Special Feature: No is no Special Feature for this week, but I do have a special notice:
While I still do not have anything for this weeks Special Feature, I do have a special notice below from the crew at Boxcar Astronaut titled "Guest Strip Project" that was also posted to their blog:
"A brand new comic strip by the co-creator of Boxcar Astronaut has just gone up at: www.moovok.co.uk/gsp/ For those of you not familiar with the Guest Strip Project, it is the brain child of Mike Rouse-Deane, lover of webcomics and organizer of ambitious projects. The concept of the Guest Strip Project is simple, enlist many of the top webcomic artists around and put together a long running strip featuring a different artist for each installment. Throw in the fact that any donations go to the Make-A-Wish International Foundation and you've got a winning idea!
So go to www.moovok.co.uk/gsp/ and read the latest installment by Marc Lapierre, and be sure to go back thorough the previous strips to see some of the fantastic work done by other webcomic superstars! If you find you've got some pennies laying around, make a donation while you're there."
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I'm still looking for contributors for this Special Features section, so if you are a local writer or artist, and have something you would like featured here, just drop me a line. Plus I am still looking for assistants to help with this blog, so if you're interested let me know ~ Jim
News Headlines:
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Jordan Krall - Book release announcement
"My new book SQUID PULP BLUES is due out this summer from ERASERHEAD PRESS. It's a 3-novella collection of bizarro crime fiction filled with lots of weird and horrific noir craziness. Not to mention grotesque violence and black humor. Think Elmore Leonard meets David Lynch after a run in with David Cronenberg. For more info please check out www.filmynoir.com/"
News Worth Reposting:
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Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest - 20% storewide discount - Apex Book Company
"We're having a storewide sale to celebrate four excellent events:
1) The release of Orgy of Souls by Wrath James White & Maurice Broaddus
2) The release of Beauty & Dynamite by Alethea Kontis
3) The release of Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales by Fran Friel
4) THE COMPLETION OF OUR WEBHOST MIGRATION!
Just enter the code NEWHOST on checkout to receive your discount: http://www.apexbookcompany.com/"
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Are We Alone - "Skeptical Sunday: The Science of Indiana Jones"
He looks great in a fedora - we'll give him that. But surviving a tumble over three 100-foot waterfalls or toughing out an atomic blast by climbing into a refrigerator? We love Indy, but his exploits seem to be over the top when it comes to elementary physics. From hovercrafts to the quartz crania of aliens; find out what scientific concepts in the latest bullwhip adventure are more than a little nutty.
Plus, the real crystal skulls, and the man who discovered that two of the most famous are fakes. Also, an incentive to tackle that to-do list: the 2012 Mayan apocalypse. And, If I were Indy, our Hollywood Skeptic puts himself in the hero's boots. It's Skeptical Sunday, but don't take our word for it. Guests:
- Ian Freestone - Archaeologist at the University of Wales at Cardiff
- Matt Springer - Graduate Student at Texas A and M University and keeper of the website, www.builtonfacts.com
- Tom Rogers - Physics teacher at Southside High School in Greenville South Carolina, author of Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics and the founder of the web site of the same name
- Phil Plait - Astronomer,and keeper of the Bad Astronomy web site
- Jim Underdown - Executive Director, Center for Inquiry West in Los Angeles
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PNBA Announces Changes to Fall Trade Show
PNBA's Fall Trade Show in Portland will run Monday through Wednesday, Sept. 15-17, in 2008 rather than happening on the more traditional end-of-the-week pattern. The Trade Show, the largest of its kind held in the region, also moves to a new venue this year: the Portland Airport Holiday Inn and Convention Center.
According to PNBA director Thom Chambliss, the change of dates and venue should not impact attendance. Most booksellers, he said in a recent interview with Book Publishers Northwest (www.bpnw.org), prefer to come to a show during the week rather than over the weekend. PNBA is also trying to expand the show's audience by inviting librarians as well as booksellers to attend the education sessions and tour the trade show floor.
More information about PNBA's Fall Trade Show can be found at www.pnba.org.
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Alma Alexander - "Cybermage" available for preorder!
The third and final volume of the Worldweavers trilogy, "Cybermage", is available for pre-order here. They don't have a pic of the cover up yet, but you can go see a preview of that on my LiveJournal blog ( http://anghara.livejournal.com/ )!
