Vol 2. No. 5, Thursday, June 7, 2012:

Wow, did May fly by or what? New books (Mark L. Van Name’s No Going Back, John Claude Bemis’s The Prince Who Fell From the Sky complete with launch party extravaganza last Saturday), more events (David Halperin, Alethea Kontis, Free Comic Book Day) and last weekend’s ConCarolinas in Charlotte. We also had a good bit of local and regional author awards news ranging from storySouth selections to another Nebula Award for Kij Johnson.

June is shaping up to be quite a month as well, with more events (Jeremy Whitley at Ultimate Comics on Saturday, Kevin Hearne at Flyleaf Books on Tuesday, a whole panel of local authors at the B&N of Cary late this month), more new books (James Maxey’s Hush), and ConTemporal on June 21-24, there’s plenty to keep busy.

Looking longer-term, there’s some bad news and good news. The bad news is that while the event fairy giveth, the event fairy can also take away. I’m pretty bummed to announce that the planned August 5th event with Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, Tobias S. Buckell, and Karin Lowachee has had to be canceled. It was just too much to try to swing another post-Shared Worlds road trip this year. But! The good news is that Flyleaf Books will still be hosting an absolutely fantastic event on August 5th: two regional science fiction and fantasy authors, South Carolina’s T. C. McCarthy (Germline, Exogene, and the forthcoming Chimera) and Virginia’s Michael J. Sullivan (The Riyria Revelations series) are coming to town for a mini Orbit regional author-palooza. So keep that time slot booked, and start spreading the word! (How, you may ask? Why, with this handout, of course, and with the Facebook event link below!)

-Sam

JUNE 2012

NEW: 8-10 (Friday through Sunday): Durham’s Carolina Theatre hosts a “Battle of the Groovy Movie Film Series” with Battle Royale and Predators among the lineup: 8-10 (Friday through Sunday): Durham’s Carolina Theatre hosts a “Battle of the Groovy Movie Film Series” with Battle Royale and Predators among the lineup: http://www.carolinatheatre.org/films/battle-groovy-movie-film-series-schedule

NEW: 9 (Saturday) 12p to 4p — Ultimate Comics hosts Jeremy Whitley for a signing of the collected Eisner-nominated Princeless comic book, complete with fencing demonstration: https://www.facebook.com/events/200028633453186/200038296785553/

NEW: 12 (Tuesday) 7 pm — Flyleaf Books hosts Kevin Hearne, author of the Iron Druid Chronicles series, for a reading and signing event.