Posts published in: 2010/09

First two interviews videos are on YouTube.

Posted on 2010-09-16 at 18:38 by montsamu

Well, it's not nearly a podcast, but at least (after 8 months...) the first two interview videos are up on YouTube. Each had to be split into 3 parts to fit the "max 15 minute clips" format there, but, hey, at least they are up!

LEE HAMMOCK:

Part 1:


Part 2:


Part 3:


SCI-FI GENRE COMICS & GAMES:

Part 1:


Part 2:


Part 3:

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Posted in interviews, lee hammock, sci-fi genre

Third Bear Carnival: a Bull Spec contest with 3 identical prizes. First, the meta contest.

Posted on 2010-09-14 at 19:5 by montsamu

I'm quite late to the festival which is/was Matthew Cheney's Third Bear Carnival. But to make up for this tardiness, I have 3 copies of Jeff VanderMeer's recent collection The Third Bear which need a good home:

   
The Third Bear by Jeff VanderMeer

Actually, I have 4 copies. But the first 3 copies are for a contest to be determined by a preliminary (meta?) contest, which itself awards the 4th copy as its prize.

Confused? You have barely scratched the surface of bizarre, in any number of ways.

So, contest the

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Posted in contests, third bear carnival

A sneak peek at issue #4's editorial...

Posted on 2010-09-12 at 19:15 by montsamu

Hey all; while I haven't even put together issue #3's yet, I have something already burning its way out of my mind and into draft for issue #4: the important SF/F books of 2010.

There's still a few months left, but here is a sneak peek at what and why:

  1. The SHINE anthology edited by Jetse de Vries (Solaris). Optimistic SF is hard and important; if we as speculative fiction writers cannot see our way convincingly to something optimistic from where we are, perhaps that is as good an argument as any that we're in

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Posted in Uncategorized

So many, many things.

Posted on 2010-09-11 at 17:52 by montsamu

First, a "fall" flyer is here, which stretches from mid-September through November. Contents are basically:


GUIDE TO LOCAL EVENTS
FALL 2010

SEPTEMBER
12 McIntyre’s Books hosts Warren Rochelle for a reading and signing of his new novel The Called
21 Duke University hosts William Gibson for a local stop on his tour promoting his new novel Zero History


OCTOBER
22 Quail Ridge Books hosts Scott Westerfeld for a reading and signing of his new young adult novel Behemoth, sequel to Leviathan
26 Mark Van Name reads from and

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Posted in bull spec #3, flyers

Further afield. Some things beginning to unwrap.

Posted on 2010-09-01 at 2:9 by montsamu

So: making a bit of a regional and further push as I put the wraps on issue #2. (Which includes another box, though I have to decide how many.) A lot (lot!) of the regional pushes (Acme Comics in Greensboro, Barnes & Noble of Burlington, Black Bear Books of Boone, etc.) are pending, but a few further afield places are giving me a shot.

CHICAGO: Quimby's Bookstore will take anything, so I'm not special. But it was nice to get an e-mail receipt from them, so I know they've received the books. So, my fine

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Posted in meta, store-announcements