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The presses are rolling!

Posted on 2010-03-08 at 17:13 by montsamu

Well, it has been quite a learning process. But, finally, the proof corrections are in, re-proofed, agonized over, and, gulp, paid for. But the presses are finally rolling on BULL SPEC #1!

Final content for issue #1 (72 pages, 16 in full color):

SHORT FICTION:

• C. S. Fuqua: "Rise Up" (with cover illustration by Mike Gallagher)
• Peter Wood: "Almost a Good Day to Go Outside"
• Natania Barron: "Doctor Adderson's Lens" (with photo by Tennille Heinonen)

• Michael Jasper: "A Gathering of Doorways"

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BULL SPEC #1 has gone to the printers!

Posted on 2010-02-26 at 17:14 by montsamu

Well, I just uploaded the file bullspec-01-201002261115.pdf to my printers. I don't really know what to expect next as this is the first issue, but, well, it's out there! 72 pages and about a month later than I'd hoped, but I'm incredibly excited to receive that first shipment of a big box of magazines and start delivering them to local bookstores The Regulator Bookshop, Quail Ridge Books & Music, and Internationalist Books & Community Center and mailing out (or for local folks, delivering courier-style

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Sneak Peek: BULL SPEC #1's cover (draft)

Posted on 2010-02-05 at 22:36 by montsamu

Still some tinkering to do in all likelihood, but for the most part I'm going to leave it alone. Interior design and layout is going actually quite nicely this week, though still some important things to decide on and some last bits of art to select and place.

Anyway; here's something fairly close to what should any week now be on a shelf near you, if you're in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, or in your mailbox if you're elsewhere, with cover art by CLOSED SYSTEM's Mike Gallagher to accompany the

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Updates galore.

Posted on 2010-01-28 at 18:46 by montsamu

Wow, somehow it's been two weeks since the last post here, and I wanted to let folks know BULL SPEC is still here, and that there are a few updates on what BULL SPEC has been up to, bullet point style:

1. Spanish narration is (beautifully!) done for our first benefit short, Joe Meno's "The Architecture of the Moon," thanks to Yda Balcazar. Additional huge thanks to Itzel Leaf, Spanish translator, and Matthew Nis Leerberg, who provided editing for the Spanish translation. Andrew Matte finished his first draft of

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Sneak peek: "Closed System" by Mike Gallagher.

Posted on 2010-01-13 at 19:21 by montsamu

"Closed System" is a graphic short story (comic book) which will be serialized in the 2010 quarterly run of BULL SPEC. When artist and writer Mike Gallagher pitched the idea of a "guide to time travel by giant disembodied ape head" I must say I was pretty interested. When he sent me the first sketches I knew I had the artist I wanted, and now that I have the first installment of the story for BULL SPEC #1 I can't wait to show it off. So, the cover for CLOSED SYSTEM:

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BULL SPEC #1 will be available at...

Posted on 2010-01-09 at 3:28 by montsamu

At least three fine local bookstores, and of course online where some pre-orders have indeed started to trickle in. Thanks very much for those, it is deeply appreciated.

First up was The Regulator Bookshop on 9th Street in Durham. They've been my local bookstore for almost 10 years now, and were very enthusiastic and supportive of carrying the magazine. So enthusiastic that we're trying to work out a date for the BULL SPEC #1 launch party there in early February! I'm glad to be able to say (after having a

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We're pleased to announce that BULL SPEC #1 will include a feature on: game designer and author Lee Hammock.

Posted on 2009-12-07 at 2:40 by montsamu

Rounding out our interviews for BULL SPEC #1 will be game designer and author Lee Hammock, currently Lead Game Designer on the RPG/FPS hybrid MMOG Fallen Earth for Cary, North Carolina-based Icarus Studios. We're very much looking forward to sitting down with him and talking about his writing, gaming both digital and tabletop, Fallen Earth, and what's next.

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We're pleased to announce that BULL SPEC #1 will include a feature on D. Harlan Wilson.

Posted on 2009-12-06 at 2:42 by montsamu

While for the most part we're about to enter "stealth mode" as we get ready for the late January first issue, there are a few more things we're just too excited about to keep under wraps. For today, we're very pleased indeed to announce that BULL SPEC #1 will include an expanded feature on award-winning novelist, short story writer, cultural theorist, and screenwriter D. Harlan Wilson, including an interview and reviews of his latest novel (Peckinpah: An Ultraviolent Romance) and his latest nonfiction book

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We're pleased to announce that BULL SPEC #1 will be including some articles, reviews and interviews, including an interview of: Jennifer Bedell & Zachary Boyd of Durham's Sci-Fi Genre Comics & Games.

Posted on 2009-12-03 at 19:25 by montsamu

While some other things are still too much in the pending stage, we're pleased to announce that due to such great response so far, we're going to move to a full e-zine format a little ahead of schedule. To that end, we've started tracking down some articles, reviews, and interviews to include in BULL SPEC #1 in January, and we're even more pleased to announce that our first interview will be of Jennifer Bedell & Zachary Boyd of Durham's Sci-Fi Genre Comics & Games.

Having recently celebrated the 3rd

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We're pleased to announce that BULL SPEC SHORT #1 will be: Terry Bisson's "George."

Posted on 2009-11-17 at 17:41 by montsamu

The summer before George was born, Katie and I lived in a house on a high hill. The hill sloped up gently on three sides, covered with thick grass kept short by the wind; but in the back, behind the house, if fell off sharply, down a high, rocky cliff, to the sea. The house was right at the top, about thirty yards from the edge of the cliff, and all we could see of the ocean from there was its top edge, where it tilted up against the sky. The cliff was so high and the wind from the sea was so noisy that

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