The Bodhisattva

One of the really surprisingly delightful reads that I was bribed to praise last year was Paul Park’s A Princess of Roumania. It’s always a joy to read a book like this as at the time I had never read any of Park’s prior work and it gave me an opportunity to explore [...]

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What seems to happen much too often in the SF/F online community is that some of our greatest sources of opinion get to wrapped up in showcasing how well they can skirt certain topics of discussion that crop up, so better to enable themselves to lick the collective balls of the people who constantly remind [...]

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I just posted my review of In My Lifetime#1 by Tony Fleecs at The Comics Review.\par
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One of best comics I have read this year and you can check out a 6-page preview at Newsarama.\par
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Tags: books, book reviews, comic books

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Here is a brief gist:\par
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- I have two articles in hand I’m running with, both written by familiar writerly types and their checks are in the mail. I have a third commissioned and always looking for more. \par
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- I have several reviews, but would love to have more - if you have something [...]

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Very Cool. I wake up and FBS has a contest that I am reporting not announcing! Damon has announced that this contest (that’s our third contest announcement this month people) that 2 lucky winners will not only win a copy of Tim Eldred’s Grease Monkey but also a personalized sketch!\par
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Due to not reading [...]

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Hell yes. I just announced the winner of one copy, and now we have another copy signed by Lynch for one more lucky person as the prize in the second of our announced July contests. In case you forgot:\par
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“Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser would have felt right at home with the Gentleman Bastards. [...]

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Some stuff that caught my eye:\par
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- Jeff Vandermeer interviewed at SF.GR, where Jeff among other things Jeff says, “I think readers and reviewers should think of books as three-dimensional creatures that breathe and shit and are in all ways organic.” Jeff has also added to the great books that he is selling!\par
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- New Guy [...]

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I just announced the winner of Fantasybookspot.com\’e2\’80\’99s June contest, the prize being a copy of Scott Lynch’s The Lies of Locke Lamora (my review here).\par
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Check to see if you are the winner!\par
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Thanks to all who participated, as well as a special thanks to Scott Lynch and Gollancz. To be kept up to date with [...]

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I don’t know if this is normal, but I get a lot of people asking me what I’m reading, which is odd because I visit other blogs and after reading posts I end up with green thoughts,”damn that’s what I want to be reading” (creating visual image of Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the [...]

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Just put up my review for Fantasybookspot.com of Marshal#1 by Bill Tortolini and Andrew LoVuolo and featuring pencils by Abdul Rashid and published by DB Pro, who is run by some of the dopest peeps you will run across, the Dabel Brothers. Some terrific art by Rashid in a fast paced SF/Western hybrid in [...]

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I just posted my first review for Silver Bullet Comics, the first issue of Tag written by Keith Giffen and featuring art by Kody Chamberlain and published by Boom! Studios. Very effective horror that’s concious of the importance of establishing the real as a backdrop.\par
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Tags: books, book reviews, comic books

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A couple of weeks ago I noted Paul Jessup’s Lotus Lyceum, essentially a community blog to discuss fantasy topics worth discussing that has some drawn authors and some other recogniziable folks. I have been following some of the discussion there, and one of them is Wright’s Fantastic Fiction: To Label or Not To Label?.\par
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I have [...]

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Some news that caught my eye in the last couple of weeks -
- Jeff Vandermeer with the International Horror Guild award finalists. I have been rooting for Richard Bowes’ There’s a Hole in the City all year for every award. Whatever happens lets not make Kostova into another overblown author. [...]

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…at least until we get polled and vote Dan Brown.
I must have missed national half-price day on crack in England, but JK Rowling won a poll by The Book Magazine that anointed her the greatest living British writer.
“Our survey provides a fascinating insight into what the British public thinks makes a ‘great’ writer,” said Christine [...]

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Was reading the good old (not really old) Night Shade newsletter today and apparently they have a sale going on until June 12th where if you buy 3 or more books you get 40% off.
Seems like they also have a lot of hot books coming out like Elizabeth Bear’s The Chains That You Refuse, Jay [...]

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