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Scheduled and scheduling.

Posted on 2010-08-03 at 1:57 by montsamu

First, some upcoming things which didn't make Issue #2's "Happenings" which I've recently learned about:

  • I had local author John Claude Bemis' The Wolf Tree in Happenings, but not the book's launch party at Purple Crow Books in Hillsborough on August 28
  • Brandon Sanderson is reading and signing from Way of Kings: The Stormlight Archive, Vol. 1 at Quail Ridge Books on September 7 at 7:30 PM
  • William Gibson (!!!) is bringing his Zero History tour to Duke University on September 21 at 7:00 PM

Second, and on the

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The ReConStruction/NASFiC programming schedule is out!

Posted on 2010-07-30 at 1:9 by montsamu

There is some great programming, from steampunk to podcasting and all manner of things between. Behold! The ReConStruction/NASFiC program schedule is out! And paired with the daily membership rates, those folks who have waited to get their plans (and memberships) together can start to figure things out.

(And don't forget, if you're either already in town or coming into town a day early, Wednesday August 4th, come to the 7:30 Bull Spec #2 party at Quail Ridge Books!)

And there's some fun things to talk about

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Another UK shipping sale!

Posted on 2010-07-27 at 21:5 by montsamu

Well, putting together a UK shipment with a local reshipper, and this time I'm going to give folks a bit more time to get in on things. Until Monday morning EST (Update: extended to Wednesday, August 4th!), UK folks can order Bull Spec #1 and/or Bull Spec #2 and select "US Shipping". I'm not ready to commit to better subscription shipping rates yet, but I think I'm getting closer. (Sorry Australia, I haven't strong armed a friend/acquaintance into being a reshipper there, yet.)

Also: shipping is marginally

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Truth in submissions; getting help; making progress; more stores.

Posted on 2010-07-27 at 0:34 by montsamu

OK. I do have some stories as old as November that I've been holding onto; I'm going to grow up "real soon now" and let those folks know one way or the other. Back when I opened, I expected a few submissions, and to publish one story a quarter, and threw out a guesstimate of responding within 30 days. I'm far, far from doing that; 60 days is probably closer to the median, 90 days not incredibly uncommon before I drop all the other things I need to do and keep things from rolling over to 100 for too many

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Issue #3 original fiction is set.

Posted on 2010-07-25 at 12:0 by montsamu

Though it's still 2 months away, issue #3's original fiction is set: 5 stories, from Katherine Sparrow, David Steffen, Lavie Tidhar, Melinda Dansky, and Denali Hyatt.

Again hearkening back to "the kind of story I opened Bull Spec to publish" (a happy, lucky theme for me) is Katherine Sparrow's 4600-word "Like Parchment in the Fire." A very hard to categorize story, the author offered that it "has a radical alternative history vibe." Definitely. A story which brings 17th century Britain's "True Levelers" to

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Another round of fun things.

Posted on 2010-07-22 at 23:37 by montsamu

First off: I know I have some queries to answer and stories to read. (I also have some stores to invoice and need to figure out how to deposit checks made out to "Bull Spec." Those are good problems to have, though!) But here's a quick 3-step of fun:


  1. The audio download for the WUNC "The State of Things" show on Bull Spec and local speculative fiction is available here. So if you missed it, check it out! It was fun, John Kessel was amazing, Richard Dansky had some great answers, and contributors Natania

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Tune into WUNC's "The State of Things" on Wednesday July 21!

Posted on 2010-07-19 at 19:58 by montsamu

Fans of Bull Spec or whomever else, tune into WUNC's "The State of Things" on Wednesday, July 21st at noon! Guests will include Bull Spec's Samuel Montgomery-Blinn, NCSU professor and award-winning author John Kessel, game designer and author Richard Dansky, and maybe more. Don't miss it! We'll be talking speculative fiction, NASFiC/ReConStruction, ...

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An absolute mess of updates. (Bull Spec #2 PDF is available!)

Posted on 2010-07-15 at 3:29 by montsamu

Not much time so:

  1. A whole bunch of Bull Spec #2 mailings just went out
  2. Bull Spec #2 is in stock at: Sci-Fi Genre; Barnes and Noble of Southpoint; Ultimate Comics Prime; Chapel Hill Comics; Internationalist Books; Flyleaf Books; The Regulator Bookshop; Barnes and Noble of Cary; and Quail Ridge Books. I didn't make it to Foundation's Edge or All Fun & Games yet; a handy helper is taking copies to Storyteller's for me
  3. Bull Spec #2 PDF is available for download
  4. Acceptances! to Denali Hyatt and Preston Grassmann
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BULL SPEC #2 is available for pre-order!

Posted on 2010-06-30 at 18:4 by montsamu

It's looking like July 6th at the earliest for the issue to be in my hands, but that's no reason to keep folks from reserving their copy. So, after a heck of a lot of hard work, and thanks to some great contributors, BULL SPEC #2 is now available to pre-order!

With cover art by the awesome Vladimir Krizan, stories from Melissa Mead, Uri Grey, Gwendolyn Clare, Paul Celmer, and Kaolin Fire; the continuation of the graphic story "Closed System" by Mike Gallagher; an excerpt of Richard Dansky's "North Carolina

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Some acceptances. OK, a lot of acceptances.

Posted on 2010-06-27 at 4:41 by montsamu

Not as much fanfare as I might like to give them, but I realized I: (1) didn't even feature here a few more acceptances from issue #1; (2) never mentioned here a pretty long list now of acceptances for issue #2 and further. So, without, ahem, further adieu:


Issue #1:

After deciding to make the move to a print magazine, I had one story firmly in my hands for this issue already, C. S. Fuqua's "Rise Up." Wanting very much to find a local author, and not having a terribly big budget left over for original fiction

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