.
Posted on 2010-08-26 at 0:57 by montsamu
So. I can't really say enough about Publisher's Press, without whom I don't think it would have been possible to start an honest-to-goodness, full-size, glossy, thick stock, some color print magazine at all. When I sold out of issue #1 at NASFIC I figured I was done with issue #1, period, end of story.
But then folks kept asking for #1. Heck, bookstores called me and asked for #1. So, I caved. I called up my printer and asked about one last run. Deliriously happy with the quote, I ordered one last box, and
Posted in meta
How far is Pittsboro?
Posted on 2010-08-13 at 19:9 by montsamu
For most of us around the Raleigh-Durham area, luckily that answer doesn't fully apply when talking about McIntyre's Books. Fearrington Village is about halfway from Chapel Hill to Pittsboro along US 15-501, which is far, but maybe not too far for a couple of local events of Bull Spec interest:
The first is so recently booked that it isn't yet on the village calendar but it has made it onto Mark Van Name's events so I think it's safe to say it's official. Mark will be at McIntyre's on Sunday, August 29 at 2
Posted in events
Two new homes for Bull Spec! Also, flyers! Also, a brief aside on selling out.
Posted on 2010-08-10 at 19:26 by montsamu
I'm very happy indeed that there are two more places in the Triangle where folks can get their hands on a copy of Bull Spec #2: The Durham County Library's Southwest Regional Branch on Shannon Road, and Duke University's Gothic Bookshop.
I want to talk about the library first, not only because it was there first chronologically but because, well, it's very awesome for me on a personal level to know that somebody can walk into the library and discover worlds, as I did all through my youth at my "home" public
Posted in meta, store-announcements
Welcome aboard, Alex and Dan!
Posted on 2010-08-09 at 23:33 by montsamu
Folks may get the idea that I need to get help. Well, I have.
Alex Granados is coming on as associate editor. He'll be doing some fiction editing, handling the rewrite process, copy editing, and, when I get things sorted out enough to even be able to get help on that front, reading story submissions. His background is, like mine, in the newspaper world, and I've been so very fortunate to run into him.
Dan Campbell is coming on as the new Bull Spec poetry editor. He'll be handling the poetry page(s) up until
Posted in announcements
Saturday at NASFiC is going to be awesome.
Posted on 2010-08-07 at 4:1 by montsamu
So. It should be the biggest and best day of the convention, and there's a few last-minute things to mention. (Did I mention that I rhyme some of the time?) First, there's another scheduled guest appearance at the Bull Spec dealer table. local author Mark Van Name will be on hand to sign his just-out book Children No More from 4-5p, and, if I can track down a typewriter, he'll be writing flash fiction for charity on demand for Falling Whistles, the charity he's supporting with Children No More. If we can't
Read more...Posted in nasfic
More NASFiC scheduling: Clay Griffith coming by on Saturday!
Posted on 2010-08-06 at 2:47 by montsamu
I already mentioned that David Halperin is stopping by; if you missed him today there's still Friday (11a-1p, 2-3p) and Saturday (2-4p) to chat about Journal of a UFO Investigator. Well, though I still don't know when a few other folks will be coming by in concrete terms, I'm really pleased to invite folks to come by Saturday from 1-3p to talk with local author Clay Griffith, whose book (along with wife Susan) The Greyfriar: Vampire Empire Book 1 is forthcoming from Pyr (November):
In the year 1870, aRead more...
Posted in nasfic
Treats. Let me tempt you with them.
Posted on 2010-08-04 at 14:41 by montsamu
So: if a panel of John Kessel, Natania Barron, Gwendolyn Clare, and Paul Celmer can't tempt you to come out to the Bull Spec #2 launch party at Quail Ridge Books tonight, maybe these will. Mrs. Bull Spec has once again brought out the big guns:
Three (count 'em, three!) varietals of rice crispy treats. Sure, there's your standard (in this case, a little more on the gooey side) 'plain':
And then it gets a little more interesting, with M&Ms and Reese's Pieces:
And then something really cool, coconut raisin Read more...
Posted in events
Scheduled and scheduling.
Posted on 2010-08-03 at 1:57 by montsamu
First, some upcoming things which didn't make Issue #2's "Happenings" which I've recently learned about:
- I had local author John Claude Bemis' The Wolf Tree in Happenings, but not the book's launch party at Purple Crow Books in Hillsborough on August 28
- Brandon Sanderson is reading and signing from Way of Kings: The Stormlight Archive, Vol. 1 at Quail Ridge Books on September 7 at 7:30 PM
- William Gibson (!!!) is bringing his Zero History tour to Duke University on September 21 at 7:00 PM
Second, and on the Read more...
Posted in announcements, happenings, reconstruction
Two days until the issue #2 party at Quail Ridge Books! (New Flyer.)
Posted on 2010-08-02 at 16:3 by montsamu
There's a new new flyer to post around if folks are up for it. Just two days until the issue #2 party at Quail Ridge Books on Wednesday and there's a few places I haven't been able to get to:
Raleigh:
- NCSU campus
- Hillsborough Street (done: Nice Price Books to Schoolkids Records) (need: Schoolkids down to the Morgan split)
- Glenwood South
- Moore Square
- City Market
- Cameron Village
- Five Points
- Downtown
- Downtown
- Brightleaf Square
- Done: Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd (Guglhupf to University Drive)
- Duke East Campus
- Done: 9th