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Friday Quick Updates: Merrie Haskell at The Regulator, "Fierce Reads Tour" including Leigh Bardugo at Quail Ridge Books, Free RPG Day, and more

Posted on 2013-06-14 at 20:03 by montsamu

Friday, June 14: It's a packed weekend with two readings tonight and two all-day events on Saturday. Tonight's readings are: Merrie Haskell for her new middle-grade fantasy Handbook for Dragon Slayers at Durham's The Regulator Bookshop at 7pm; and (also at 7 pm) Quail Ridge Books hosts a stop on a 5-author YA sf/f tour, "Fierce Reads", including Shadow & Bone author Leigh Bardugo. Tomorrow, the all-day events include Free RPG Day at gaming stores throughout the area, as well as Ultimate Comics' "Best of the

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The Shambling Guide to New York City Listen-a-Long: Chapters 3 and 4 (and release day coverage!)

Posted on 2013-05-29 at 13:48 by montsamu

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Animazement 2013: Day 1

Posted on 2013-05-25 at 03:11 by montsamu

I stopped by Day 1 of Animazement at the Raleigh Convention Center on Friday early afternoon, and already the 3-day anime-centered convention was well underway.

Even before I made it inside the Convention Center doors, Fayetteville Street was awash in Avengers (for a scheduled mass photoshoot on an external stairway) and all manner of other cosplayers:

Inside, most pre-registered attendees had already long since made their way through registration, but there were still some crowds milling about

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Friday Quick Updates: Richard Dansky's Vaporware; Animazement; and (this Wednesday) John Scalzi

Posted on 2013-05-24 at 15:06 by montsamu

Friday Quick Updates for Friday, May 24, 2013:

Durham author Richard Dansky's new novel Vaporware is now out from JournalStone! Congrats, Rich. I've been re-posting a few of the blurbs and guest posts and interviews about the book over on the Bull Spec Facebook and Twitter pages, so go check out this book about a video game project that refuses to be cancelled.

Locals Mark Van Name, Mur Lafferty, and Meagen Voss (among others) are heading up to Baltimore for Balticon this Memorial Day weekend, but here in

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Friday quick updates: Lucy Knisley, James Maxey, and IndieGogos, Kickstarters, and Shindigs, oh my!

Posted on 2013-05-17 at 15:34 by montsamu

Friday Quick Updates for May 17, 2013:

Two events tomorrow (Saturday), the first for writers, at 10 am, as Hillsborough author James Maxey will be teaching a class at the Orange County Library in Hillsboroug from 10 til noon called “Behind Every Great Book is a Great Rewrite.” From Maxey: “It’s going to start from the assumption that you’ve managed to write the first draft of a story or novel, and focus on the things that you should look to fix in later drafts”.

Also tomorrow (Saturday) Chapel Hill Comics

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Friday Quick Updates: Some miscelleaneous news, and events TODAY with Kelly Sue DeConnick and Mary Robinette Kowal

Posted on 2013-05-10 at 16:15 by montsamu

Friday updates for May 10, 2013:

First, there's two new Exploding Spaceship reviews that went up yesterday:

Second, some other tidbits:

Gabriel Dunston has a new podcast, "Getting Paid: a periodic podcast for creative professionals who want their living to be made off of

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Bull Spec "alumni" news

Posted on 2013-04-20 at 02:07 by montsamu

I'm always keeping tabs on the authors and poets and critics and artists I've been lucky enough to have published along the way so far, so here's four bits of Bull Spec "Alumni" news:

C.S. Fuqua ("Rise Up", Bull Spec #1) interviewed by Nerine Dorman on "This is my World"
Sofia Samatar ("The Year of Disasters", Bull Spec #7) has a new book just out, A Stranger in Olondria (Small Beer Press); she recently wrote an essay about the Big Idea behind her novel
Author James Maxey ("Tornado of Sparks", Bull Spec

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Thursday Quick Updates: Symposiums, Comics Fest, New Events, and the Bull Spec #8 Launch Party!

Posted on 2013-04-18 at 14:41 by montsamu

I'm sneaking the "Friday Quick Updates" in a day early to get the word out about a fascinating-looking symposium at Duke University which starts today, "Community & Emergent Order in non-state spaces", which features some interesting persons (Kim Stanley Robinson, David Friedman, Paul Cantor) and topics ("Vinge, Heinlein, the Sagas, and Me", "The Future Is My State"). All talks are free and open to the public, for more info check the events listing below the pictures. This isn't the only symposium, as NCSU

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Announcement: The third annual Bull Spec summer speculative fiction event!

Posted on 2013-03-29 at 19:26 by montsamu

March 29, 2013, DURHAM, NC -- Bull Spec is delighted to announce its third annual summer speculative fiction event, to be held Saturday August 3, 2013 at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC from 7 to 9 pm. The event series once again hosts a selection of Wofford College's Shared Worlds Teen Writing Summer Camp visiting writers, headlined by Mythopoeic and William L. Crawford Award-winning author Karen Lord -- who is traveling from Barbados -- and including Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, Will Hindmarch

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Friday Quick Updates: Ursula Vernon tonight! Then: ConTemporal at UNC-TV, Jeaniene Frost, and Richard Case

Posted on 2013-03-22 at 19:37 by montsamu

Before I get to the imminently forthcoming events, I have to take a quick moment to thank Jaym Gates again for putting the April 23 World Book Night / NC Speculative Fiction Night / Bull Spec Launch Party extravaganza together. It's going to be a great lineup of game designers and writers, authors, translators, and a huge crew of Bull Spec #8 contributors, and I hope a whole lot of you (and your friends and random strangers!) help make it a great night. (And it will be good to see Jaym again after far too

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