Posts published in: 2012/11

December newsletter: Cherie Priest on Nov. 30; Holiday Party, "Winter Tales", "Geek Mom" in December; new 2013 events; and more

Posted on 2012-11-29 at 23:59 by montsamu

Vol 2. No 9. November 29, 2012:

I'm sending this juuust a bit early this month, mainly to remind people of two things:

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The Hardest Part: C.S. Fuqua on Rise Up

Posted on 2012-11-28 at 21:19 by montsamu

When Bull Spec opened for submissions in November 2009, I had no idea what to expect. Certainly not the avalanche of good stories which buried me for the better part of two years. But there's a fine line between a good story and one of those stories that I just had to publish, and the very first of these was "Rise Up" by C.S. Fuqua. (So early in fact that this was before there was even a "magazine", only a vague idea about publishing a story now and then.) Reading the story, listening to the music, I knew

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The Hardest Part: J.L. Hilton on Stellarnet Prince

Posted on 2012-11-21 at 17:20 by montsamu

Raleigh author J.L. Hilton's debut novel Stellarnet Rebel was published by Harlequin imprint Carina Press in January, with a release party at Tir Na Nog. A fitting place, as the space station at the center of the novel contains an Irish Pub and one of the book's protagonists, Genny O'Riordan, well, you can probably guess by the name. (Also, there's a certain shortage of local Glin establishments, though that's more than understandable considering it is one of the alien races invented by Hilton for the book.

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Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged jl hilton, stellarnet series, the hardest part

The Exploding Spaceship: Review of A.J. Hartley's Darwen Arkwright and the Insidious Bleck

Posted on 2012-11-19 at 18:32 by angelablackwell

[Editor's note: The Exploding Spaceship is a new regular column by Gerald and Angela Blackwell, covering books, authors, events, and who knows what else.]

THE EXPLODING SPACESHIP: Review of Darwen Arkwright and the Insidious Bleck by A.J. Hartley -- Volume 2 in the Darwen Arkwright series (Nov 2012, Razorbill)

The previous volume in the series (Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact) won the Southern Independent Booksellers Association’s Young Adult Book of the Year award for 2011. This series is an

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Posted in The Exploding Spaceship | Tagged AJ Hartley, darwen arkwright, the exploding spaceship

Updated mid-November Flyer

Posted on 2012-11-18 at 16:44 by montsamu

Here's the latest handout flyer, updated for mid-November distribution at NC Comicon at the Durham Convention Center. Day 1 was a huge success, and Day 2 is just getting underway:

But! Don't print that, instead pick either the bw or color PDF. Also, I updated the holiday guide to include a few things that running into some folks at NC Comicon helped jog back into my memory. (Zack Smith's digital comic, and the comic anthology Shakespeare Shaken which has multiple local contributors.)

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Friday Quick Updates: Events and New Books

Posted on 2012-11-16 at 15:56 by montsamu

It's a very packed weekend in terms of events, so let's get to those first:

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Release Day: The Collected Kessel

Posted on 2012-11-16 at 3:50 by montsamu

When Baen associate editor Laura Haywood-Cory sent me the following, my first response was an expletive. Not only has Baen re-released John Kessel's novels in DRM-free ebook formats, which would be noteworthy enough, they've also just published a huge collection of Kessel's short fiction, The Collected Kessel, comprising 42 of Kessel's stories including Nebula winners "Another Orphan" (novella, 1982) and "Pride and Prometheus" (novelette, 2008), and brand new story notes. My favorite of these so far comes

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The Hardest Part: Michael Jasper on A Lasting Cure for Magic

Posted on 2012-11-15 at 3:18 by montsamu

Wake Forest author Michael Jasper has been writing and publishing stories and novels for quite a while now. A graduate of the 1996 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop and 1997 graduate of the North Carolina State Masters Program in Creative Writing, with his professional sf/f career beginning with "Mud and Salt" in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XVI in 2000. A collection (Gunning for the Buddha) and two novels (The Wannoshay Cycle and A Gathering of Doorways) followed

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Tortilla Tuesday: Harry Tortilla "reviews" Reamde by Neal Stephenson (also a contest)

Posted on 2012-11-14 at 3:0 by montsamu

[Editor's note: Tortilla Tuesday will be a very irregular and quite irregular guest column from one Harry Tortilla, whose single-minded concern about the dangers of Omnicorp tends to, er, overly color his thoughts on fiction... Also: There is a simple-to-enter contest giveaway, details at the bottom, for the audiobook of Reamde.]

Reamde

By Harry Tortilla:

With the publication of Reamde, there can now be no further doubt that Neal Stephenson has been replaced by a cybernetic entity. A cybernetic entity able

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Posted in columns, harry tortilla | Tagged harry tortilla, neal stphenson, reamde

Friday Quick Updates: Nov 9th

Posted on 2012-11-09 at 21:40 by montsamu

First, this is something I've been meaning to talk more at length about all week: Raleigh journalist Zack Smith's first published comic "The Stars Below" just hit digital shelves, with art by Portland artist Rich Ellis:

Zack first showed this to me over a year ago, and right away I was blown away by this powerful and actually moving story, told without words from a pigeon's perspective in New York. I'm very glad it is out for a wider audience. It's just a buck from Comixology, and of the list of

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alex granados, jay posey, zack smith

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