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Last Day for both Henry Vogel's Kindle Scout campaign and Paul Celmer's "IGAAKS" Kickstarter

Posted on 2016-03-20 at 14:39 by montsamu

It's the last day to nominate Raleigh author Henry Vogel's The Counterfeit Captain in the "Kindle Scout" program, which awards a book deal to titles based on user voting. So! Help Henry out, all it takes is a few seconds, and if his book does end up winning, you get a free copy. "Losing consciousness as her starfighter bleeds air, Captain Nancy Martin expects a lonely death. Instead, she awakens in a cavernous, empty docking bay. When she is mistaken for the vast ship's mythical Captain, Nancy finds herself

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Paul Kincaid’s From the Other Side, February 2016: The Kitchies, Mieville's This Census Taker, Pinborough's 13 Minutes, and more

Posted on 2016-03-08 at 14:25 by montsamu

[Editor’s Note: From the Other Side is Paul Kincaid’s monthly column on books and news from the other side of the Atlantic.]

From the Other Side, February 2016 By Paul Kincaid

I’m beginning to worry about the Kitschies. Last year, as I reported, the award seemed to go for a secret ceremony: most people didn’t even know about it until the day itself. This year, they have at least announced the date and venue of the award at the same time that they announced the shortlists, but they have allowed just two

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2016 Manly Wade Wellman Award cover gallery

Posted on 2016-03-07 at 07:53 by montsamu

As I'm gearing up to podcast descriptions of all of these books for Carolina Book Beat in the morning, and as nominations have been open a while, here's a cover gallery of this year's Manly Wade Wellman Award  final eligibility list of 115 titles, alpha by author:

A-D

F-K

L-P

R-W

I included Goodreads links for every title for which I could find a listing. Nominations will remain open until

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Friday Quick Updates: book deals, new books and audiobooks, and new and upcoming events including a 5-author YA panel on Monday!

Posted on 2016-02-20 at 04:55 by montsamu

Friday, February 19, 2016: Well, it's been a couple of weeks since the newsletter went out, yet somehow I don't have a huge pile of corrections and missed items to pass along. I do have some "new new" things, and I'll start with a pair of fantastic pieces of news:

• NC State graduate and Baen Books editorial assistant Christopher Ruochhio Tweeted his Publisher's Marketplace announcement of a "very nice" 4-book deal, his first, with Betsy Wollheim of DAW Books, for a new science fiction series to begin with 

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February Newsletter: Lawrence M. Schoen, Nevermore Film Festival, Playthrough Gaming Convention, Manly Wade Wellman Award nominations, new books, news, and more

Posted on 2016-02-05 at 20:56 by montsamu

Vol 6 No 2. Friday, February 5, 2016: North Carolina, Lawrence M. Schoen is in you! After reading Wednesday night at Charlotte's Park Road Books, Schoen returned to the Triangle for readings last night (Flyleaf Books) and tonight Quail Ridge Books) from his moving and imaginative new science fiction novel Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard. As usual that's the tip of the iceberg as to what's going on this month, and there's plenty, plenty of news and new books to pass along as well. First, though, the

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Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, January 2016: Frances Hardinge, Tricia Sullivan, Michael Cobley, Gavin Smith, and Stephen Palmer

Posted on 2016-02-02 at 15:26 by montsamu

[Editor’s Note: From the Other Side is Paul Kincaid’s monthly column on books and news from the other side of the Atlantic.]

From the Other Side, January 2016 By Paul Kincaid

Well that was a surprise. Not a surprise that Frances Hardinge won the Costa Book of the Year; everyone agrees that The Lie Tree was a very worthy winner. But a surprise because, well, this is the Costa Book Awards, one of our most respected literary prizes, if one of the more eccentric. Let me explain: there are five awards

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The Hardest Part: Lawrence M. Schoen on Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard

Posted on 2016-01-22 at 18:06 by montsamu

Author Lawrence M. Schoen is a busy man. When he's not holding court as one of the world's foremost experts on Klingon, or adding new Conroyverse stories featuring everyone's favorite oxygen-producing buffalito (think: miniature genetically-engineered buffalo the size of small cats which eat anything and fart oxygen, quite useful in space, eh?), or attending about a dozen conventions per year at which he is a panelist on Star Trek, writing, hypnosis, neuroscience, and more -- oh, did I mention he was a

Posted in The Hardest Part | Tagged flyleaf books, lawrence m schoen, quail ridge books

Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, December 2015: Adam Roberts, Anne Charnock, H.G. Wells and Stephen Baxter, and the year in British sf

Posted on 2016-01-13 at 15:56 by montsamu

From the Other Side, December 2015 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.]

Good news, after such a long wait, the sf event we’ve all been anticipating has finally arrived. For those who have been suffering withdrawal symptoms, the dying weeks of the year have brought relief. For those who feel that it is against the laws of nature that the last twelve months should have seen only two books from Adam

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January newsletter: Michael Livingston, Okla Elliott and Raul Clement, illogiCon, Rubber Peacock, StellarCon, and (in February) Lawrence M. Schoen

Posted on 2016-01-05 at 06:39 by montsamu

Vol 6 No 1. Tuesday, January 5, 2016: Happy New Year! With readings tonight and tomorrow and illogiCon this weekend, 2016 is getting off to a fast start, so I'll get right to the upcoming events:

• January 5 (Tuesday) 7 pm -- Flyleaf Books hosts Michael Livingston for his debut historical fantasy novel The Shards of Heaven, set in the aftermath of the assassination of Julius Caesar.
• January 6 (Wednesday) 7 pm -- Raleigh's So & So Books hosts Okla Elliott and Raul Clement, co-authors of The Doors You

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Coming to Town: Okla Elliott and Raul Clement for The Doors You Mark Are Your Own, at Atomic Empire and So & So Books

Posted on 2015-12-21 at 17:19 by montsamu

When UNC-Greensboro graduates Okla Elliott and Raul Clement came back through North Carolina this spring in support of the publication of their debut novel The Doors You Mark Are Your Own (Dark House Press, April 2015) I was caught completely unawares -- I have got to keep a better eye on The Regulator's newsletter! Not so this time, as I've got both their reading tomorrow (Tuesday, December 22, at Durham's Atomic Empire) and early next year (Wednesday, January 6, at Raleigh's So & So Books) circled on my

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