Coming to Town

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Posted on 2014-09-23 at 14:36 by montsamu

Scott Westerfeld came to prominence a decade ago with his award-winning and best-selling dystopian young adult series "Uglies", then set his sights on a middle grade alternate history of Steampunk "Clankers" and gene-splicing "Darwinists" for his "Leviathan" series, a fantastically-illustrated (and narrated, by Alan Cumming) adventure-romp through WW1-era Europe by diesel-powered mech walkers, modified whale airships, and (perhaps) even stranger methods. It's been 3 years since Goliath concluded that series

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged afterworlds, mur lafferty, nanowrimo, quail ridge books, Scott Westerfeld

Coming to Town: Kim Harrison at Quail Ridge Books for The Witch with No Name

Posted on 2014-09-10 at 13:33 by montsamu

This is it. This is the big one. Kim Harrison's bestselling "Hollows" series kicked off with 2004's Dead Witch Walking and yesterday saw the publication of the concluding thirteenth novel, The Witch with No Name. Harrison has come through town on her tours for many of the previous books, most recently just back in March for The Undead Pool, and NC writer/editor Sharon Stogner reprises her role as "Coming to Town" interviewer ahead of Harrison's next local appearance, this Friday (September 12) at Raleigh's

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged kim harrison, quail ridge books, sharon stogner

Coming to Town: Stuart Rojstaczer for The Mathematician's Shiva

Posted on 2014-09-08 at 13:39 by montsamu

"Her craziness was happily wed to her intellect. There are no reasonable geniuses in this world, I am convinced." So writes middle-aged fictional geophysicist Alexander "Sasha" Karnokovitch of his mother, within the pages of actual geophysicist Stuart Rojstaczer's debut novel The Mathematician's Shiva. A brilliant mathematician, Rachela is rumored to be taking the secret proof to the Navier-Stokes equation to her grave. But first, and trust me, somehow this all works, Rojstaczer gives us alternating scenes

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged Stuart Rojstaczer, the mathematician's shiva, the regulator bookshop

Coming to Town, belated edition: Lev Grossman at Flyleaf Books for The Magician's Land

Posted on 2014-09-07 at 3:23 by montsamu

Lev Grossman was recently in the Carolinas for a stop on his tour for The Magician's Land, which debuted on the NY Times bestseller list at #1. At a "standing room only" event at Flyleaf Books, he talked about The Magicians and The Magician King, read from The Magician's Land, and engaged in a lively Q&A session with the audience. Since, he has also just appeared at The Bookmarks Festival of Books and Authors in Winston-Salem; previously, he was a guest of the North Carolina Literary Festival in April, as

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged flyleaf books, lev grossman, the magician's land

Coming to Town: Deborah Harkness for The Book of Life, interviewed by Sharon Stogner

Posted on 2014-07-22 at 19:8 by montsamu

Deborah Harkness was at Raleigh's Quail Ridge Books on Saturday as part of her ongoing tour for The Book of Life, the highly-anticipated final installment of the bestselling All Souls Trilogy which began with A Discovery of Witches. The sequel Shadow of Night debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and in total, over one million copies have been sold in the States with publications following in 38 countries. While we couldn't have this interview for you prior to her reading and signing, Quail

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged deborah harkness, quail ridge books, sharon stogner

Coming to Town: D.B. Jackson (David B. Coe) at Quail Ridge Books for A Plunder of Souls, interviewed by Margaret S. McGraw

Posted on 2014-07-18 at 16:34 by montsamu

D.B. Jackson (also known to fantasy readers as David B. Coe) is an Award-winning author of fifteen published novels. He’s currently on a book signing tour to promote the newly released A Plunder of Souls, third in the Thieftaker Chronicles, and will be at Raleigh’s Quail Ridge Books and Music on Monday, July 21^st, at 7:30pm. Jackson is a frequent visitor in the Carolinas, including the South Carolina Writers’ Workshop, ConCarolinas in Charlotte, and most recently, ConGregate in Winston-Salem. Here, Jackson

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged david b coe, db jackson, margaret s mcgraw, quail ridge books

Coming to Town: Jeff VanderMeer at Quail Ridge Books for Authority, interviewed by Mur Lafferty

Posted on 2014-07-08 at 19:12 by montsamu

Tallahassee author Jeff VanderMeer has been no stranger to the Carolinas, both through his work teaching at the SharedWorlds teen writing summer camp at Wofford College and quite a few events over the years. We're thrilled to be welcoming him back again this year as part of his Southern Reach Summer Tour which includes 4 stops in the Carolinas in just over a week, starting and ending with Wednesday events (July 9th and 16th) at Hub City in Spartanburg, SC around readings on Thursday (July 10th) at Raleigh’s

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged jeff vandermeer, mur lafferty, quail ridge books

Coming to Town: Dave Lee for ConTemporal, interviewed by Paul Cory

Posted on 2014-06-25 at 16:1 by montsamu

ConTemporal is this weekend (June 27-29) at the Hilton North Raleigh/Midtown, and artist guest of honor Dave Lee is one of dozens of guests coming to town for the event. Lee's travel isn't too far, as his Hatton Cross Steampunk is located in Gloucester VA. An accomplished and award-winning Steampunk artist, he is also an author: his Steampunk western novel entitled Country in Ruin:1865 is published through HCS Publishing and its sequel World in Ruin:1870 is due out in 2014. Here, Lee took the time for some

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged contemporal, dave lee, paul cory

Coming to Town: Mary Robinette Kowal for Valour and Vanity at Quail Ridge Books

Posted on 2014-05-10 at 17:29 by montsamu

Raleigh native Mary Robinette Kowal has not been a stranger: she launched her debut novel (and with it her Glamourist Histories series), Shades of Milk and Honey in August 2010 at NASFIC in Raleigh; a year ago today she returned for book 3, Without a Summer; in January this year she was co-guest-of-honor at illogiCon; and! on Monday (May 12) at 7:30 pm, she's back again, this time to close her tour for book 4, Valour and Vanity, at Quail Ridge Books. Her events are always fantastic: Regency attire, a

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged mary robinette kowal, quail ridge books

Coming to Town: Alena Graedon for The Word Exchange at The Regulator Bookshop, Flyleaf Books, and McIntyre's Books

Posted on 2014-04-27 at 14:4 by montsamu

Durham native Alena Graedon's debut novel The Word Exchange was released in early April, and she's bringing the book "home" from Brooklyn for three events this week in the Triangle area: Tuesday April 29 at The Regulator Bookshop (7 pm), Thursday May 1 at Flyleaf Books (7 pm), and Saturday May 3 at McIntyre's Books (11 am). Called "a dystopian novel for the digital age", The Word Exchange offers an inventive, suspenseful, and decidedly original vision of the dangers of technology and of the enduring power

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged alena graedon, flyleaf books, mcintyres books, the regulator bookshop, the word exchange

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