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November newsletter: NC Comicon Bull City, Leigh Statham, Michele Tracy Berger and Nicole Givens Kurtz, Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower: The Opera, and more

Posted on 2017-11-10 at 21:06 by montsamu

Vol 7 No 7. Friday, November 10, 2017: Well, this one's coming a bit later in the month than I'd like, but what else is new, eh? Hopefully not too many of you missed the Zine Machine Printed Matter Festival or the Fall Steampunk Picnic last weekend?

Anyway, last month seemed to really fly by, and there was a fantastic event towards the end of the month as Arcana Durham hosted Books & Brews with a big roster of Falstaff Books authors (John Hartness, Misty Massey, Natania Barron, Michael Williams, on and on!

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September newsletter: Scott Reintgen, Rebecca Gomez Farrell, Mur Lafferty, James Maxey, Natania Barron, Annalee Newitz, and more

Posted on 2017-09-13 at 05:59 by montsamu

Vol 7 No 6. Tuesday, September 12, 2017:

Fall is nearly here, and it's bringing an absolute flurry of readings, from Scott Reintgen's book launch events for Nyxia this week through Marissa Meyer's return to the Triangle in November, there are more book events in as short a time as I can remember having on the calendar in a few years!

Let's start with some of those readings coming up over the next couple of weeks:

• September 13 (Wednesday) 7 pm -- Quail Ridge Books hosts Scott Reintgen for his

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July Newsletter: Jay Posey, ConGregate/DeepSouthCon and SuperCon, Scott Reintgen, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, and more

Posted on 2017-07-08 at 17:44 by montsamu

Vol 7 No 5. Saturday, July 8, 2017: There are some fantastic new events this month -- starting this afternoon! -- and two big centerpiece conventions to preview, as well as run down some of the new books from North Carolina authors this summer and spill the beans about a new writer's group and a new horror book club. Let's get to those new events first:

July 8 (Saturday) 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm -- The Streets at Southpoint Barnes & Noble hosts Jay Posey for a signing of Sungrazer, the second book in his

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June Newsletter: John Claude Bemis, Sina Grace, The Writers Coffeehouse, Steampunk MidAtlantic, Wellman Award finalists, and more

Posted on 2017-06-10 at 10:36 by montsamu

Vol 7 No 4. Saturday, June 10, 2017: New events, new books, and awards news await in this month's newsletter. Without further preamble, here's this month's new events highlights:

Today in Hillsborough, John Claude Bemis hosts the latest in his fantastic series of launch parties -- er, I mean, celebrates the release of the latest of his fantastic books for young readers! No, seriously, if you haven't been to one of John's book launch parties at the Eno Farmer's Market Pavilion, expect live music

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Happy Release Day: Natania Barron, A.J. Hartley, and John Claude Bemis

Posted on 2017-06-06 at 18:08 by montsamu

Three -- count 'em! -- three North Carolina authors have new books out today:

Frost and Filigree by Natania Barron is a novella in the new The Shadow Council Case Files novella series from Falstaff Books, a spin-off shared world of stand alone novellas set in John Hartness' Quincy Harker Demon Hunter series. "They have worked behind the scenes of society for centuries, protecting humans from threats beyond their understanding. They are The Shadow Council, and these Archives are the stories of their

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May newsletter: Cory Doctorow, FCBD, The Writers Coffeehouse, Ursula Vernon, Renée Ahdieh, GeekCraft Expo, Moogfest, and more

Posted on 2017-05-04 at 20:55 by montsamu

Vol 7 No 3. Thursday, May 4, 2017: This month sees readings with Cory Doctorow, Ursula Vernon,  Renée Ahdieh, and Daniel Wallace, along with Free Comic Book Day this weekend, a new monthly writers networking group, and the international music/art/technology festival/conference Moogfest.

But before I turn to the events, I want to urge one last round of participation in this year's Manly Wade Wellman Award nominations. Voting is open until Monday, May 22, and this will set the lineup of finalists to be

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Review: Saiensu Fikushon 2016 (Haikasoru)

Posted on 2017-03-27 at 18:08 by montsamu

Saiensu Fikushon 2016 (Haikasoru, 2016) is a sushi sampler sized feast of bizarre, compelling, and legitimately technophobia-inducing speculative fiction from Japan, launching a new annual (we can hope!) mini-anthology series that hearkens back (with its conception and cover design, at least) to classic Japanese manga anthologies. Here's the publisher description:

Three new stories from three of the best science fiction writers in Japan:

"Overdrive" by Toe EnJoe — How fast is the speed of thought?

"Sea

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March newsletter: Mur Lafferty, Renee Ahdieh, Samantha Shannon, John Scalzi, Roshani Chokshi, Oak City Comicon, more events, awards news, writing camps, and more

Posted on 2017-03-07 at 19:06 by montsamu

Vol 7 No 2. Monday, March 6, 2017: Thankfully February was a short month again this year, so I hope you'll forgive me for not having a newsletter out last month. Unfortunately I must ask your further indulgence for still not including a full "news and notes" or even "new books and audiobooks" section in this newsletter, even as (especially) publication notes begin to pile up to the ceiling! But enough of my groveling, let's jump right in and talk about some upcoming events:

The big event this week is

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Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, December 2016: Ken MacLeod, Jonathan Oliver, NewCon Press, Infinity Plus, and a farewell for now

Posted on 2017-03-04 at 19:35 by montsamu

From the Other Side, December 2016 By Paul Kincaid

[Editor’s Note: From the Other Side is Paul Kincaid’s monthly column on books and news from the other side of the Atlantic. For this installment, again my apologies to all for the extreme lateness of publication. The fault is, again, entirely mine.]

And another year is dead and gone. Let’s face it, 2016 didn’t exactly do any of us any favours, so I suspect we’re all pretty pleased to see the back of it. Except, of course, that 2017 doesn’t particularly

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January newsletter: illogiCon welcomes Daniel Jose Older, Jeremy Whitley signs "Wasp", the 2016-17 Manly Wade Wellman Award season gets underway, and more

Posted on 2017-01-13 at 18:40 by montsamu

Vol 7 No 1. Friday, January 13, 2017: Welcome, already, to illogiCon weekend, which kicks off its 6th annual convention with today's opening ceremonies at 3 pm and continues all weekend at the Embassy Suites RDU with guests of honor Daniel José Older (Half-Resurrection Blues, pictured below, left) and Dave Ellis, along with program participants Natania Barron, Samantha Bryant, Richard Butner, Tony Daniel, Richard Dansky, Nicole Givens Kurtz, J.L. Hilton, Mur Lafferty, Josh Leone, Ian Malone, Gail Z. Martin,

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