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Bull Spec Poetry Reviewed!

Posted on 2011-08-26 by Natania

New speculative poetry review site Versification reviews the poetry in Bull Spec issues 1-6! I’m particularly happy that Versification‘s Erik Amundsen is the reviewer, as I’ve enjoyed his other reviews there. Overall, he provides a solid critique for our work … Continue reading →

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Rich Horton summarizes Bull Spec, year one.

Posted on 2011-02-02 by Natania

In his LiveJournal The Elephant Forgets, Rich Horton summarizes the first year of Bull Spec and gives a statistical roundup along a pair of axes (author gender and story genre). In particular he notes Lavie Tidhar‘s “The Story of Listener and Yu-En” (issue … Continue reading →

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A nice review of Bull Spec #3 in Mark Watson’s Best SF.

Posted on 2011-01-11 by Natania

Mark Watson recently reviewed Bull Spec #3 in Best SF and had some nice things to say, along with introducing me to some British zine terminology like “sides” rather than the pedestrian “pages”, and says, “There’s a lot in the … Continue reading →

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A great article on the first year of Bull Spec in today’s Independent Weekly.

Posted on 2011-01-06 by Natania

The Independent Weekly’s Brian Howe has a very nice article in this week’s issue, which is free to pick up all over the Triangle. Somehow he turned 90 minutes of rambling, disorganized nonsense into a no-nonsense article which hits on … Continue reading →

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Video overview of BULL SPEC #1 starring: the editor and his cats.

Posted on 2010-05-27 by Natania

So. In early-ish April my cats and I filmed a brief overview of BULL SPEC #1, and there was (other than intermittent interruption by cat) a pretty big problem: I’d held my finger over the camera’s microphone for a pretty … Continue reading →

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Two quick little fun things.

Posted on 2010-05-13 by Natania

First, I took a few minutes the other day to fill out the questionnaire form for Duotrope’s Editor Interview for BULL SPEC. Some of the questions were fun, some were harder, some were impossible: “Describe what you publish in 25 characters or … Continue reading →

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Taking over the title for most in-depth review of Bull Spec #1: Frank Dutkiewicz.

Posted on 2010-05-11 by Natania

I’d enjoyed Frank Dutkiewicz’s very detailed reviews of Writers of the Future XXIV and XXV, and asked him if he’d take a look at Bull Spec #1 and give me the same honest, critical feedback. Wow. He more than delivered, … Continue reading →

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Another review! Bookgasm’s Rodd Lott reviews BULL SPEC #1.

Posted on 2010-04-14 by Natania

While he found some things I need to do better (such as give the reader something to go on before plunging them into an interview), Bookgasm’s Rodd Lott also had some very kind things to say in his review of … Continue reading →

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Well, that’s neat. BULL SPEC #1 is “very cool.”

Posted on 2010-04-06 by Natania

In “Bull Spec” On Target for Speculative Fiction, Suvudu blogger (among many other things) Matt Staggs says the magazine is “very cool.” That’s very cool of him. Not as cool as this picture of him: But pretty darned cool. Also … Continue reading →

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