The Hardest Part

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Posted on 2014-11-20 at 21:40 by montsamu

It's been a long time since we had a true "NC Speculative Fiction Night" and for the return of the reading series this Saturday, November 22 at Quail Ridge Books, you can blame Jaym Gates as instigator. As she has been as long as I've known her, she's been a busy author and editor of late -- most recently and notably a story in Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters and co-editing the anthology of which this essay speaks -- not to mention her continuing work as the Communications Director for SFWA and several

Posted in Coming to Town, The Hardest Part | Tagged jaym gates, quail ridge books, war stories

The Hardest Part: Teresa Frohock on The Broken Road

Posted on 2014-11-13 at 19:20 by montsamu

North Carolina author Teresa Frohock's debut fantasy novel Miserere was published by Night Shade Books back in 2011, and since she has been seen in a couple of anthologies: Manifesto: UF and Neverland's Library Fantasy Anthology. Now she's back with a more lengthy tale, this time a novella, The Broken Road, where "The world of Lehbet is under siege. The threads that divide Lehbet from the mirror world of Heled are fraying, opening the way for an invasion by an alien enemy that feeds on human flesh." Here

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged teresa frohock, the broken road

The Hardest Part: Stacey Cochran on Eddie and Sunny

Posted on 2014-11-12 at 16:57 by montsamu

Raleigh author Stacey Cochran has written in several genres, from mystery to horror, science fiction to poetry. His latest project, Eddie & Sunny, is a crime novel / love story he's elected to submit to the newly launched Kindle Scout program, a "crowdsourced slush reading" publishing project from Amazon which puts the choice of submitted books to reader votes; the winners receive a $1,500 advance and editing, design, and marketing support. This would be a big deal for Cochran's writing career, so if what

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The Hardest Part: James Maxey on Bad Wizard

Posted on 2014-11-05 at 19:7 by montsamu

Hillsborough author James Maxey is the author of superhero novels Nobody Gets the Girl and Burn Baby Burn, two epic fantasy series (Bitterwood and The Dragon Apocalypse), and a short fiction collection There Is No Wheel. Here he writes about his new novel Bad Wizard, the story of Dorothy Gale ten years after she returns from Oz. "Oz" has been fertile ground for authors to poke around in, from Gregory Maguire's Wicked to John Kessel's The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Geoff Ryman's Was, and Maxey

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged bad wizard, james maxey

The Hardest Part: Lex Wilson on KLAY

Posted on 2014-10-31 at 14:51 by montsamu

I'm a big fan of both Lex Wilson and Jason Strutz, so I was quite excited to see their new 7-day-only "Quickstarter" Kickstarter campaign for their new one-shot comic, KLAY. It's foggy in my memory how long I've known each; Lex through his Eagle Award winning comics work, and his absolutely hilarious performance of his own "Romeo and Meatbox" story at a Flyleaf Books event, goggling to see him as an extra on ABC's Revolution, and of course his recent work on the "Islands" radioplay. Strutz was (along with

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged jason strutz, klay, lex wilson

The Hardest Part: Gail Z. Martin on writing multiple series

Posted on 2014-10-29 at 20:35 by montsamu

Charlotte author Gail Z. Martin is now really no stranger to Bull Spec’s ongoing guest column series The Hardest Part, as she wrote about launching a new epic fantasy universe with Ice Forged in January 2013, and then a year ago about making the jump to urban fantasy with Deadly Curiosities. Now she's back in this column as part of her annual #DaysOfTheDead blog tour and I couldn't be happier to be sending along her thoughts on maintaining muliple series in multiple genres as she picks up a new Steampunk

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged gail z. martin

The Hardest Part: Ryan Hill on Dead New World

Posted on 2014-10-23 at 18:26 by montsamu

Raleigh author Ryan Hill is the author of two books, both out this year from Curiosity Quills Press. In May, it was his debut novel The Book of Bart, a novel of angels, demons, Templars, swearing, and sarcasm. Earlier this month saw the publication of his second novel, Dead New World, which begins a new trilogy: "Zombies aren’t mindless anymore. Before the world fell into chaos, the undead existed only in the imagination. Now, more of them walk the earth than living. Zombies move about freely, while humans

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged dead new world, ryan hill

The Hardest Part/Coming to Town: Beth Revis on The Body Electric

Posted on 2014-10-16 at 18:11 by montsamu

North Carolina author Beth Revis achieved fantastic critical and commercial success with her Across the Universe series, a young adult science fiction trilogy about "a love out of time and a spaceship built of secrets and murder" that has been translated into more than 20 languages. For The Body Electric, Revis once again offers a young adult science fiction novel, this time focused on memory, identity, and trust: "The future world is at peace. Ella Shepherd has dedicated her life to using her unique gift

Posted in Coming to Town, The Hardest Part | Tagged beth revis, flyleaf books, quail ridge books

The Hardest Part: Jenna Black on The Gifted Dead

Posted on 2014-09-24 at 14:31 by montsamu

When I asked author Jenna Black, whose Nikki Glass books have been published by Pocket Books, Faeriewalker series by St. Martin's Griffin, Guardians of the Night series and Replica by Tor, and Morgan Kingsley series by Dell, what the hardest part of her latest novel had been, I thought I knew what I was going to get. Black had elected to self-publish the first book of a new contemporary fantasy series, The Gifted Dead, and I'd assumed that making that decision had weighed quite heavily on her. Not so, I

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged jenna black, the gifted dead

The Hardest Part: T. Kingfisher on Toad Words and Other Stories

Posted on 2014-09-17 at 19:0 by montsamu

In early August, NC author T. Kingfisher published a new collection Toad Words and Other Stories, a "collection of fairy-tale retellings for adults. By turns funny and dark, sad and lyrical, this anthology draws together in one volume such stories as 'The Wolf and the Woodsman', 'Loathly', and 'Bluebeard's Wife', along with an all-new novella, 'Boar & Apples'." While many of the stories had previously appeared in various forms on the author's blog, having substantial new content and a trove of stories to

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged t kingfisher, toad words and other stories, ursula vernon

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