Page 7 of posts filed: The Hardest Part

The Hardest Part: J.L. Hilton on Stellarnet Prince

Posted on 2012-11-21 at 17:20 by montsamu

Raleigh author J.L. Hilton's debut novel Stellarnet Rebel was published by Harlequin imprint Carina Press in January, with a release party at Tir Na Nog. A fitting place, as the space station at the center of the novel contains an Irish Pub and one of the book's protagonists, Genny O'Riordan, well, you can probably guess by the name. (Also, there's a certain shortage of local Glin establishments, though that's more than understandable considering it is one of the alien races invented by Hilton for the book.

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The Hardest Part: Michael Jasper on A Lasting Cure for Magic

Posted on 2012-11-15 at 3:18 by montsamu

Wake Forest author Michael Jasper has been writing and publishing stories and novels for quite a while now. A graduate of the 1996 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop and 1997 graduate of the North Carolina State Masters Program in Creative Writing, with his professional sf/f career beginning with "Mud and Salt" in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XVI in 2000. A collection (Gunning for the Buddha) and two novels (The Wannoshay Cycle and A Gathering of Doorways) followed

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The Hardest Part: Nathan Kotecki on The Suburban Strange

Posted on 2012-11-07 at 22:7 by montsamu

Durham author Nathan Kotecki's debut novel is a young adult urban fantasy novel The Suburban Strange [Goodreads | IndieBound], and he is as a self-described  "classic literature snob" who has never read Twilight or Harry Potter. Cue the contradictions? Maybe not, as you may learn in this week's "The Hardest Part". Writing outside the influence of these commercial juggernauts gave Kotecki some freedom to follow his own storytelling urges -- and also led to an interesting revision process both with his agent

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The Hardest Part: Alex Granados on Cemetery Plot

Posted on 2012-10-31 at 18:15 by montsamu

Out just in time for Halloween, Crushing Hearts and Black Butterfly Publishing has published Cemetery Plot, the debut novel by local writer, North Raleigh News columnist, and WUNC "The State of Things" director Alex Granados. I first met Alex through a pre-interview phone call, and before long he had joined the Bull Spec team as an associate fiction editor, helping me decide on stories, offer some story edits here and there, and contributing an article here and there as well. I've been very excited to start

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The Hardest Part: David Tallerman on Crown Thief

Posted on 2012-10-17 at 19:11 by montsamu

British author David Tallerman's short story "The Burning Room" appeared in Bull Spec #4 and was later included in Ellen Datlow’s online Full Honorable Mention List for Best Horror of the Year volume 4. Tallerman has published dozens and dozens short stories across fantasy, science fiction, and horror, and what I've managed to get my hands on has been of the spookier or more serious variety; as a comment on his December 2010 story "Jenny's Sick" at Lightspeed Magazine describes his stories, "Haunting, but

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The Hardest Part: Tina Connolly on Ironskin

Posted on 2012-10-10 at 17:3 by montsamu

Portland author Tina Connolly is a Clarion West graduate and the author of a long and growing list of well-received short stories, including "Selling Home" in Bull Spec #6. She's also a podcast narrator, both out and about on several podcasts and on her own, the bite-sized fiction podcast Toasted Cake, which won this year's Parsec Award for best new podcast. Her just-released debut fantasy novel Ironskin tells a story which is more complex than the intriguing but reductive tagline "Jane Eyre with fairies

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The Hardest Part: Daniel Rabuzzi on The Indigo Pheasant

Posted on 2012-10-03 at 18:33 by montsamu

New York City author Daniel A. Rabuzzi's debut novel The Choir Boats was published by ChiZine Publications in 2009 as part one of a two-volume fantasy series, Longing for Yount, described by reviewers as “Gulliver's Travels crossed with The Golden Compass and a dollop of Pride and Prejudice,” and “a muscular, Napoleonic-era fantasy that, like Philip Pullman's Dark Materials series, will appeal to both adult and young adult readers.” Just published in September, The Indigo Pheasant concludes Rabuzzi's series

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The Hardest Part: David Drake on Night & Demons

Posted on 2012-09-26 at 14:0 by montsamu

Pittsboro author David Drake has had a long and prolific writing career, and when I saw his recent newsletter mention the word count of new introductions for his new collection Night & Demons (Baen, October 2), I thought I knew what I would get when I asked him what the hardest part of putting together the new collection was: "The story introductions total around 12,000 words and are as much autobiography as you’re likely to get from me." However, it turns out it wasn't the words themselves or their number,

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The Hardest Part: Nick Mamatas on Bullettime

Posted on 2012-09-19 at 17:14 by montsamu

[Editor's note: this debuts a new weekly Wednesday feature, "The Hardest Part", where creators talk about the hardest part of putting together their most recent book or other work.]

Nick Mamatas is the Hugo-nominated editor of Haikasoru, an imprint of VIZ Media which brings Japanese science fiction and fantasy to "America and beyond". He's also the co-editor with Masumi Washington of the May-released anthology The Future is Japanese, the co-editor with Ellen Datlow of the 2010-released, Bram Stoker Award

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