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BULL SPEC is now accepting subscriptions.

Posted on 2010-04-30 at 1:3 by montsamu

I'm finally at a point where I feel comfortable that I will be continuing the print magazine at the very least long enough to honor a 4-issue (a year, as BULL SPEC is quarterly) subscription. I didn't want to open the doors taking subscriptions, but as Issue #2 is well underway, stories, reviews, and interviews starting to fill out Issue #3, and even a couple things already booked for Issue #4, I went ahead and flipped the switch. In keeping with the "pay what you like" theme for everything I do

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BULL SPEC #1 PDF available under a Creative Commons license at "pay what you want." Yes, even $0.

Posted on 2010-04-09 at 2:1 by montsamu

It's the way I wanted to do things from the beginning, and even though it is the result of an awful lot of work (and not a tiny amount of money) I'm putting my money where my mouth is when it comes to a lot of things, the two that come to mind right now are:

  1. Gift Economy: Don't want to pay, don't pay. Want to support the authors, artists, and editor behind Bull Spec? I hope I made it easy enough.
  2. Creative Commons: The PDF file is offered under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3

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BULL SPEC is available at two new places.

Posted on 2010-04-08 at 17:24 by montsamu

The first is at the Chapel Hill location of Ultimate Comics, where I finally met owner Alan Gill and learned about as much as I could have hoped about the local comics scene. (For example, did you know that Cowboy Ninja Viking features an Ultimate Comics cameo? I didn't.)

The second is at the Durham County Library's Main Branch. Don't look for it in the periodicals section, instead head upstairs to the North Carolina Collection and look for the periodicals section. As a kid who grew up loving books and my

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A truly "diabolical" contest.

Posted on 2010-04-08 at 11:0 by montsamu

The writing blog Diabolical Plots is having a little contest to celebrate its hit counter rolling into five digits, and what better way to celebrate fun base-10-centric milestones than with a giveaway? So I sent David Steffen an extra copy of Bull Spec #1 to give away.

But there's a catch. Both Diabolical Plots and Bull Spec like to do interviews, and are asking you to give an idea of somebody in speculative fiction to interview. For the full details check out the Diabolical Plots post on the contest, and

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More stores, nearer you. And starting to spill the beans on BULL SPEC #2 content. And other random assortments.

Posted on 2010-04-03 at 3:48 by montsamu

First, some store updates. BULL SPEC #1 found a home in two more area stores today, bringing the total to 10. Thanks to All Fun & Games in Apex and the wonderful, amazing, beautiful shrine to books that is Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill. That place... well, I hadn't been there yet and they just jumped in line for where I'd like to do an event.

More store updates? Let's. Talks have been going very well with some very supportive folks: managers of the Raleigh-Durham area Barnes & Noble stores. Fingers crossed

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Mail troubles.

Posted on 2010-03-30 at 15:30 by montsamu

Due to ongoing issues receiving e-mail directed @bullspec.com addresses (including missed submissions without any failure message to the recipient!), I've changed to a new mail host. There will likely be some transition period while different DNS servers update, and I apologize to folks who have been impacted by this. Hopefully it will be sorted out for the better as soon as possible.

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Some photos!

Posted on 2010-03-19 at 16:3 by montsamu

Over a hastily constructed and eaten sandwich for lunch, some photos posted onto the Bull Spec Facebook photo page:

Going from proofing the first issue:


To receiving the first shipment:




To finding it in the store:


I didn't take a single photo when delivering copies to stores or the large stack of outgoing mail... next time! And all current orders have either been mailed or delivered. Somebody fix that for me, eh?

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Available at a store near you: and getting nearer!

Posted on 2010-03-17 at 23:43 by montsamu

By Monday, Durham (The Regulator Bookshop, Sci-Fi Genre Comics & Games) and Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill Comics, Internationalist Books) had their first stack of copies in stock. Tuesday saw Raleigh get some BULL SPEC #1 love at Quail Ridge Books & Music.

If that wasn't close enough for your tastes, today, two more stores joined the BULL SPEC fold! Foundation's Edge on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh and Storytellers Book Store in Wake Forest both took their first shipment as well.

All pre-orders have been mailed

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Shipping. Blurbage. Submissions status. Or: "It's compressive, intelligent, and enlightening." And open!

Posted on 2010-03-15 at 16:35 by montsamu

Well, I've printed a holiday greeting cards list number of shipping labels... but no UPS truck in sight. So a quick update on two topics.

Blurbage! From Tim Deal of Shroud Publishing, on my interview of D. Harlan Wilson:

"It's compressive, intelligent, and enlightening."
 That's fun stuff right there. So, on to point number two:

Submissions status! I've been unofficially open since early February, and might as well just call it official. While the guidelines are a touch out of date (now that I'm printing

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BULL SPEC #1 Launch Party: Tuesday 23 March at 7 PM at The Regulator Bookshop

Posted on 2010-03-11 at 18:15 by montsamu

You are (well, everybody is!) cordially/enthusiastically invited to the BULL SPEC #1 launch party on Tuesday the 23rd of March at 7 PM! The host will be Durham's The Regulator Bookshop on 9th Street. (720 Ninth Street to be exact.) So come in, come downstairs, meet and greet some of the authors and other folks involved with not just the first issue but the rest of Bull Spec -- translators, narrators, editors, helpers, etc.

No cost to attend (of course! that would be weird...) though, also of course, there

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