Posts tagged: mur lafferty
Coming to Town: Adam Christopher for Made to Kill at Flyleaf Books, interviewed by Mur Lafferty
Posted on 2015-11-10 at 15:27 by montsamu
New Zealand-born British novelist Adam Christopher (Empire State, The Burning Dark, Seven Wonders, and Hang Wire) is making a rare US appearance at Chapel Hill's Flyleaf Books this Saturday [Facebook] to read from his forthcoming novel Made to Kill, which begins his new “L.A. Trilogy” from Tor Books: “Set in Hollywood 1965, Made to Kill is very much a noir mystery, except that the detective is a robot (with a heart of gold) and his Gal Friday is a supercomputer with a Lucille Bluth sensibility. The novel
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Coming to Town: Scott Westerfeld for Afterworlds at Quail Ridge Books, interviewed by Mur Lafferty
Posted on 2014-09-23 at 14:36 by montsamu
Scott Westerfeld came to prominence a decade ago with his award-winning and best-selling dystopian young adult series "Uglies", then set his sights on a middle grade alternate history of Steampunk "Clankers" and gene-splicing "Darwinists" for his "Leviathan" series, a fantastically-illustrated (and narrated, by Alan Cumming) adventure-romp through WW1-era Europe by diesel-powered mech walkers, modified whale airships, and (perhaps) even stranger methods. It's been 3 years since Goliath concluded that series
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Coming to Town: Jeff VanderMeer at Quail Ridge Books for Authority, interviewed by Mur Lafferty
Posted on 2014-07-08 at 19:12 by montsamu
Tallahassee author Jeff VanderMeer has been no stranger to the Carolinas, both through his work teaching at the SharedWorlds teen writing summer camp at Wofford College and quite a few events over the years. We're thrilled to be welcoming him back again this year as part of his Southern Reach Summer Tour which includes 4 stops in the Carolinas in just over a week, starting and ending with Wednesday events (July 9th and 16th) at Hub City in Spartanburg, SC around readings on Thursday (July 10th) at Raleigh’s
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The Hardest Part: Mur Lafferty on Ghost Train to New Orleans
Posted on 2014-03-19 at 19:49 by montsamu
Durham author Mur Lafferty already had a handful and a half novels out in the world when, last year, she both had her "debut" novel published by Orbit, The Shambling Guide to New York City, and she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the Hugo Awards at the World Science Fiction Convention. Not a bad year, eh? Still, after all the books and the stories, she had to go back to the drawing board -- again and again -- to get a particular plot point right for book 2 in her Shambling Guides
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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Some Recent Good Urban Fantasy Reads: The Cormorant, Black Arts and Ghost Train to New Orleans
Posted on 2014-03-16 at 3:31 by angelablackwell
The Cormorant by Chuck Wendig (Angry Robot, January 2014)
This urban fantasy/hard-boiled thriller stars Miriam Black, a woman with the paranormal talent of precisely predicting the date, time, and circumstances of anyone's death. She does some illegal things to survive, usually conning or stealing from the unfortunate who wants to know about his or her demise.
Miriam and the people she encounters all get gleefully skewered, folded, spindled, stapled, and mutilated by Wendig; there is kidnapping, torture
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Friday Quick Updates: Mur Lafferty tomorrow, Deborah Johnson next week, a Book Club Moveable Feast this weekend, Jeremy L.C. Jones writes about Manly Wade Wellman, and more
Posted on 2014-02-07 at 16:7 by montsamu
Friday, February 7, 2014: Three "NEW-NEW" events this weekend, added to the calendar since sending the February newsletter barely a week ago, including Mur Lafferty's Durham County Library (Southwest Regional Library) event on Saturday and a "Bookmarks Book Club Moveable Feast" event on Sunday in Winston-Salem, for which very, very limited tickets remain. Several more new events were added further down the line, including the 15th Nevermore Film Festival at The Carolina Theatre of Durham on Feb 21-23 and a
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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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2013 local and regional author preview
Posted on 2013-01-03 at 2:24 by montsamu
As we turn the page on 2012, and all of its local and regional books, it's time to take a look at 2013 in terms of local and regional authors. While there are always surprises -- particularly later in the year -- here's what I know about so far. Meanwhile, I'm going back on Carolina Book Beat on Monday, January 7th at 10 AM to talk about this list and whatever else comes up. So! On to 2013:
Witchbreaker (Dragon Apocalypse #3) by James Maxey (Solaris, Dec 25) -- "Five hundred years ago, the famed
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Tonight! "Winter Tales" in Hillsborough!
Posted on 2012-12-13 at 16:31 by montsamu
This evening (Thursday, Dec 13) at 6 pm the Orange County Main Library in downtown Hillsborough will host the storytelling event of the winter season, "Winter Tales" [Facebook], featuring original stories, poetry, and songs composed for the event by five local authors. (Along with cookies and hot cider!)
"Join authors Mur Lafferty, Alex Granados, Gray Rinehart, Becca Gomez Farrell and James Maxey for an celebration of the holiday season with original stories, poetry, and song."
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