The Bodhisattva

I’m really not.
I’m being goaded into mentioning this. Indeed it is a quite brilliant stratagem, as the same attitude that I possess that is being made light of is indeed the very thing that is being relied upon to spread the word of actually pointing people to it. For this - dare I say [...]

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Just kind of an all purpose post.

First, over at FBS Brian just announced a new contest for fans of mystery and this one apparently is on the humor tip* as well, written by Troy Cook and entitled 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers, he also recently announced the winner of a previous contest [...]

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Hell Yes!
I just announced a contest over at Fantasybookspot.com that will give one lucky winner a chance to walk away with China Mieville’s latest Un Lun Dun signed by the China-man himself.

The synopsis:
What is Un Lun Dun you ask?
“It is London through the looking glass, an urban Wonderland of strange delights where all the lost [...]

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There has been talk about a blog post by Paul S. Kemp (that I had seen previously) on various boards. I didn’t really have an opinion until I saw my named mentioned as a sidenote at another forum relating to it.
I have attempted a response a couple of times today, and I just ended up [...]

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Everybody else gets the perks, but at least they are with little doubt more responsible with them then I’d be. I would totally be trying to harlan Jewel Staite, who isn’t really my type honestly (too happy looking, innocent smile - I don’t trust these characteristics) * take her where she cannot stand, I [...]

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Well, I’m bending the truth. It’s not so much a preview, but a bit of a tongue-and-cheek piece I just put up a piece at Fantasybookspot.com where our contributors and myself put up the books we are most looking forward to this year . Some of you may not enjoy what I enjoy, [...]

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I finished reading Valente’s (review on the way) Orphan’s Tales: In the Midnight Garden and the winner is in for a treat - there is some teriffic simultaneous storytellings (plural) going on here that even if you get lost in its weave, you enjoy finding your back. I just announced the winner of a [...]

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I never win anything.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a mean Madden Player, perhaps one the greatest Spades players to ever live, probably an untitled Chess Grandmaster, and straight-up trouble if you ran up on me in Never Winter Nights a few years ago (you had better had your boys with you because my Drow [...]

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Been quiet as I’m in the middle of reading a trifecta of goodness with Hal Duncan’s Ink, Mieville’s Un Lun Dun and Valente’s The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden.
Damon has announced winners of some (but not all) of our contests. The Cherie Priest book contest winner is here, the Jim Hines contest winner [...]

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