Posts tagged: flyleaf books

The Hardest Part: Lawrence M. Schoen on Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard

Posted on 2016-01-22 at 18:6 by montsamu

Author Lawrence M. Schoen is a busy man. When he's not holding court as one of the world's foremost experts on Klingon, or adding new Conroyverse stories featuring everyone's favorite oxygen-producing buffalito (think: miniature genetically-engineered buffalo the size of small cats which eat anything and fart oxygen, quite useful in space, eh?), or attending about a dozen conventions per year at which he is a panelist on Star Trek, writing, hypnosis, neuroscience, and more -- oh, did I mention he was a

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Coming to Town: Adam Christopher for Made to Kill at Flyleaf Books, interviewed by Mur Lafferty

Posted on 2015-11-10 at 15:27 by montsamu

New Zealand-born British novelist Adam Christopher (Empire State, The Burning Dark, Seven Wonders, and Hang Wire) is making a rare US appearance at Chapel Hill's Flyleaf Books this Saturday [Facebook] to read from his forthcoming novel Made to Kill, which begins his new “L.A. Trilogy” from Tor Books: “Set in Hollywood 1965, Made to Kill is very much a noir mystery, except that the detective is a robot (with a heart of gold) and his Gal Friday is a supercomputer with a Lucille Bluth sensibility. The novel

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The Hardest Part: Alexandra Duncan on Sound, ahead of her appearance this Sunday at Flyleaf Books

Posted on 2015-10-09 at 13:57 by montsamu

Asheville author Alexandra Duncan's new novel Sound is the stand-alone companion to her award-winning novel Salvage, a debut that internationally bestselling author Stephanie Perkins called “kick-ass, brilliant, feminist science fiction.” But I believe my interest was piqued when it was being described as perfect "for fans of Beth Revis, Firefly, and Battlestar Galactica." In Salvage, the action focused on Ava, "a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated, conservative deep space merchant ship Parastrat

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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 14:8 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

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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

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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: 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

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The Hardest Part/Coming to Town: Beth Revis on The Body Electric

Posted on 2014-10-16 at 18:11 by montsamu

North Carolina author Beth Revis achieved fantastic critical and commercial success with her Across the Universe series, a young adult science fiction trilogy about "a love out of time and a spaceship built of secrets and murder" that has been translated into more than 20 languages. For The Body Electric, Revis once again offers a young adult science fiction novel, this time focused on memory, identity, and trust: "The future world is at peace. Ella Shepherd has dedicated her life to using her unique gift

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Coming to Town: Marie Lu for The Young Elites at Flyleaf Books, interviewed by Sharon Stogner

Posted on 2014-10-06 at 18:11 by montsamu

This Wednesday (October 8th) Chapel Hill's Flyleaf Books welcomes Marie Lu, the bestselling author of the Legend trilogy, for her new young adult novel The Young Elites, out tomorrow from Putnam Juvenile: "Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through her nation. Most of the infected perished, while many of the children who survived were left with strange markings. Adelina’s black hair turned silver, her lashes went pale, and now she has only a jagged scar

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Coming to Town, belated edition: Lev Grossman at Flyleaf Books for The Magician's Land

Posted on 2014-09-07 at 3:23 by montsamu

Lev Grossman was recently in the Carolinas for a stop on his tour for The Magician's Land, which debuted on the NY Times bestseller list at #1. At a "standing room only" event at Flyleaf Books, he talked about The Magicians and The Magician King, read from The Magician's Land, and engaged in a lively Q&A session with the audience. Since, he has also just appeared at The Bookmarks Festival of Books and Authors in Winston-Salem; previously, he was a guest of the North Carolina Literary Festival in April, as

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