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Entries from September 2008

No Millen, Miller time!

September 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Being a Detroit Lions fan is really something unique as I don’t know if we can even be considered NFL fans as we haven’t really played in the league (though we have played at the league) for some time now.  I mean if you consider our recent Golden Years were helmed by people named Scott [...]

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Tags: Detroit Lions · NFL · Restore the Roar

Win - The Well-Built City Trilogy by Jeffrey Ford (two sets!)

September 29th, 2008 · No Comments

No case of Mondays here, as over at BookSpotCentral for those feeling a bit down due to the economy, work, or more importantly your favorite football team losing over the weekend, Jay Boogie is is back to give everybody a chance at some good reading by one of the best in this business. Jeffrey Ford [...]

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Tags: Jeffrey Ford · The Well-Built City Trilogy · contest

Win - A Field Guide to Surreal Botany (signed)

September 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Over at BookSpotCentral I just announced another chance to score some more Autumn reading. Something for the fans of short fiction, A Field Guide to Surreal Botany, an anthology published by Two Cranes Press and edited by Jason Erik Lundberg and Janet Chui.

To get more information on how to get in on this contest and [...]

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Tags: A Field Guide to Surreal Botany · contest

Interview - Adrian Tchaikovsky

September 26th, 2008 · No Comments

More progress, as I get back to content, post-Empire building!  I just put up my interview with novelist Adrian Tchaikovsky over at BookspotCentral. Adrian debut’s Empire in Black and Gold was published by Pan Macmillan in July and it kicks off his Shadows of the Apt series.
Earlier this month BookSpotCentral hosted an exclusive chapter to [...]

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Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky · Interview

Review - Batman: Murder At Wayne Manor by Duane Swierczynski and David Lapham

September 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Yesterday I put up a review of Duane Swierczynski’s and David Lapham’s original graphic novel, Batman: Murder at Wayne Manor, over at BookspotCentral. It’s a interesting little book and as I’ve said before, I lvoe the OGN format and think it allows for the highest value in terms of creativity from sequential art (the pretentious [...]

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Tags: Batman · David Lapham · Duane Swierczynski · Murder At Wayne Manor

Win - The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont (signed - 2 winners!)

September 25th, 2008 · No Comments

I just announced another contest at BookSpotCentral! This is an opportunity to win one of my previous Forgotten Friday picks, The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril, written by Paul Malmont. These are signed by the author and I’m very pleased to be able to present these.

Get more information on the book and contest at BookSpotCentral!
I want [...]

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Tags: Paul Malmont · The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril · books · contest

First Dick Pulp

September 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments

So, I collect pulps and I wanted to share a couple of recent purchases. Pulps are basically the heart and soul of everything we label as genre in American Fiction. Certainly many influences are taken from film these days, but I think you’ll find that a lot of those classic westerns or crime noir films [...]

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Tags: Fantasy Covers · Philip K. Dick · Pulps

Impossible Encounters by Zoran Zivkovic (Exclusive Chapter)

September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Over at BookspotCentral I just put up an exclusive look at forthcoming work from the wonderful Zoran Zivkovic. Impossible Encounters is slated for a an Autumn release from AIO Publishing.

Here is a synopsis of the book:

“A nuanced mix of the ordinary with the surreal, the mundane with the sublime, this mosaic novel quietly twists trusted [...]

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Tags: Uncategorized

BookSpotCentral Launch!

September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Just wanted to let people know that we got most of the back-end stuff done for our full relaunch as BookSpotCentral! From a visitor perspective, it probably just amounts to minor, not noticeable changes from the soft launch but we did add a nifty new background to the top of our forum.
I kind of went [...]

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Tags: BookSpotCentral

Win - Dogs signed by Nancy Kress

September 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Over at BookSpotCentral.com I just announced a contest giving our readers a chance to win a copy of her novel, Dogs, signed by Ms. Kress. 

As you know may know I have previously announced that  have the exclusive sample to the first four chapters of Dogs and have also in the past  hosted a piece of [...]

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Tags: Dogs · Nancy Kress · Tachyon · contest