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Coming to Town: Paul Tremblay for A Head Full of Ghosts at Flyleaf Books, interviewed by Richard Dansky

Posted on 2015-07-22 at 14:08 by montsamu

Interview by Richard Dansky:

With A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay has catapulted himself into the front rank of American horror authors. Born in Colorado but currently residing in Boston, Tremblay teaches AP Calculus by day and then unleashes an entirely different set of horrors by night. His previous works include Swallowing A Donkey’s Eye and the short story collection In The Mean Time, both from ChiZine Publishing. Nominated twice for the Bram Stoker Award, he also serves as a juror for the Shirley

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged flyleaf books, paul tremblay, richard dansky

Coming to Town: Nathan Ballingrud for "Noir at the Bar" at 106 Main in Durham

Posted on 2015-06-18 at 14:53 by montsamu

Tonight (Thursday, June 18) at 6:30 pm, Downtown Durham's 106 Main hosts the city's second Noir at the Bar event, with eight authors of dark fiction from across North Carolina holding court over drinks to talk about their work, including Durham's Eryk Pruitt (Dirtbags, Hashtag) and Chapel Hill's Jeremy Hawkins (The Last Days of Video), as well as Asheville's Nathan Ballingrud who took the time for an email interview ahead of tonight's event. Ballingrud is the author of the award-winning 2013 collection Nort

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Coming to Town: John L. Deboer, Erica Lucke Dean, and Stephen Kozeniewski for Red Adept Publishing’s annual book signing event at Event Horizon Games, interviewed by Karissa Laurel

Posted on 2015-06-11 at 13:42 by montsamu

On Saturday, June 13, Event Horizon Games welcomes authors, John L Deboer, Erica Lucke Dean, Stephen Kozeniewski, Kelly Stone Gamble, Mary Fan, Claire Ashby, and Karissa Laurel for Red Adept Publishing’s annual book signing event.  John is the author of Skeleton Run, a mystery thriller. Stephen will be signing his horror mystery, Braineater Jones, and Erica’s newest release is Ashes of Life, a women’s fiction novel. Here, Karissa Laurel interviews John, Erica, and Stephen about their books, writing, North

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged Erica Lucke Dean, Event Horizon Games, John L. Deboer, Karissa Laurel, Red Adept Publishing

Coming to Town: Darin Kennedy for The Mussorgsky Riddle, at Flyleaf Books this Sunday

Posted on 2015-06-05 at 20:10 by montsamu

As I wrote in the intro for his The Hardest Part essay: "Charlotte “doctor by day, novelist by night” Darin Kennedy‘s debut novel, The Mussorgsky Riddle, is squarely right up my alley. “The Great Gate of Kiev” (part of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition) is one of my favorite pieces of Russian symphony, and Kennedy turns the mythopoeity up to “11” combining music, paranormal mystery, and classical mythology in a heady, panpsychic mix. All set in Charlotte — and the infinite mindscapes therein." In that

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged darin kennedy, flyleaf books

Coming to Town: Marie Brennan for Voyage of the Basilisk, at Quail Ridge Books and Flyleaf Books, with Mary Robinette Kowal

Posted on 2015-05-11 at 14:33 by montsamu

Fantasy author Marie Brennan is on tour for Voyage of the Basilisk, the third novel in her Memoirs of Lady Trent series which began with the World Fantasy Award nominated A Natural History of Dragons. Once again, she's touring with fellow fantasy novelist Mary Robinette Kowal, and this time, as Kowal and I hoped at about this time last year in Kowal's now-yearly return to her Raleigh hometown, Brennan will be joining Kowal for not one but three reading in North Carolina next week: Monday (May 18th) at

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged flyleaf books, lady trent, malaprops bookstore, marie brennan, mary robinette kowal, quail ridge books

Coming to Town: Lynne Hansen and Jeff Strand for The Nevermore Film Festival, interviewed by Richard Dansky

Posted on 2015-02-18 at 15:26 by montsamu

By Richard Dansky:

Lynne Hansen and Jeff Strand are one of horror fiction’s power couples. A perennial host of the Bram Stoker Awards, Jeff blends humor and horror in acclaimed novels like Pressure and his short story collection, Dead Clown Barbecue. Lynne’s prolific in YA horror (The Return, The Change) as well as working in film (He’s Not Looking So Great, Chomp). And there is absolutely no truth to the rumor that in their last trip to North Carolina, Jeff failed to finish his side of hush puppies at a

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged carolina theatre of durham, jeff strand, lynne hansen, nevermore film festival, richard dansky

Coming to Town: Christopher J Garcia for illogiCon, interviewed by M. David Blake

Posted on 2015-01-08 at 14:50 by montsamu

Introduction and interview by M. David Blake:

Christopher J Garcia, who bears the dubious distinction of having delivered the only Hugo Award acceptance to ever subsequently receive its own nomination for a Hugo Award in a different category, is the fan guest of honor at this weekend’s illogiCon at the Embassy Suites RDU. His schedule includes speculation upon the future, spacefaring worth of contemporary, earthbound culture; steampunk, and the "Weird West"; Thunderbirds, Bone-Sharps, and their kin (think

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged christopher j garcia, illogicon, m. david blake

Coming to Town: Jacqueline Carey for illogiCon, interviewed by Sharon Stogner

Posted on 2015-01-05 at 18:18 by montsamu

NY Times bestselling author Jacqueline Carey is the author of 16 novels, from her 2001 epic fantasy debut Kushiel's Dart (in the Top 10 of Tor.com's Best of the Decade poll) to her current urban fantasy series, Agent of Hel, most recently Poison Fruit. She's the author guest of honor at this weekend's illogiCon at the Embassy Suites RDU, and along with panels on "Contemporary Culture Influences on Dystopian Futures", "Diversity and Representation in Genre Fiction", "Religion and Mythology in Science Fiction

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged illogicon, jacqueline carey, sharon stogner

Coming to Town: Fred Chappell for "Familiars", interviewed by Warren Rochelle

Posted on 2014-12-08 at 14:42 by montsamu

This Wednesday at Quail Ridge Books marks the first of three Triangle-area readings for North Carolina's own Fred Chappell. While I personally know his work best for his short speculative fiction (particularly his "shadow" stories in F&SF) he has enchanted readers of every mode, from Southern novels, to the horrors of Dagon, poetry to prose. It is for his poems that he returns this year, for a new chapbook Familiars: Poems from Louisiana State University Press, for readings at the aforementioned Quail Ridge

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged flyleaf books, fred chappell, quail ridge books, the regulator bookshop, warren rochelle

Coming to Town: Julia Elliott for The Wilds at The Regulator Bookshop, interviewed by Bill Verner

Posted on 2014-12-02 at 15:12 by montsamu

Interview by Bill Verner:

On Friday, December 5^th at 7:00, at the Regulator Bookshop in Durham, Pushcart Prize winning writer Julia Elliott will read from her debut collection The Wilds. The Wilds (Tin House Books) is a collection of genre-bending stories that, in the words of the starred Publishers Weekly review, “is a brilliant combination of emotion and grime, wit and horror.” Across the breadth of the 11 collected pieces, Julia applies her uniquely odd Southern Gothic voice to stories that range from

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged bill verner, julia elliott, the regulator bookshop, the wilds