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Announcement: World Book Night / NC Speculative Fiction Night / Bull Spec #8 Launch Party!
Posted on 2013-03-22 at 2:14 by montsamu
North Carolina Speculative Fiction Night
Presented by Bull Spec Magazine
Hosted by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn and Jaym Gates
Celebrating World Book Night, North Carolina Authors, and Bull Spec Magazine
Atomic Empire, 7pm, Tuesday, April 23, 2013
3400 Westgate Drive, Suite 14B
Durham, NC 27707
Special Guests
Rich Dansky, Steve Long, Justin Achilli, Matthew Ross
Bull Spec Magazine Contributors
Gwendolyn Clare, Rich Matrunick, Brenda Kalt, Peter Wood and Paul Celmer, Alice Holleman
Join fellow writers, artists
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Friday quick updates: Big event announcements, The Court of Air, book groups, ConTemporal visits UNC-TV, and more
Posted on 2013-03-15 at 17:4 by montsamu
First, two major event announcements, in brief as we're still working on the full write-ups for both. But, since beans are spilling left and right:
- Tuesday, April 23, 7 to 9 pm: Durham's Atomic Empire (formerly Sci-Fi Genre Comics & Games) hosts a World Book Night / NC Speculative Fiction Night / Bull Spec #8 Launch Party! Confirmed participants include Richard Dansky, Steve Long, Justin Achilli, Jaym Gates, Matthew Ross, and Bull Spec #8 contributors Gwendolyn Clare, Rich Matrunick, Brenda Kalt, Alice
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Friday Quick Updates: Kotecki/McHugh at Quail Ridge, new James Maxey audiobook, a new monthly sf reading group, and ConTemporal visits UNC-TV
Posted on 2013-03-08 at 17:46 by montsamu
Well, another Friday has come around, and while there's "only" one event on my calendar this weekend (Nathan Kotecki and PT McHugh at Quail Ridge Books on Saturday at 3 pm) there's some other things to report as well:
- James Maxey is interviewed on Gail Z. Martin's Ghost in the Machine Podcast
- Maxey's first Dragon Age novel, Bitterwood, is now out in audiobook format
- There's a new monthly sf reading and discussion group starting up, to be held every third Thursday of the month at Raleigh's NC Museum of
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Friday Quick Updates: Ariel Djanikian, David Drake, Unpublished Games, StellarCon, ...
Posted on 2013-03-01 at 19:57 by montsamu
Even if you're not heading over to StellarCon today (or Saturday, or Sunday) there's enough to do in the Triangle this weekend to make a mini-con of it without straying too far from US-15/501. Meanwhile!
- Mur Lafferty's superhero novel Playing For Keeps is in the "Bundle of Holding", a pay-what-you-want, DRM-free bundle of fiction ebooks from a big list of RPG writers including Mur, Matt Forbeck, Chuck Wendig, and more. Check it out: http://murverse.com/playing-for-keeps-in-the-bundle-of-holding/
- Andy
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Friday quick updates: Feb 22, 2013
Posted on 2013-02-22 at 20:10 by montsamu
Hopefully some of you were among the excellent crowds at the Cory Doctorow and Brandon Sanderson events this past week. Speaking of crowds, there's sure to be quite a few people taking in both the Nevermore Horror Film Festival this weekend in Durham, and the sf convention MystiCon in Roanoke, VA. Here's what coming up in the next two weeks:
[And here's a handout flyer for wide distribution!]
FEBRUARY 2013
22-24 (Friday-Sunday) — Durham’s Carolina Theatre hosts the Nevermore Film Festival. More info: htt
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Video for Cory Doctorow's talk at Flyleaf Books
Posted on 2013-02-18 at 0:5 by montsamu
Calvin Powers, as he's done for some previous events, has posted a video from Cory Doctorow's talk on privacy and technology and other topics at Flyleaf Books yesterday. While I certainly have more to say about the excellent, interesting, and frankly inspiring event, the video is definitely worth sharing around. Check it out!
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Friday quick updates: Cory Doctorow tomorrow at 2 pm, Brandon Sanderson on Wednesday night
Posted on 2013-02-15 at 22:6 by montsamu
With two of the biggest events of the year in the next five days, it's a fun time to be a speculative fiction fan in the Triangle. You can still help spread the word, either by inviting friends via the Facebook links below, or posting or sharing or passing out one of the current flyers for the upcoming events:
FEBRUARY:
16 (Saturday) 2 pm — Flyleaf Books hosts Cory Doctorow for Homeland, sequel to Little Brother. More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/530598563635194/
16 (Saturday) 9 pm til late
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Friday Quick Updates: Beth Revis and Morgan Rhodes on Monday! One week 'til Doctorow! Two 'til Sanderson!
Posted on 2013-02-08 at 21:40 by montsamu
Hello and welcome to Friday February 8th. There are several events early next week, and of course Cory Doctorow at Flyleaf Books next Saturday (the 16th), and Brandon Sanderson at Quail Ridge Books the following Wednesday (the 20th) -- and also some brief news notes and mentions:
- The latest episode of the Carolina Book Beat podcast is my hour-long talk from January about 2012 and 2013 in local and regional sf/f books: http://carolinabookbeat.com/2013/02/07/the-latest-from-carolina-book-beat-36/
- Hey
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Friday quick updates, February 1
Posted on 2013-02-01 at 17:8 by montsamu
Some quick updates this Friday, including two events tomorrow (Saturday February 2 -- yes, today is February, and tomorrow is too), some fun local author news, and, hey, some local bookstore friendly e-reader news which is highly applicable to that fun local author news. (And now a bonus update!)
First, the events:
2 (Saturday) 3 pm — Quail Ridge Books hosts NY Times bestselling urban fantasy author and NC native Kim Harrison for Ever After, the latest in her Hollows series. More info: https://www
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WUNC's The State of Things to air interview with Samuel R. Delany
Posted on 2013-01-24 at 15:32 by montsamu
Today (Thursday Jan 24) in the noon hour Eastern Time, WUNC's The State of Things will have author Samuel R. Delany on in a taped phone interview segment. It will broadcast over the airwaves state-wide at noon, with a re-broadcast at 9 pm. Additionally, at both broadcast times, Internet listening is available through both MP3 streaming and Windows Media streaming, and later today the segment should be available on the show's podcast, to which you can subscribe or check for episode listings both for iTunes a
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