Posts published in: 2011/03
While this isn't the contest news some are waiting for: a new mini-contest!
Posted on 2011-03-25 at 16:7 by montsamu
I'm not the only one who has been amused by John Scalzi's blurb for Sam Sykes just released book BLACK HALO. The blurb reads: "I do not wish Sam Sykes Dead." High praise, indeed! Still, it leaves me wanting more. So: a weeklong mini-contest!
HOW TO ENTER AND WHAT: Either comment here, on the relevant post on Bull Spec's Facebook Page, or reply to the relevant tweet from @bullspec on Twitter, with an even better backhanded evil blurb than Scalzi's. OK, I know, that's impossible. Just do the best you can. The
Posted in contests
From the issue 4 cutting room floor: NC Speculative Fiction Night article by Alex Granados
Posted on 2011-03-22 at 19:3 by montsamu
(Sam's note: Issue 4 grew from 64 to 68 pages, and still I couldn't get everything in. Some things moved onto the upcoming issue 5, but some things were of a more time-sensitive nature and were left, more or less, on the cutting room floor. Here's one, an article on the November 11, 2010 "NC Speculative Fiction Night", by Alex Granados.)
by Alex Granados
Photo by Libby Himberger, LKH Photography |
Posted in articles
The StellarCon typewriter pages.
Posted on 2011-03-21 at 17:9 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:
Page one:
Page two:
Page three:
Of course the last page somebody gets a little vulgar, but that's what happens when you leave a typewriter in a public place. For the most part Read more...
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Third Bear Carnival contest winners.
Posted on 2011-03-18 at 17:45 by montsamu
I found this sitting in "draft" when trying to tie up some loose ends, and apologize to the winners for the lateness of the post -- though they did get their books long ago. For this contest, I asked readers to submit reviews of non-existent books, tied however loosely, to Jeff VanderMeer's recent collection The Third Bear.
Well, two came through with shining colors. The first comes from Stephen Gordon:
Two Weird by Jeff VanderMeer (2012)
Jeff VanderMeer produces remarkable collections of short fiction, and TRead more...