Friday Quick Updates

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Friday Quick Updates: Elizabeth Langston, Chris Giarrusso, Atomic Comedy, Powerful Women in YA Lit, Mary Roach, and more

Posted on 2014-04-12 at 12:57 by montsamu

Saturday, April 12, 2014: Yeah, it's Saturday, but I didn't get these out yesterday and there's a big weekend ahead. Er. Upon us.

First up, covering Saturday means 3 events to tell you about:

10:30 am to 4 pm -- Ultimate Comics hosts G-Man & Mini-Marvel Creator Chris Giarrusso "for a signing of epic proportions! There will be FREE food, drinks, LIVE ART, and plenty of good times! This will be be a fun, all-ages event, so bring the whole family and don't forget to ask for a FREE SKETCH! If the weather is

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Monday Musings: N.K. Jemisin in Statesville this weekend, and Lev Grossman and Junot Diaz kick of the NC Literary Festival next week!

Posted on 2014-03-24 at 19:52 by montsamu

Monday, March 24, 2014: Via regular contributors The Exploding Spaceship comes news that Statesville, NC's Mitchell Community College will host award-winning author N.K. Jemisin this weekend (Friday March 28 and Saturday March 29) as part of the 2014 Doris Betts Spring Writers Festival. There are author readings, (free!) writing workshops, and more. If you're in the Piedmont area, check it out!

Meanwhile, here in the Triangle we're getting very ready and very excited about next week's North Carolina

Posted in Friday Quick Updates | Tagged flyer, junot diaz, lev grossman, nc lit fest, nk jemisin

Friday Quick Updates: Baen audio drama casting; H.G. Wells panel rescheduled; NC Lit Fest schedule; and upcoming events including Jenna Black and Kristen Simmons

Posted on 2014-03-14 at 17:48 by montsamu

Friday, March 14, 2014: Happy Friday everyone! There are some fun activities for teens and kids this weekend (a Divergent fan party on Saturday, Richard Peck's The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail on Sunday), ahead of a three-author YA event at Flyleaf Books on Monday with Kristen Simmons, Mindee Arnett, and Durham's Jenna Black, whose latest novel Resistance was just published Tuesday by Tor Teen, a follow-on to last year's Replica.

Also this weekend (Saturday March 15 and Monday March 17), Wake

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Friday Quick Updates: Allen Wold's new collection, H.G. Wells panel, Mur Lafferty, NC Literary Festival adds Lev Grossman and Nathan Ballingrud, and (tons) more

Posted on 2014-02-28 at 21:31 by montsamu

Friday, February 28, 2014: Wow. There's a lot to tell you guys about since my last news roundup 11 days ago. So much I hardly know where to begin! Let's start with what's new at bullspec.com:

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Friday Quick Updates, Monday edition: Alice Hoffman, Megan Shepherd and The Lovestruck Tour, and the Nevermore Film Festival

Posted on 2014-02-17 at 15:51 by montsamu

Monday, February 17, 2014: Tonight sees the first of two events with magical realist Alice Hoffman in the Triangle, ahead of Megan Shepherd, Megan Miranda, and the rest of "The Lovestruck Tour" later this week. Hoffman's new book is The Museum of Extraordinary Things, set in the New York City of the early 1900s, and after launching the book at the Savannah Book Festival this past weekend she's at Raleigh's Quail Ridge Books tonight at 7:30 pm, ahead of a second event in the area at McIntyre's Books in

Posted in Friday Quick Updates | Tagged alice hoffman, flyleaf books, karen russell, malaprops bookstore, megan miranda, megan shepherd, mysticon, nevermore, quail ridge books

Friday Quick Updates: Mur Lafferty tomorrow, Deborah Johnson next week, a Book Club Moveable Feast this weekend, Jeremy L.C. Jones writes about Manly Wade Wellman, and more

Posted on 2014-02-07 at 16:07 by montsamu

Friday, February 7, 2014: Three "NEW-NEW" events this weekend, added to the calendar since sending the February newsletter barely a week ago, including Mur Lafferty's Durham County Library (Southwest Regional Library) event on Saturday and a "Bookmarks Book Club Moveable Feast" event on Sunday in Winston-Salem, for which very, very limited tickets remain. Several more new events were added further down the line, including the 15th Nevermore Film Festival at The Carolina Theatre of Durham on Feb 21-23 and a

Posted in Friday Quick Updates | Tagged deborah johnson, jeremy lc jones, mur lafferty

Friday Quick Updates: illogiCon is here!

Posted on 2014-01-10 at 15:51 by montsamu

Friday, January 10, 2014: I'm likely the last to post my own illogiCon panel schedule, so let me get that out of the way first:

FRIDAY 3 PM -- The Things About Thieves -- SMITH
FRIDAY 4 PM -- The Fortunes of Small Press -- REYNOLDS [moderator]
SATURDAY 11 AM -- A Million Nations -- REYNOLDS
SATURDAY 12 PM -- Social Scientists' Science Fiction -- SMITH
SATURDAY 4 PM -- Best F&SF Novels of 2013 -- SMITH

Second, hey, illogiCon starts today! In a few hours! I'm very pleased to have been able to have a Read more...

Posted in Friday Quick Updates | Tagged illogicon

Friday Quick Updates: The Manly Wade Wellman Award's prospective eligibility list is announced, and the many things I missed in the January newsletter

Posted on 2014-01-03 at 22:06 by montsamu

Friday, January 3, 2014: As usual, as soon as I click "publish" and "send" on the newsletter all manner of books and events and news come flying in or are finally finalized. Finally. Ish.

First, the North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation is proud to announce the prospective eligibility list for the 2014 Manly Wade Wellman Award for North Carolina Science Fiction and Fantasy, adding more than 10 novels to the preliminary list announced in December. Thank you very much to those who wrote in with

Posted in Friday Quick Updates | Tagged manly wade wellman award, monica byrne, mur lafferty, ncsff

(Early) Friday Quick Updates: The Manly Wade Wellman Award; some writing market and other links; and a special last-minute local author holiday bookstore

Posted on 2013-12-19 at 15:35 by montsamu

Thursday, December 19, 2013: The "Friday" quick updates are coming a day early today, ahead of a segment on 2013 in North Carolina science fiction and fantasy on WUNC's The State of Things in the noon hour today. Tune in live on the radio or Internet, or catch the podcast or re-broadcast this evening!

First, the really big news. A couple of years in the making, I'm very happy (and quite a bit nervous and scared and hopeful) to share an announcement from the (also new) North Carolina Speculative Fiction

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Friday Quick Updates: Local Black Friday and Small Business Saturday alternatives; another Carolina Book Beat focus on local sf on Monday; and the latest on the regional author holiday book expo next Saturday!

Posted on 2013-11-29 at 14:10 by montsamu

Friday November 29, 2013: While I'm probably somewhere in between the sentiment offered by Shimmer and the most commercial of line-up offerings at the big box stores, I did want to send out a roundup of what's going on this weekend, along with some other news.

FRIDAY

First, though, that Shimmer offer, a free download (PDF, epub, and/or mobi) of Shimmer Issue 17, with Bull Spec "alums" Katherine Sparrow, Lavie Tidhar, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and local writers Jordan Taylor (I first read about her story

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