The Bodhisattva

I just posted the interview I conducted with David Anthony Durham at Fantasybookspot.com. Mr. Durham’s fantasy debut, Acacia, is scheduled for a June release - the first book in an epic fantasy from an author whose previous trade was in Historical Fiction.
Big thanks to Mr. Durham for the time and consideration.
A reminder - I [...]

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Just cleaned up the blog a bit, getting rid of dead links, updating others, out right tossing out some, and adding some. A lot of the times I will note sites/blog in my posts but I get slack when adding them to the blogroll. I’m all about the Fan Roar and whatnot and the [...]

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I’m a true NFL fan, you know this because I’m a Lion’s fan. I’m also a draft junkie since about ‘89. So I offer this to Matt Millen:
If we don’t get a stupid deal (I’m talking Herschel, Eli, level) - a deal that involves 2 #1’s (one next year) we take our 4th WR in [...]

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I just posted my review of Acacia: The War With The Mein by David Anthony Durham some new epic fantasy goodness from DoubleDay/Random House that you should see on the shelf everywhere around June. This is a debut fantasy offering but Durham is not new to writing having written some historical fiction.
Durham firmly separates [...]

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Lots of award gibberish:
- Was reading Jeffrey Ford’s blog and Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead by Alan DeNiro is the LitBlog Co-Op Spring 2007 Choice
- Wizards of the Coast starting a new imprint. Regard:
“Wizards of the Coast Discoveries will feature titles in a range of sub-genres including urban horror and literary [...]

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We got a bit of a hodgepodge at FBS over the last week or so (which is the aim)
- Damon interviews Forgotten Realms author Richard Lee Byers.
- We have some odd contest that is neither (and when I type neither I mean ‘nither’) in the contest forum nor seems official (which I like). [...]

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Damon just put up the cover for Heliotrope#2 over at the FBS Forum! Here’s a sneak peak:

Big thanks to Liz Clarke.

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As I sit here under red skies; peering out at red seas outside my window, I do declare there is nothing quite like a post-Easter lynching.

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Taking a break from sitting my ass down and getting some reviews done this weekend to bring you some extra incentive that you really don’t need but you may commit murder to have. Essentially this is a bonus brought to you via bonus coverage time at the Bodhisattva. Special stuff.
Let’s get to the [...]

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First contest I’m announcing this month (as noted earlier here, Brian and Damon have some goods for you as well - so check it out). what I have here is a chance - no the privilege - to put writers like Hal Duncan, Jeff VanderMeer, Anna Tambour, Theodora Goss, Michael Moorcock, Jay Lake, Liz [...]

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- Hell yes! Congrats to Catherynne M. Valente for winning the Tiptree for her The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden (which I reviewed here)
- Info on R. Scott Bakker’s Aspect Emperor arc staring with The Great Ordeal via Amazon (which you an take for what it’s worth):
“Some twenty years have passed since the [...]

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Just a reminder (although the slush pile doesn’t really need it) as of April 1, Heliotrope is open for submissions for its third issue. Please make sure you read the updated guidelines - that features, yes, an increase in pay rate, but also some other new guidelines that aren’t as broad as we had [...]

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A day or two late but I just pulled two lucky winners who will each win signed copies of The Blade Itself and Before They Were Hanged by Joe Abercrombie. Congrats to the winners and thanks to all you folks who overloaded my PM box!
In the meantime, Damon has announced a John Scalzi contest [...]

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The Inaugural FBS Tournaments are over and R. Scott Bakker’s The Thousandfold Thought takes the Best Book of 2006 title making it already more sensible than almost every Award Ballot you have seen recently. George R.R. Martin beats down Tolkien to become the first All-Time Great nominated.
2006 Title Game Highlights:
- Team Bakker starts the [...]

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Recently three contests over at Fantasybookspot.com have com to a close - all offering widely different books for various tastes! Brian has something for the Mystery fans, announcing the winner of a copy of Peter Spiegelman’s Red Cat, Damon has the something for the kiddies announcing the two winners of a set [...]

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