The Bodhisattva

Three posts in a day is a rarity, luckily I have no actual content -
Get off your fat asses, grab that one credit card you have that isn’t overdrawn and you won’t be spending the rest of your life paying off, jump into your gas-guzzling piece of shit Ford SUV, drive out of your [...]

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Churchill knew about links before anyone!
Okay, a rather large link dump, as some damn interesting news and a rather high number of odd occurrences (aka Starwars Fan fiction for sale) have been stirring discussion:
- Slush Pile.net has an interesting post entitled Why People Hate Self-Published Authors.
- I don’t how I have been missing this, [...]

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I want to thank everyone who has submitted thus far (please keep it coming!), but wanted to go ahead and add some clarity to my previous announcement in response to questions I have been getting. I posted the update info here. I will update that page (and announce it via regular blog post [...]

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Title: Crystal Rain
Pages: 352
Publisher: Tor
Series/Related Titles: Ragamuffin (forthcoming)
The saying goes that first impressions are the most important and lasting. When it comes to reading, this is countered by the idiom ,“you can’t judge a book by its cover”; while most of us have been around long enough to know neither comment proves veracious enough [...]

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Okay, in the last couple of months I have been working on a project I wanted to introduce to Fantasybookspot.com for a while. Anyone familiar with out site knows we are a review and interview site that opens are doors to all form of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and the opinions that accompany them, the [...]

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Unusual amount of good stuff going on that I have been collecting in my out of control bookmarks that I haven’t had a time to note (thus dated a bit) -
- Abigail Nussbaum reviews the shortlisted Hugo Nominees. Her conclusion represents what I think is the slam-dunk of all the categories. [...]

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I have been a bit inactive in the last few days, causing some to think perhaps my recent trend of activity to be a fluke but . It probably was, but this is the second of two contests at Fantasybookspot.com I’m announcing today and I have been working on some site related G-14 classified [...]

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At the beginning of the year I reviewed a debut novel by Naomi Novik called His Majesty’s Dragon (aka Temeraire in the UK). Now, I’m announcing a draw at Fantasybookspot.com for a lucky winner to win His Majesty’s Dragon and the sequel coming out this month Throne of Jade.
Here is the synopsis [...]

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I have to get rid of these links crowding my bookmarks

- Salman Rushdie writes new introduction for the 25th anniversary of his incredible Midnight’s Children
- Listen to A.S. Byatt on literary radio talk show Bookworm.
- The BSFA (British Science Fiction Association) has all the nominated shortfiction online. Asimov’s has also made available its [...]

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I just announced the winner of Fantasybookspot.com’s April draw to win a autographed copy of A Shadow in Summer, his debut novel, and the opening book in his Long Price Quartet (I reviewed the book, and interviewed Abraham last month).
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Go find out if you are the winner! Thanks to all who participated, [...]

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Briefly as I’m busy today (to those fellow enlightened who also define business as checking out the influx of beach going tourists flooding into town).
-The Magic Words:
I got the Night Shade newsletter today, and got hit with “Firmly in the vein
of Perdido Street Station, The Etched City, and City of Saints and Madmen.” [...]

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