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Posted on 2014-11-18 at 20:38 by montsamu

This Saturday evening (November 22, 7 pm) Quail Ridge Books hosts the next reading event in the NC Speculative Fiction Night series, "From the Trenches to the Stars", which is bringing together a fantastic panel of six authors for an evening of military science fiction and interstellar fantasy. It's for the latter where my interviewee today comes in. Charlotte author Lady Soliloque is the author of Immortalis Venatio: The Immortal Game and Enoch the Traveler: Tempestas Viator among other books and stories

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged enoch the traveler, lady soliloque, nc speculative fiction night, quail ridge books

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

Posted in Coming to Town, The Hardest Part | Tagged beth revis, flyleaf books, quail ridge books

Coming to Town: Kami Garcia and Carrie Ryan for Garcia's "Unmarked" at Quail Ridge Books, interviewed by Sharon Stogner

Posted on 2014-10-01 at 15:44 by montsamu

On Friday, October 3, Quail Ridge Books [Facebook] welcomes the NY Times bestselling coauthor of Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia, for Unmarked, the second novel in her "The Legion" series which began with Unbreakable, where "a supernatural murder leads a young woman to join a secret society, the Legion of the Black Dove." Joining Garcia for the event is Charlotte author Carrie Ryan, author of the chilling The Forest of Hands and Teeth series. Quoth the bookstore: "Join us as they converse on writing and

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged carrie ryan, kami garcia, quail ridge books, sharon stogner

Coming to Town: Scott Westerfeld for Afterworlds at Quail Ridge Books, interviewed by Mur Lafferty

Posted on 2014-09-23 at 14:36 by montsamu

Scott Westerfeld came to prominence a decade ago with his award-winning and best-selling dystopian young adult series "Uglies", then set his sights on a middle grade alternate history of Steampunk "Clankers" and gene-splicing "Darwinists" for his "Leviathan" series, a fantastically-illustrated (and narrated, by Alan Cumming) adventure-romp through WW1-era Europe by diesel-powered mech walkers, modified whale airships, and (perhaps) even stranger methods. It's been 3 years since Goliath concluded that series

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged afterworlds, mur lafferty, nanowrimo, quail ridge books, Scott Westerfeld

Local author new release: Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle

Posted on 2014-09-18 at 18:43 by montsamu

John Darnielle's brilliant lyricism is no secret to Triangle-area fans of his internationally-acclaimed band The Mountain Goats. Fewer have, however, taken the plunge (or perhaps known about) his more lengthily literary side, expressed most publicly (until now) as a novella in Continuum's 33 1/3 series, Black Sabbath: Master of Reality, a 100-page examination of the classic heavy metal album from the perspective of a 15-year-old psychiatric patient. His first full-length novel, Wolf in White Van, was

Posted in Release Day | Tagged John Darnielle, quail ridge books, the regulator, wolf in white van

Coming to Town: Kim Harrison at Quail Ridge Books for The Witch with No Name

Posted on 2014-09-10 at 13:33 by montsamu

This is it. This is the big one. Kim Harrison's bestselling "Hollows" series kicked off with 2004's Dead Witch Walking and yesterday saw the publication of the concluding thirteenth novel, The Witch with No Name. Harrison has come through town on her tours for many of the previous books, most recently just back in March for The Undead Pool, and NC writer/editor Sharon Stogner reprises her role as "Coming to Town" interviewer ahead of Harrison's next local appearance, this Friday (September 12) at Raleigh's

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged kim harrison, quail ridge books, sharon stogner

Coming to Town: Deborah Harkness for The Book of Life, interviewed by Sharon Stogner

Posted on 2014-07-22 at 19:08 by montsamu

Deborah Harkness was at Raleigh's Quail Ridge Books on Saturday as part of her ongoing tour for The Book of Life, the highly-anticipated final installment of the bestselling All Souls Trilogy which began with A Discovery of Witches. The sequel Shadow of Night debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and in total, over one million copies have been sold in the States with publications following in 38 countries. While we couldn't have this interview for you prior to her reading and signing, Quail

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged deborah harkness, quail ridge books, sharon stogner

Coming to Town: D.B. Jackson (David B. Coe) at Quail Ridge Books for A Plunder of Souls, interviewed by Margaret S. McGraw

Posted on 2014-07-18 at 16:34 by montsamu

D.B. Jackson (also known to fantasy readers as David B. Coe) is an Award-winning author of fifteen published novels. He’s currently on a book signing tour to promote the newly released A Plunder of Souls, third in the Thieftaker Chronicles, and will be at Raleigh’s Quail Ridge Books and Music on Monday, July 21^st, at 7:30pm. Jackson is a frequent visitor in the Carolinas, including the South Carolina Writers’ Workshop, ConCarolinas in Charlotte, and most recently, ConGregate in Winston-Salem. Here, Jackson

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged david b coe, db jackson, margaret s mcgraw, quail ridge books

Coming to Town: Jeff VanderMeer at Quail Ridge Books for Authority, interviewed by Mur Lafferty

Posted on 2014-07-08 at 19:12 by montsamu

Tallahassee author Jeff VanderMeer has been no stranger to the Carolinas, both through his work teaching at the SharedWorlds teen writing summer camp at Wofford College and quite a few events over the years. We're thrilled to be welcoming him back again this year as part of his Southern Reach Summer Tour which includes 4 stops in the Carolinas in just over a week, starting and ending with Wednesday events (July 9th and 16th) at Hub City in Spartanburg, SC around readings on Thursday (July 10th) at Raleigh’s

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged jeff vandermeer, mur lafferty, quail ridge books

Coming to Town: Mary Robinette Kowal for Valour and Vanity at Quail Ridge Books

Posted on 2014-05-10 at 17:29 by montsamu

Raleigh native Mary Robinette Kowal has not been a stranger: she launched her debut novel (and with it her Glamourist Histories series), Shades of Milk and Honey in August 2010 at NASFIC in Raleigh; a year ago today she returned for book 3, Without a Summer; in January this year she was co-guest-of-honor at illogiCon; and! on Monday (May 12) at 7:30 pm, she's back again, this time to close her tour for book 4, Valour and Vanity, at Quail Ridge Books. Her events are always fantastic: Regency attire, a

Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged mary robinette kowal, quail ridge books

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