Bull Spec local events e-mailing list: October 2011
Posted: 30 September, 2011 Filed under: newsletter Leave a comment »Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1, 2011:
There’s also a huge list of NEW events, from events for writers to finalized book release dates, to a slate of new readings and panels, some of which are this first weekend in October. Enjoy!
-Sam
SEPTEMBER
30 (Friday) 7:00 pm Durham author Stephen Messer will read from and sign copies of his new children’s novel, The Death of Yorik Mortwell, a mock-Gothic tale about Yorick, son of the Gamekeeper at Ravenby Manor, who meets an untimely demise. The ghostly Yorick haunts the manor and discovers many otherworldly creatures that inhabit the grounds, and that he has a part to play in saving not only his still-living orphan sister but also the manor and everyone in it. Messer is the author of a previous children’s novel Windblowne. More info: http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/stephen-messer-0
NEW: Oct 1 (Sat), 2-4 pm: Chapel Hill Comics is proud to announce a signing with CreatureBox (Dave Guertin and Greg Baldwin). We’ll have copies of Spider Island: I ♥ New York, which features an 8-page Spider-Kitty story with art by CreatureBox. It’s got fantastic art, and it’s just four bucks! We’ll also have copies of the Ratchet and Clank paperback collection, since CreatureBox illustrated the covers for the series! http://www.chapelhillcomics.com/content/?p=1428
NEW: 1: The Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest will open to entries starting on Oct. 1st: http://www.williamledbetter.com/contest.htm
NEW: 2 (Sunday), 2-4 pm: John Kessel will be on a panel discussion of “The Writing Process” with the noted writers Sharon Ewell Foster, Lewis Shiner and Anna Jean Mayhew, moderated by D.G. Martin of NC Bookwatch. The panel will be from 2-4 pm at the North Regional library of the Wake County Library system, on Harps Mill Road off Falls of the Neuse Road in Raleigh. Free and open to the public.
NEW: 4 (Tuesday), 7:30 pm: John Kessel will be giving a reading at Louisburg College in Louisburg, NC. The reading will be at 7:30 in Norris Theater on the Louisburg campus. Free and open to the public.
NEW: 5 (Wednesday), 7:00 p.m. – The Winston-Salem Writers presents Teresa Frohock, author of Miserere: An Autumn Tale, at the Forsyth County Public Library, 660 West Fifth St., Winston-Salem, NC. This event is open to the public.
NEW-NEW: 7 (Friday), 7 pm: Hillsborough author John Claude Bemis reads from The White City, the last book in his The Clockwork Dark trilogy from Random House Books for Young Readers, at The Regulator Bookshop: http://www.regulatorbookshop.com/event/john-claude-bemis
NEW: 8 (Saturday), 10 am: James Maxey: “How to get past the first chapter and finish your novel,” at the Orange County Main Library on Saturday October 8 at 10am.
NEW-NEW: 10 (Monday), 7-8 pm: Join author Mark Van Name as he talks about “Characters and Setting” in your writing as part of the Wake County library’s “Readers to Writers Workshop” series. This one at the West Regional Library: http://www.wakegov.com/images/Library/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D96406577
NEW 15 Pittsboro by Gaslight https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=174427262623261
18 (Tuesday), 7 pm: Regulator Bookshop: Durham author Stephen Messer will be part of a two children’s authors in one (though I would argue he is a middle grade / young reader author to be specific!) for his September 27th published book The Death of Yorik Mortwell: http://www.quailridgebooks.com/event/stephen-messer-kathleen-churchyard-two-childrens-authors-one-program
NEW-NEW: 18 (Tuesday), 7-8 pm: Continuing the Wake County “Readers to Writers” writing workshops, Mark Van Name talks “Plot & Conflict” at the Eva Perry Regional Library: http://www.wakegov.com/images/Library/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D96373397
NEW-NEW: 19 (Wednesday), 6:30 pm: Clay and Susan Griffith talk “Plot & Conflict” as part of the Wake County “Readers to Writers” writing workshop series, at the Cameron Village Regional Library: http://www.wakegov.com/images/Library/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D96392404
NEW: Oct 22 (Saturday), 5-7 pm: Chapel Hill Comics is proud to announce that we will host a signing party for The Zombie Hunters Book One on Saturday, October 22nd from 5pm until 7pm. Come by and pick up the first collection of this zombieriffic webcomic and get in the mood for a spooky Halloween! Have your book or poster signed by creator Jenny Romanchuk and talk to her about creating, publishing, and marketing a successful webcomic! http://www.chapelhillcomics.com/content/?p=1465
NOVEMBER
NEW-NEW: 9 (Wednesday), 7:30 pm: Raleigh’s Quail Ridge Books hosts L.E. Modesitt, Jr. for a reading of his upcoming novel Scholar (Tor, Imager Portfolio series).