Headlines From SF News Sites:
As always there are a lots of posts from io9, take a look at the four new postings from Science Fiction Awards Watch, & StarShipSofa presents "Aural Delights No 30 Michael Moorcock mp3"
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Apex Book Company: HyperiCon4
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Clarkesworld Magazine and Wyrm Publishing: Clarkesword Update, & Realms is Available and the Clarkesworld Census
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io9: The Secret Masters And The Conspiracy Against Democracy [Hugo Awards], G'Kar's Face Forever Frozen In Time, In An Alien Museum [G'Kar Mask In Museum], Hugo Gernsback’s RoboCops of 1924 [Retro Futurism], Don't Count The Tenth Doctor Out Just Yet [Doctor Who], The Empire's Last AT-AT Act Of Destruction [Star Wars], Time for a Max Headroom Movie [Found Footage], Neuromancer, As Performed in a Missouri Barn by Hippies and Baptists [Neuromancer], Saturn Awards Crown Cloverfield Best Scifi Film [The Saturn Awards], Help Support SF Webzine "Strange Horizons" [Strange Horizons], Davies: Returning "Who" Cast Is Different, Except They're Not [Doctor Who], The Searing Laugh Of Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible [Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog], Atomic Cars of the 1950s [Retro Futurism], & An Amazing Collection of "War of the Worlds" Book Covers [Concept Design]
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Locus Online: Locus Magazine: Sample Reviews
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RevolutionSF: Sci Fi Hunks 2008 (Feature), Get Smart (Review), & Jumper (Review)
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Science Fiction Awards Watch: Rushdie Knighted, Hugo Nominees Listings, Saturn Awards Winners, The New Classics, Matheson Wins Tähtivaeltaja Award, Atwood wins Prince of Asturias Award, & Crotchety Thoughts on the Hugos
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SciFi Scanner: The Behind the Scene Connections in Escape From New York, What Are the New SciFi Classics?, Daily Scan: 06.26.08 - SciFi Beach Reads; a New Poster for The Day the Earth Stood Still, SciFi Dept - Attack of the E.T. Ripoffs, M Is for Mad Scientist, Like Wall-E, These Robots Are Cleaning Up After Us Now, & Daily Scan: 06.25.08 - Nicolas Cage Lends His Voice to Astro Boy; Favreau Reveals The Avengers Line-up
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SF Novelists: My New Day Job
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SF Signal: MIND MELD: Interesting Areas of Scientific Research, SF Tidbits for 6/26/08, Quick Meme: What Was the Last Book You Bought?, At The Trailer Park: The Dark Knight, Wolverine and the X-Men, Disaster Movie, & SF Tidbits for 6/25/08
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SFScope: Susan E. Connolly sells first novel to Mercier Press, Entertainment Weekly judges the top 1000 of everything pop culture (since 1983), 34th annual Saturn Film/Television/DVD Award Winners, Contents of Best American Fantasy 2008, Nick Mamatas moving to VIZ Media; Clarkesworld temporarily closing to submissions, & Jim Fiscus to be new SFWA WRD
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StarShipSofa: Aural Delights No 30 Michael Moorcock mp3,
Selected Blog Updates:
There are quite a few local blogs tonight, so take a look at the blogs from BELL CON 2008, BIFFnews, Dark Horse Comics, Donna Barr, King County Library System, Nicola Griffith, Pacfic Science Center, Portland Steampunk Society, Spokane Comicon, & Yasmine Galenorn
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Alethea Kontis - "...and before I forget", & "Jason Loves Me"
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Are We A Blog? - Discovery of Earth-size Planets
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BELL CON 2008 - "Clayton Crain is coming to Bell Con"
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Burrard Inlet Fan Fellowship - BIFFnews - BIFFs and Agendas Go Their Separate Ways
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Chuck Palahniuk - "SURVIVOR T-Shirt Raffle! - 3 DAYS LEFT"
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Cynthia Leitich Smith - "YA Book News & Giveaways", "Auden Media Launches New Book Packager", "YA Author Interview: Dana Reinhardt on Harmless", & "Jennifer O’Connell on Everything I Needed To Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume"
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Dark Horse Comics - "New Titles Shipping This Week from Dark Horse - 6/25"
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David Thorpe - "Phew! Finished"
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Di Francis - "character interviewing", & "agent chat"
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Donna Barr: All Things Barr - Scorboropolis
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Fran Friel - Storewide 20% OFF?? Yuppers!
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HARPER PERENNIAL - "Enter the 'Free Books for a Year'", & "The First of Many, Andre Jordan "
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Horror Library Blog-O-Rama - "Storewide 20% OFF?? Yuppers! - by Fran Frie", & "When The Words Don’t Come Easy by Erik Smetana"
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JAMES AND DADDY - "James 5th birthday"
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Jodi Lee - "Best case, worst case ", & "Apex Celebratory Sale!"
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Karina L. Fabian - My writing adventure: Organizing the plot
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King County Library System - "Win FREE books and more!"
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Maria V. Snyder - "My Daughter ratted me out!"
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NexGen Pulp Magazine - A tease of CL Freire's New Book - Preorder TODAY!!!
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Nicola Griffith - "twenty years"
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Pacfic Science Center - Is A 'Staycation' In Your Plans This Summer?, PacSci-Doku: Natural Filter, 'Lucy' Tickets On Sale July 1, 'Dark Knight' Tickets On Sale Now!, & Science On Tap: Merging Robotics & Neuroscience
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Paul Levinson - Mars Soil Hospitable to Asparagus - Can Humans Be Far Behind?
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Paul S. Kemp - "Update to GenCon Appearance Schedule"
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Planet Pride - "Abrams Planetarium, Night Sky Notes ", "NASA Cassini Significant Events 06/11/08 - 06/17/08", & "Planet Formation Around the Sun’s Dusty Disk"
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Portland Steampunk Society - "Steampunk Dance Night at Dementia"
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Robert J Sawyer's Blog - "Video: "A Galaxy Far, Far Away" My Ass!", "Canadian SF editors", "Risk is our business", & "Janis Ian on Saturday Night Live this weekend"
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Rue Morgue Magazine - "Add The Rue Crew to your Friends List!"
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Scott Nicholson - "the career novelist"
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Sherrilyn Kenyon - "FREE Sherrilyn Kenyon Ebook Offer!", & "Trying this again"
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Shroud Magazine - "BENEATH THE SURFACE garners critical praise!"
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Spectra Pulse - "Feasting on the Paranormal"
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Spokane Comicon - "2009 Dealer & Artist Information"
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Terry Goodkind - "Message to all my fans.", & "Terry Goodkind Moves to Putnam for Three-Book Deal!"
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Tor Books - "Cory Doctorow: a Little Brother reading (second in a series)"
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Writers Together - EXTRA!!! EXTRA!!!! CINDY’S NEWS and EVENTS
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Yasmine Galenorn - "I *KNOW* some of you have read Dragon Wytch already.", & "Guest Blogging & Radio Interview Link"
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