Friday Quick Updates: Mur Lafferty tomorrow, Deborah Johnson next week, a Book Club Moveable Feast this weekend, Jeremy L.C. Jones writes about Manly Wade Wellman, and more
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Friday Quick Updates: Mur Lafferty tomorrow, Deborah Johnson next week, a Book Club Moveable Feast this weekend, Jeremy L.C. Jones writes about Manly Wade Wellman, and more
Posted on 2014-02-07 at 16:7 by montsamu
Friday, February 7, 2014: Three “NEW-NEW” events this weekend, added to the calendar since sending the February newsletter barely a week ago, including Mur Lafferty’s Durham County Library (Southwest Regional Library) event on Saturday and a “Bookmarks Book Club Moveable Feast” event on Sunday in Winston-Salem, for which very, very limited tickets remain. Several more new events were added further down the line, including the 15th Nevermore Film Festival at The Carolina Theatre of Durham on Feb 21-23 and a really intriguing-looking panel on H.G. Wells at the Orange County library in early March.
Speaking of Lafferty, more news there including:
- Her novel The Shambling Guide to New York City is a newly announced Orbital Drop, meaning her publisher Orbit has dropped the ebook price to $1.99 for the next three weeks; a fantastic time to pick it up and get ready for The Ghost Train to New Orleans which "drops" in early March, and speaking of The Ghost Train to New Orleans...
- Lafferty is hosting a contest for the best drink recipe for her fictional "Captain Spaulding", which is gin with (purportedly) demon blood. She's planning to video taste test the entrants and award the winner(s) a prize pack drawn from "copies of Shambling Guide, Ghost Train, and more necklaces from Surly Amy"
I hope you took in some of the fantastic events in a packed first week of February, including Wendy Webb at Flyleaf Books, George Saunders at Duke University (no, I didn’t even know about this one until it was too late, either), and Sheila Turnage at Quail Ridge Books just yesterday. And Turnage’s The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing wasn’t the only highly-anticipated sequel out this week from a regional author, as Megan Miranda’s Vengeance continues where her 2012 debut Fractured left off — and Miranda will be in the area later this month as part of the “Lovestruck” tour. See you out and about!
-Sam
UPCOMING EVENTS, FEBRUARY 2014
8 (Saturday) 3 to 5 pm — Durham County’s Southwest Regional Library hosts a “Meet the Author” event with Durham author Mur Lafferty. More info: http://durhamcountylibrary.org/events/meet-the-author-mur-lafferty/
8 (Saturday) 10 am to 3 pm — The High Country Festival of the Book hosts a special February event in Boone, NC, bringing fiction authors Deborah Johnson and Ed Williams to the area. More info: http://www.highcountryfestivalofthebook.com/
9 (Sunday) 3 pm — Bookmarks NC “Book Club Moveable Feast” in Winston-Salem, NC with authors Wilton Barnhardt, Arien Djanikian, Deborah Johnson, Wendy Welch, and more changing tables every 10 minutes to meet with and discuss with readers. Tickets (4 remaining at last check) are available at: http://bookmarksnc.givezooks.com/events/book-club-movable-feast
10 (Monday) 7:30 pm — Quail Ridge Books hosts Deborah Johnson – The Secret of Magic [Facebook event link]. Johnson’s novel is amazing; it’s an historical fiction set in Mississippi in the late 1940s as a black GI returns home from WW2 to the segregated South, built around an actual NAACP Legal Fund case and a fictional fantasy novel within the novel. (Fiction.)
11 (Tuesday) 7 pm – Flyleaf Books hosts Deborah Johnson discusses her novel The Secret of Magic. (See above for my brief thoughts on this fantastic book.)
16 (Sunday) 2 pm — Flyleaf Books hosts Joyce Allen launches her young adult novel The Threads of Earth, part two of the Threads trilogy.
17 (Monday) 7:30 pm — Quail Ridge Books hosts Alice Hoffman – ‘The Museum of Extraordinary Things’.
19 (Wednesday) 6:30 pm — McIntyre’s Books hosts Alice Hoffman for The Museum of Extraordinary Things.
20 (Thursday) 7 pm — Quail Ridge Books hosts The Lovestruck Tour – Four Passionate Authors. (See below for list.)
21 (Friday) 7 pm — Flyleaf Books hosts The Lovestruck Tour, featuring YA authors Megan Hansen Shepherd (Her Dark Curiosity), Megan Miranda (Fracture), Kasie West (Pivot Point), and Robin Constantine (The Promise of Amazing).