NEW-NEW: 26 (Saturday), 9 pm to midnight: The Blotter Magazine is celebrating its 100th issue with a Barbecue Bash from 9 p.m. to midnight, Saturday, Nov. 26, at the Pinhook, 117 W. Main St., Durham, NC. Storm Front, http://www.stormfrontlive.com, and The Gonzo Symphonic Presents,http://www.facebook.com/#!/thegonzosymphonicpresents, will perform. The public is invited. The Blotter Magazine, www.blotterrag.com, exists to nurture underground, outsider literature and art, and to provide it to a wide audience. Our mission is to encourage and support new writers and artists. We hope to see you there.
DECEMBER
NEW: 7 (Wednesday) at 7:30 pm: Quail Ridge Books: John Kessel and Ruth Gross for “An Evening with Franz Kafka and Friends”, including Kessel’s newest anthology, Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka — http://tachyonpublications.com/book/Kafkaesque.html
NEW: 9 (Friday) at 7:00 pm: Quail Ridge Books: Cassandra Clare brings us her latest, Clockwork Prince. In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting.Clockwork Prince is the sequel to Clockwork Angel, and part of theInfernal Devices trilogy. For ages 12 and up. Cassandra Clare is best known for her hugely popular Mortal Instruments series. SIGNING LINE TICKET EVENT – receive a signing line ticket with the purchase of any of Cassandra Clare’s books. More info: http://www.quailridgebooks.com/event/cassandra-clare-ya-novel-clockwork-prince
UPDATED: 13: Local author new novel: Natania Barron, Pilgrim of the Sky from Candlemark & Gleam, Late 2011. “A novel that might be best described as mythpunk. With elements of fantasy, science fiction, Romantic poetry, steampunk, and multiverse theory, well, it isn’t exactly the sort of book that finds a comfortable little niche to sit in.” More info: http://pilgrimofthesky.com/
NEW-NEW: 31 (Saturday) 9 pm to 1 am: Pittsboro’s Davenport and Winkleperry hosts a New Year’s Eve Clockwork Cabaret Steampunk Masquerade: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=179760945440352
JANUARY 2012
3: Local author new edition: The David Drake onmibus Voyage Across the Stars collects his Hammer’s Slammers novels Cross the Stars and Voyage. From Baen. More info: http://www.baen.com/order_isbn.asp?isbn=9781451637717
With just about 48 hours to go, the final week push continues with books from David Drake and James Maxey
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The Kickstarter final week push continues with: Mur Lafferty’s Afterlife Series
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Kickstarter: Final week, final push!
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Bull Spec: Year 3 Kickstarter — progress update!
Posted: 16 September, 2011 Filed under: kickstarter Leave a comment »With two weeks left to go, the Bull Spec Year 3 Kickstarter has met its “drop dead or not” goal of $1000! Thank you all SO MUCH for spreading the word and contributing to this effort.
This Kickstarter project is to help fund the 60,000 words or so of original fiction, 20 or so illustrations, the reviews, the poetry, and the serialized graphic short story (and more!) which will comprise the four issues of the third year ofBULL SPEC which will run from about Spring/Summer 2012 through Winter/Spring 2013. At $0.05/word for fiction and poetry and $100-$200 per illustration, the year’s content budget will come to about $5,000. The printing budget adds another $5,000, giving a total budget for the year of $10,000.
