The Bodhisattva

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I just put up a review of a one-shot from DC Comics, Last Will and Testament, Brad Meltzer’s and Adams Kubert’s contribution around the Final Crisis event. I kind of just read it, felt something, and wanted to review it. This is basically how I roll with reviews, regardless of medium and I thought Melzter [...]

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Just wanted to let people know that I just put up the first four chapters of Dogs by Nancy Kress over at BookSpotCentral.com! This is another sweet sampler for our readers!

CHECK IT OUT!
Dogs was published by Tachyon in July of this year.
Nancy Kress has previously been the recipient the Hugo, Nebula, John Campbell, and Sturgeon [...]

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A bit of whip-up review from me. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a Star Wars fan but the only reason why I read this was because a podcast I listen to is choosing it as their Book of the Month and I just wanted to be able to follow the show. I actually received the [...]

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Kicking off the weekend with a chance to sample the first two chapters of the debut novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Empire in Black and Gold, book I of the Shadows of the Apt series.  Now, what BookSpotCentral has is the second chapter, but you can read the first chapter at Pan Macmillan’s site, allowing readers [...]

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After a few weeks off from this feature used to work on launching BookSpot Central, I’m back to regular schedule with my weekly participation with a random group of bloggers to discuss a novel or collection that slipped through the cracks and deserves diggin’ through the crates (or *sigh* more boring, online) to give a [...]

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