Page 6 of posts filed: Coming to Town

Coming to Town, link edition: Zack Smith interviews William Shatner about "Shatner's World"

Posted on 2014-01-09 at 15:12 by montsamu

Local writer Zack Smith has had some fantastic, fantastic interviews over the years. But this one, I mean, c'mon. He talked via phone with Shatner! On his blog, Zack posts his full/extended interview with the actor ahead of "Shatner's World: We Just Live In It", Shatner's one man show in Raleigh on Sunday evening. A compressed version of the interview appears in this week's Independent Weekly. In the full interview, Shatner talks about how this one-man show started and grew, about Chapel Hill musician Ben

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged shatner's world, william shatner, zack smith

Coming to Town: Laura Anne Gilman for illogiCon, interviewed by Jaym Gates

Posted on 2014-01-07 at 3:55 by montsamu

Author Laura Anne Gilman joined the illogiCon guest roster a few months back, and now I'm very happy to have her on bullspec.com's "Coming to Town" series, the first of hopefully a few features on the incoming illogiCon guests and other panelists. Gilman is the author of multiple fantasy series including Retrievers, Paranormal Scene Investigators, Grail Quest, and The Vineart War, along with media tie-in and other novels, non-fiction books, not to mention a long list of short stories, on and on. She'll be

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged illogicon, jaym gates, laura anne gilman

Coming to Town: Steven Brust for The Incrementalists, interviewed by Richard Dansky

Posted on 2013-09-30 at 1:40 by montsamu

By Richard Dansky:

26 novels (and 1 solo album) into his career, Steven Brust still isn’t afraid to take chances. Visiting Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill on October 2nd in support of his new novel, The Incrementalists -- co-written with Skyler White -- Brust is best known for his centuries-spanning Dragaera series. But with a bibliography that includes everything from a high fantasy retelling of Paradise Lost (To Reign In Hell) to an Ohio vampire story (Agyar) to a multiple volume tribute to the works of

Posted in Coming to Town, interviews | Tagged richard dansky, steven brust

Coming to Town: Emily Croy Barker for The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

Posted on 2013-09-17 at 16:58 by montsamu

Greensboro native and current New Jerseyan Emily Croy Barker has two events in NC this week in support of her debut novel, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic, out earlier this summer from Pamela Dorman Books/Viking. The book garnered significant pre-release praise, from iO9 to Glamour to The Los Angeles Times, including being named to the August Indie Next List -- accompanied by a review from The Regulator Bookshop's Tonie Lilley: “The great thing about Nora, the titular ‘thinking woman,’ is that she

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Coming to Town: Jason Mott for The Returned

Posted on 2013-08-26 at 20:9 by montsamu

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged flyleaf books, jason mott, the returned

Coming to Town: Richard Kadrey for Kill City Blues, interviewed by Richard Dansky

Posted on 2013-08-26 at 14:14 by montsamu

[Editor's note: this is the first in a new, hopefully-many-more-where-this-came-from series in which authors and other creators "coming to town" for an event answer a few questions for the website. I hope you enjoy! -Sam]

By Richard Dansky:

Five books into his wildly popular and critically acclaimed Sandman Slim series, Richard Kadrey is a significant voice in urban fantasy. Coming to Flyleaf Books on Thursday August 29th in the wake of Kill City Blues, the fifth book in the Sandman Slim cycle, Kadrey

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged richard dansky, richard kadrey