Page 5 of posts filed: Coming to Town

Coming to Town: Ann VanderMeer for The Time Traveler's Almanac at Flyleaf Books on Monday April 21 at 7 pm

Posted on 2014-04-18 at 16:14 by montsamu

Multiple award-winning editor Ann VanderMeer has been a frequent visitor to the Carolinas, both as an instructor at the SharedWorlds teen summer writing camp at Wofford College and multiple events both at Asheville's Malaprop's Bookstore and in the Triangle. In her 3rd appearance in the Triangle in the past 4 years, she will be at Chapel Hill's Flyleaf Books on Monday, April 21, as part of a tour for The Time Traveler's Almanac, a definitive, nearly 1000 page anthology of time travel stories. The tour

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged ann vandermeer, flyleaf books, malaprops bookstore

Coming to Town: Alexandra Duncan for Salvage, as part of Sunday's panel on powerful women in YA literature at Flyleaf Books

Posted on 2014-04-11 at 20:47 by montsamu

A week ago, Asheville author Alexandra Duncan contributed a "Hardest Part" guest post. Now she's back as a "Coming to Town" interviewee ahead of her appearance this Sunday at 2 pm as part of Flyleaf Books' Girl Power!: A Panel on Powerful Women in Young Adult Literature featuring Jessica Spotswood, Nathan Kotecki, Meagan Spooner, and Alexandra Duncan. We talked briefly about, well, the obvious: powerful women in YA lit, how the event was put together, and her just-released debut novel Salvage.

When

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged alexandra duncan, flyleaf books

Coming to Town: Kim Harrison for The Undead Pool

Posted on 2014-03-07 at 14:42 by montsamu

In 2004, HarperTorch published Dead Witch Walking, and Kim Harrison's urban fantasy "Hollows" series has since grown into a best-selling mainstay. In late February, HarperVoyager published book 12, The Undead Pool, in the continuing adventures of witch and day-walking demon Rachel Morgan, and Harrison was back on tour. As did last year's tour for Ever After, this year's tour brings her back to Quail Ridge Books tonight (Friday, March 7) at 7:30 pm. Harrison was kind enough to take some time in the middle of

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

Coming to Town: Margaret Killjoy for A Country of Ghosts

Posted on 2014-03-04 at 13:47 by montsamu

I have only myself to blame, but I only heard about Margaret Killjoy's forthcoming anarchist utopian novel A Country of Ghosts late last week and only over the weekend about his event tonight. Still, Killjoy, the founder of SteamPunk Magazine, co-editor of  the essay anthology We Are Many: Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation, and the author of the choose-your-own-adventure  What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower, found some last-minute time to answer a few questions about his book

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged a country of ghosts, combustion books, internationalist books, margaret killjoy

Coming to Town: Megan Shepherd for Her Dark Curiosity and "The Lovestruck Tour"

Posted on 2014-02-18 at 15:26 by montsamu

The Lovestruck Tour features four YA authors -- Megan Hansen Shepherd (Her Dark Curiosity), Megan Miranda (Fracture), Kasie West (Pivot Point), and Robin Constantine (The Promise of Amazing) -- and five bookstores: Asheville's Malaprop's Bookstore on Wednesday, February 19 at 7 pm; Raleigh's Quail Ridge Books on Thursday at 7 pm; Chapel Hill's Flyleaf Books on Friday at 7 pm; Greenville, South Carolina's Fiction Addiction on Saturday at 4 pm; and Decatur, Georgia's Little Shop of Stories on Monday, February

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged her dark curiuosity, megan shepherd, stephen messer, the lovestruck tour, the madman's daughter

Coming to Town, post-visit edition: Deborah Johnson for The Secret of Magic

Posted on 2014-02-14 at 17:34 by montsamu

Mississippi author Deborah Johnson has spent the last few weeks on tour, since the publication of her second novel, The Secret of Magic, in print and ebook from Amy Einhorn Books. From Mississippi, through Alabama, Georgia, and this weekend in western North Carolina with events in Boone and Winston-Salem, leading up to two events this past week in the Triangle Area: Monday night at Quail Ridge Books at 7:30 pm and Tuesday night at Flyleaf Books at 7 pm. The novel is an historical fiction set in Mississippi

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged deborah johnson, flyleaf books, quail ridge books, the secret of magic

Coming to Town: Wendy Webb for The Vanishing, interviewed by Richard Dansky

Posted on 2014-01-28 at 16:33 by montsamu

Interview by Richard Dansky:

Think “Gothic” and you might not immediately think Minnesota, but Wendy Webb is working on changing that perception. Building on a writing career that began as a journalist for a Twin Cities arts & entertainment weekly, she’s published three critically and commercially successful gothic novels set in her home state. The third, The Vanishing [ebook], was released in January 2014, and in support of the book, she’s visiting Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill on Saturday, February 1st

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged flyleaf books, gothic, richard dansky, the vanishing, wendy webb

Coming to Town: Carrie Vaughn for Dreams of the Golden Age, interviewed by James Maxey

Posted on 2014-01-13 at 13:0 by montsamu

As the author of the "Kitty Norville" urban fantasy series Carrie Vaughn has built a career and a following, and her origin story as a writer includes the 1998 Odyssey Writing Workshop and a long string of short story publications, including a Hugo Award nomination for "Amaryllis" and multiple appearances in George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards superhero book series. In 2011, Tor published her superhero novel After the Golden Age, and now Vaughn is out on tour for the January 7, 2014-published sequel, Dreams of

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged after the golden age, carrie vaughn, dreams of the golden age, james maxey, quail ridge books

Coming to Town: Misty Massey for illogiCon, interviewed by Edmund R. Schubert

Posted on 2014-01-09 at 22:0 by montsamu

Misty Massey is the author of Mad Kestrel (Tor Books), a rollicking adventure of magic on the high seas which was nominated for the 2010 SCASL Book Award. Misty is one of the featured writers on the MagicalWords.net blog, along with David B. Coe and Faith Hunter. When she’s not writing, she studies Middle Eastern dance. Misty’s short fiction has recently appeared in the Rum and Runestones anthology (Dragon Moon Press) and the Dragon’s Lure anthology (Dark Quest Books). A sequel to Mad Kestrel, Kestrel’s

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged edmund r schubert, illogicon, magical words, misty massey

Coming to Town: Lawrence M. Schoen for illogiCon, interviewed by Ada Milenkovic Brown

Posted on 2014-01-09 at 21:32 by montsamu

Author, Klingon expert, and certified hypnotist Lawrence M. Schoen is one of the guests of honor at illogiCon this weekend (Jan 10-12) in Raleigh. He holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. He spent ten years as a college professor, and has done extensive research in the areas of human memory and language. This background provides a principal metaphor for his fiction, for which he was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2007. He received a Hugo Award

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged ada milenkovic brown, illogicon, lawrence m schoen