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The Hardest Part: Henry Vogel on The Fugitive Heir

Posted on 2015-10-15 at 15:58 by montsamu

The planetary romances of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Leigh Brackett fueled Raleigh author Henry Vogel's imagination and directly inspired his Scout series of novels, published by Bruce Bethke at Rampant Loon Press. For his new novel, The Fugitive Heir, Vogel has (with Bethke's blessing and support) submitted his "space opera meets adventure thriller" to the Kindle Scout program. To give his submission the best chance for success, Vogel had artist Aaron Starr, who has also provided the covers for the "Scout

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October newsletter: Alexandra Duncan, Leigh Bardugo, Brian Selznick, Julia Elliott, A.G. Riddle, and HonorCon

Posted on 2015-10-10 at 13:10 by montsamu

Vol 5 No 7. Saturday, October 10, 2015: Fall is here, and we've got a fantastic lineup of local events and new books coming our way before the first chances of snow, so get your calendars and bookshelves ready for an authorial invasion.

EVENTS

• October 8-11 (Thursday to Sunday) Bouchercon

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The Hardest Part: Alexandra Duncan on Sound, ahead of her appearance this Sunday at Flyleaf Books

Posted on 2015-10-09 at 13:57 by montsamu

Asheville author Alexandra Duncan's new novel Sound is the stand-alone companion to her award-winning novel Salvage, a debut that internationally bestselling author Stephanie Perkins called “kick-ass, brilliant, feminist science fiction.” But I believe my interest was piqued when it was being described as perfect "for fans of Beth Revis, Firefly, and Battlestar Galactica." In Salvage, the action focused on Ava, "a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated, conservative deep space merchant ship Parastrat

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged alexandra duncan, flyleaf books

Issue #10 is out!

Posted on 2015-10-02 at 16:39 by montsamu

So, yeah. This isn't the newsletter, though October's is coming real soon now. This is... This is something new. (Or old.) This is, dare I say it, a try at an e-issue, starting small, seeing where it goes. Let me know if you like it. It's got: Nick Mamatas reviewing A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy; Stephen Messer interviewing Durham author J.J. Johnson about her new novel Believarexic ahead of her appearance tomorrow at The Regulator Bookshop; an essay by J.M. McDermott about Nu Nu Yi's Smile as The

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Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, September 2015: Patrick Ness, Ian McDonald, Stephen Baxter, Margaret Atwood, and (of course) Adam Roberts

Posted on 2015-10-02 at 3:57 by montsamu

From the Other Side, September 2015 By Paul Kincaid

[Editor’s Note: From the Other Side is Paul Kincaid’s monthly column on books and news from the other side of the Atlantic.]

People who have lost just about everything they own are fleeing the war in Syria and risking their lives to cross into Europe, where they are met by governments covering their eyes and ears and trying to pretend that nothing terrible is happening. Then the picture of a dead boy and public opinion finally forces the government to

Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged ian mcdonald, margaret atwood, patrick ness, paul kincaid, stephen baxter

The Hardest Part: Karissa Laurel on Midnight Burning

Posted on 2015-09-16 at 20:28 by montsamu

Triangle author Karissa Laurel rides motorcycles and reads slush for Strange Horizons; clearly, she is not risk-averse. However, there's a difference between, on the one hand, putting body and mind on the line either on a quiet road or in the privacy of one's own office, and on the other hand, in her work as a the debut author of Midnight Burning from Garner-based Red Adept Publishing, putting her words forward for all to see, along with the other marketing and publicity that the "public persona" side of

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Paul Kincaid's From The Other Side, August 2015: Alasdair Gray, Terry Pratchett, Aliette de Bodard, Paul Cornell, China Miéville, and more

Posted on 2015-09-16 at 11:0 by montsamu

From the Other Side, August 2015 By Paul Kincaid

[Editor’s Note: From the Other Side is Paul Kincaid’s monthly column on books and news from the other side of the Atlantic.]

As I write this I am stuck in the sodden south of England, and I rather wish I could be in Scotland right now. I imagine it’s still raining there as well, but at least there’s the Edinburgh Festival, and in particular there’s the premiere of Lanark by David Greig. This is the long-awaited stage version of Alasdair Gray’s magnificent

Posted in From the Other Side | Tagged alasdair gray, aliette de bodard, china mieville, paul cornell, paul kincaid, terry pratchett

Coming to Town: Robert Beatty for Serafina and the Black Cloak at Quail Ridge Books and Triangle Reads Moveable Feast

Posted on 2015-09-15 at 19:10 by montsamu

Asheville author Robert Beatty has a problem we might wish on all of our favorite authors: his Disney-Hyperion debut novel Serafina and the Black Cloak is selling more quickly than it can be restocked, even by online behemoths Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. Historically-set at the end of the 19th century, the novel opens with the eponymous Serafina skulking through the shadows of the recently-completely Biltmore House, hunting rats. Before long, however, she's stumbled onto something far worse: a mysterious

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged quail ridge books, robert beatty

Friday Quick Updates: F. Hampton Carmine's Kindle Scout campaign; the Monster Mash 24-hour Flash Fiction Contest; the Bookmarks Festival in Winston-Salem; a news, interviews, and reviews roundup; upcoming events; and more

Posted on 2015-09-11 at 18:52 by montsamu

Friday, September 11, 2015: As of this writing, there are 23 days left (October 5) to nominate F. Hampton Carmine's Kindle Scout submission of Destiny's Handmaiden for publication: "Their birth began a time of endings and beginnings in Destiny's prophesy for The Dragon Isles. Many would become her tools, all would be transformed, but none more than Aislin. She suckled at the same breast, crawled and walked in the same nursery, studied with the same tutors, and felt like a twin. Languages, academics, courtly

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Coming to Town: Christopher Moore for Secondhand Souls at Quail Ridge Books

Posted on 2015-09-02 at 12:0 by montsamu

New York Times bestselling comic fantasy author Christopher Moore was last in town the May before last in support of The Serpent of Venice, the second of his novels after Fool to feature "Pocket", Moore's expanded and hilarious reinvention of The Fool from King Lear. He's also the author of Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal and Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art in which the apparent suicide of one Vincent van Gogh is investigated by a baker with whom van Gogh happens to have attended art

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged christopher moore, quail ridge books