This week’s events: The Rift Walker and Dark Tangos, both at Quail Ridge Books
Posted: 12 September, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized 4 Comments »This week sees Raleigh’s Quail Ridge Books hosting two events of note:
1. Thursday, September 16, 7:30 pm: Clay and Susan Griffith for The Rift Walker: Vampire Empire, Book 2:
So many links have popped up, but most recently a great review from Paul Goat Allen is a good place to get started. There’s a Facebook event by which you can invite your friends, the Quail Ridge event page to send around, and the current fall events flyer to print out and post and hand around as well.
2. Friday, September 17, 7:30 pm: Lewis Shiner for Dark Tangos:
You can of course read Richard Dansky’s review of the book, along with an at-length interview of Shiner, in Bull Spec #6. He also wrote a short essay for John Scalzi’s Whatever blog’s “Big Idea” series, about violence — very much worth the read, and there’s another (shorter) interview courtesy the book’s publisher, Subterranean Press. There’s a Facebook event with which you can invite your friends, the Quail Ridge event page to send around, and yes that current fall events flyer to print out and post and hand around.
There you go! Two reading events this week very much worth taking the time for.
Today (Monday) at Dragon*Con!
Posted: 5 September, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »Though yet, yet again you should have a stack of flyers you’re handing out, and likely have this stuff memorized and/or tattooed:
MONDAY AT DRAGON*CON:
11:30am Clay and Susan Griffith: Supernatural Alternative History
And the last of the The Missing Volume dealer room signings:
10:30 AM Kevin J Anderson and Rebecca Moesta
2 PM Tim Zahn
That’s it! It’s the last day! Don’t forget to check out of your room on time…
Today (Sunday) at Dragon*Con!
Posted: 4 September, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »Though yet again you should have a stack of flyers you’re handing out, and likely have this stuff memorized and/or tattooed:
SUNDAY AT DRAGON*CON:
10:00am Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (AUTO)
11:30am Mur Lafferty (POD)
11:30am Gail Z. Martin (POD)
1:00pm Jason Morningstar (GAME)
1:00pm Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (ALT) — Steampunk Expo with Von Slatt device!
2:30pm Lou Anders (SFLIT)
2:30pm Clay and Susan Griffith (Pyr Books Presents!)
4:00pm Clay and Susan Griffith (Vampires)
4:00pm Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (The Missing Volume dealer room signing)
5:30pm Gail Z. Martin (EFF)
7:00pm Ann VanderMeer (SFLIT)
7:00pm Clay and Susan Griffith Greyfriar Reading w/James Marsters (ticketed event)
10:00pm Gail Z. Martin (DFH)
Whew. Tune in tomorrow for the Monday schedule for those staying all the way through to the end!
Local events flyer for Fall 2011: version 4!
Posted: 3 September, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »With the Lev Grossman event behind us (and it was awesome!) it’s really time to set our sights on the fall events. Things get started with a bang this week with readings from Lewis Shiner and NY Times bestselling author Terry Brooks. Please! Help spread the word about these events by printing, posting, and otherwise distributing this flyer!
http://www.box.net/embed/688ys0b0h48ymem.swf
Today (Saturday) at Dragon*Con!
Posted: 3 September, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »You know the drill by now. Though you should have a stack of flyers you’re handing out, and likely have this stuff memorized and/or tattooed:
SATURDAY AT DRAGON*CON:
11:30am Mur Lafferty (READ)
11:30am Mark L. Van Name (READ)
1:00pm Clay and Susan Griffith (Plotting or Plodding)
1:00pm Erin Hoffman (PYR dealer room signing)
1:00pm Mark L. Van Name (The Missing Volume dealer room signing)
1:00pm Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (ALT)
2:30pm The Baen Books Traveling Road Show (Hyatt)
4:00pm Mark L. Van Name (SFLIT)
4:30pm Parsec Awards (doors at 4, reception to follow, Hyatt Regency V Ballroom)
5:00pm Clay and Susan Griffith (PYR dealer room signing
5:30pm Jeff VanderMeer (READ) (a “bring the house down” reading from his novel in progress BORNE!)
7:00pm Ann VanderMeer (WRIT)
8:30pm Clay and Susan Griffith (Collaboration panel)
10:00pm Gail Z. Martin (WRIT)
Whew. Tune in tomorrow for the Sunday schedule!
