The Bodhisattva

*wipes six finger hand-print off windows and opens it *

Here it is the weekly recap at happening at the ‘bookspot:

-Exclusives:

- We have a preview chapter from Ken MacLeod’s forthcoming The Night Sessions. Big-ups to Sam Boogie for giving us the opportunity to being able to you a first look at one of SF’s best!

- We also have one that came from on our members being at Wiscon. FBS is coming to your area code! We have the first two chapters to Ginn Hale’s The Wicked Gentlemen.

- We also have a look at Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me by Martin Millar. This is the first two chapters from the republished edition coming from Soft Skull.

More coming in the comics as the deal-maker ( was going for King-maker but born a couple centuries too late) as the Kobiashi of SF/F industry keeps locking up exclusive opportunities for our readers.

-Reviews:

- Damon gets a shot at reviewing Futurama: The Beast will a Billion Backs. The bookspot is now in a position where we are now able to review DVDs for various studios. Nobody is surprised.

“Since I got to watch this one early it means an even longer time before I get to watch the third part, as Bender would say “Well I’m boned.”

He also reviews The Spiderwick Chronicles (Blu-Ray)

“Overall, a rather rushed effort that is really too scary to lend itself to a young child’s viewing. Maybe being a well versed fantasy reader had an effect on my review, or maybe reading the books may be necessary to fully enjoy it. The special effects save this movie for a lower score from this reviewer, and everyone should see them in glorious High Definition at some point.”

- Val digs into a series that has a more dedicated than you’d first believe fanbase with a review of Lynn Flewelling’s The Oracle’s Queen.

- Trinu takes a look at something I’m actually quite unfamiliar with (doesn’t happen a lot I’m afraid), The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly which sounds rather interesting

“The Book of Lost Things” is a not only a brilliant re-invention of some of our most beloved fairy tales, but also a very beautiful and poignant story about a young boy’s attempt to come to terms with the loss of his mother”.

- Craig Gidney reviews Ekaterina Sedia’s (who along with Matt Staggs is up for the suddenly all up in our face award for 2008) Alchemy of Stone.

“Love and Revolution in the city of misfit toys.”

He also interviewed her for us in April!

-Bookspot Family Blogs:

Just wanted to drop a note that Saundra just joined our family of blogs being host by the B-spot. A couple of our readers are about to do the same and this an open offer to anyone that plans to regularly blog about anything remotely related to what we cover (which is everything). Comics, books, art, mystery, film, horror, crime - a fan, artist, sith - whatever. You have creative freedom (as long as it doesn’t get obviously out of line). We will bring your pre-existing content over if applicable and you get the full power of wordpress on our service coin. You also retain whatever amazon ads you have. What do you gain? I don’t want people to think this is some instant readership deal, it’s not; like any other blog your readership goes up or down by your content and frequency of it. What you get are the options opened by having a site hosted (unlike wordpress.com blogs for example) and be part of some thing we are going to do in our site redesign (next month) to help drive traffic. Other options will become apparent with our site redesign and features we will be adding. Speaking of our redesign - lots of cools stuff planned with that and stages afterwards!

-Reflection:

Last week I told you folks that our ad rates were a bargain and a couple days after a major publisher took heed (unrelated - but I’m claiming it!). These doors are soon closing as we go high rolllers status in coming months and hopefully have just cemented (well, more like  surveyed the land - the cements is on order) on  another deal that will allow us the freedom to do even more for our readers. We are talking Dave-sighting status people!