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Friday Quick Updates: MACE, Chapel Hill Comics hosts Ed Piskor, and 3 days remain to kickstart Purgatory Pub

Posted on 2013-11-15 at 21:22 by montsamu

Friday, November 15, 2013: All recovered from NC Comicon last weekend? While in the Triangle the sole event this weekend is the Ed Piskor (Hip Hop Family Tree) Chapel Hill Comics signing on Saturday, for folks further West, Steve Long is among those heading to MACE, "The Carolinas' Best Gaming Con", in Charlotte this weekend, which boasts Paizo Publishing's Jason Bulmahn along with a trio from Pinnacle Entertainment Group as its guests of honor, and also involves Davey Beauchamp, so there is a high

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Friday Quick Updates, Monday edition: James Dashner, Chris Hardwick, NC Comicon, and Gabriel Dunston's Kickstarter for Purgatory Pub

Posted on 2013-11-04 at 20:14 by montsamu

Monday, November 4, 2013: I'm late this month with the newsletter to be sure, and have at least one more thing to put the finishing touches on before I can click "send" -- that being the annual holiday gift guide to the year in NC speculative fiction. But until then, some quick updates to get to:

• As today was the first Monday of the month, I was on Carolina Book Beat again for the monthly focus on NC speculative fiction, this time with guests Diana Bastine and Debra Killeen. If you missed it live, look

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Friday Quick Updates: News and links; a one-day reschedule for Wilton Barnhardt at Flyleaf; local sf author panels; and William Shakespeare's Land of the Dead

Posted on 2013-10-11 at 16:12 by montsamu

Friday, October 11, 2013: The "Quick Updates" come fast and furious indeed this week, so here we go:

• The Wilton Barnhardt reading and signing at Flyleaf Books which was originally set for tonight (Friday) has just been rescheduled to tomorrow (Saturday) -- take note! The old date was on the email newsletter and a few stacks of flyers that are out and about. If you show up tonight, there will be no whiskey tastings, no matter how much you ask. Come back tomorrow!
• Teen writers (and their parents and

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Friday Quick Updates: Robin Sloan tonight, Maile Meloy on Tuesday, Steven Brust on Wednesday, The Escapist Expo next weekend, and more

Posted on 2013-09-27 at 18:10 by montsamu

Friday, September 27, 2013: Tonight, Chapel Hill's Flyleaf Books welcomes Robin Sloan, the bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. The novel started as a 6,000 word self-published short story of dataviz, cryptography, Google, and books. 3 years later, grown tenfold and then some, it would be published to wide acclaim by Farrar, Straus & Giroux before spending 6 weeks on the NY Times bestseller list. Now the book is out in paperback, along with a new prequel short story, Ajax Penumbra 1969, a

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Friday Quick Updates: Readings from Daniel Wallace, Allan Gurganus, and Robin Sloan, and plenty of news

Posted on 2013-09-20 at 18:15 by montsamu

Friday, September 20, 2013: Whew! This past week was another packed week of readings, with Clay and Susan Griffith and Natania Barron, The Hinge's Writers' Day at Flyleaf Books, Ursula Vernon's latest "Dragonbreath" book, John Claude Bemis hosting Stephen Messer and other writers, Emily Croy Barker, and Jasper Fforde. (Not to mention a packed weekend of screenings at The Escapism Film Festival.)

And this weekend and the week ahead, there's every bit as much to do, whether James Maxey's ebook publishing

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Friday Quick Updates: The Escapism Film Festival; Brier Creek BN hosts an ebook authors event with Clay and Susan Griffith and Natania Barron; Writer's Day at Flyleaf Books; John Claude Bemis and Stephen Messer; Ursula Vernon; Emily Croy Barker; and Jasper Fforde

Posted on 2013-09-13 at 17:20 by montsamu

Friday September 13, 2013: In lieu of recapping last week, on to today, which sees the first "full day" of The Escapism Film Festival at The Carolina Theatre of Durham -- from the Stargate screening at 2 pm through Starship Troopers at 9:10 -- after a few evenings of double features and ahead of Saturday and Sunday full-day schedules. Also tonight is a multi-author event at the Barnes and Noble of Brier Creek, with (among others) Clay and Susan Griffith and Natania Barron. Tomorrow (Saturday) will be a

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Friday Quick Updates: Mur Lafferty wins John W. Campbell Award; a new Kickstarter anthology featuring local authors; and the latest events updates

Posted on 2013-09-06 at 18:50 by montsamu

Friday Sep 6, 2013: I say it often but it bears repeating again: What a week! In terms of events, after a weekend of comics events we had David Drake launching new novel Monsters of the Earth on Tuesday, and "The Dark is Rising" author Susan Cooper reading on Wednesday. I'd love to see some pictures and hear some reports "from the field" from those who made it out to these events.

And we have so much more than events to talk about this week. As I reported on Facebook and Twitter on Sunday evening, Durham

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Friday Quick Updates: Lisa Hanawalt and Brian Ralph, David Drake, and Susan Cooper

Posted on 2013-08-30 at 15:11 by montsamu

Friday, August 30, 2013: Wow, what a week. Readings from Wilton Barnhardt, Marisha Pessl, Jason Mott, and (last night) Richard Kadrey, and now it seems the area is emptying of its creative critical mass as people head variously to DragonCon (Clay and Susan Griffith, Gail Z. Martin, Natania Barron, Laura Haywood-Cory, AJ Hartley, Gray Rinehart, Glennis LeBlanc, Davey Beauchamp, John Hartness, Jay Requard, and Bull Spec's own The Exploding Spaceship, Gerald and Angela Blackwell, among many others), WorldCon (

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Friday Quick Updates: Wilton Barnhardt, AtomiCon, Marisha Pessl, Jeff Parker, Jason Mott, and Richard Kadrey

Posted on 2013-08-23 at 14:39 by montsamu

Friday, August 23: Whew. It's been a bit since I last put together the time to update, and this one's just in time for a packed schedule coming up including new historical fiction satire from NCSU professor Wilton Barnhardt, the first AtomiCon, literary terror from Marisha Pessl, comics writer Jeff Parker, NC author Jason Mott's speculative debut, Richard Kadrey -- and that's before next Friday comes around. Early September will see David Drake launch a new novel, a visit from The Dark is Rising author

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