Posts tagged: monica byrne
The Hardest Part: Monica Byrne on The Girl in the Road
Posted on 2014-05-28 at 18:27 by montsamu
Durham author Monica Byrne's debut novel The Girl in the Road hit bookstores (and audiobook stores) last week, and both prior to and after publication the glowing reviews have piled up (from big names like Neil Gaiman, Kim Stanley Robinson, John Scalzi, and Helene Wecker, to blogs and ezines like Everyday eBook, to NPR and The Wall Street Journal). But it's been a long, er, ahem, road for this writer, from dreaming of becoming an astronaut to "falling back in love" with her artistic impulses: writing
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May newsletter: Mary Robinette Kowal tonight (Monday), new books from David Drake and Monica Byrne, ConCarolinas with George R.R. Martin, and more
Posted on 2014-05-12 at 13:43 by montsamu
Vol 4. No 5. May 12, 2014: Whew! In a month which kicked off with readings from Alena Graedon, Jay Posey, and Christopher Moore, Free Comic Book Day festivities and a "May the Fourth Be With You" burlesque, and when there's a reading TONIGHT from Mary Robinette Kowal, I'm quite a bit late on the May newsletter. Better late than never?
Let's start with the new books. The first week of April brought a crop already covered in the April newsletter, and the rest of the month saw two more local releases: Mistres
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Friday Quick Updates: The Manly Wade Wellman Award's prospective eligibility list is announced, and the many things I missed in the January newsletter
Posted on 2014-01-03 at 22:6 by montsamu
Friday, January 3, 2014: As usual, as soon as I click "publish" and "send" on the newsletter all manner of books and events and news come flying in or are finally finalized. Finally. Ish.
First, the North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation is proud to announce the prospective eligibility list for the 2014 Manly Wade Wellman Award for North Carolina Science Fiction and Fantasy, adding more than 10 novels to the preliminary list announced in December. Thank you very much to those who wrote in with
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