The Bodhisattva

*opens window while pondering why that a Renly figure didn’t come with the Knight of Flowers figure in the Dark Sword Miniatures set*
Back with the week that was at BookSpot Central!
-Interviews:
- I kicked off our shorter, topic-specific, slightly tongue-and-cheek interview format this week - The BookSpot Beat - talking Predator with Jeff VanderMeer and [...]

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Yesterday I put up the second BookSpot Beat over at BookSpot Central. Again, BookSpot Beat is basically:
In short it’s an interview limited to ten questions that focuses on one specific topic. It’s a feature meant to give me little more room to tackle and ask questions about news that pops up that doesn’t turn into [...]

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Over at BookSpot Central I just announced a contest for all of those Wheel of Time fans that want to scout the guy that’s going to be ending their saga! What they are going to find is some solid work by Brandon Sanderson and here is chance to grab four of his books - signed! [...]

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Yesterday over at BookSpot Central I announced a contest that will award a winner ever week for the next 20 weeks - that’s also a George R.R. Martin’s fan’s delight! Dark Sword Miniatures and BookSpot Central join forces for the betterment of Westeros fans!
Every Monday at BookSpotCentral will be Masterworks Monday and we will announce [...]

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Yesterday over at BookSpot Central I announced a contest opportunity for a a copy of Caine Black Knife by Matthew Stover! I reviewed this book earlier this month and we have the exclusive 2-part excerpt for you to sample!!
It’s just a continuation of Caine goodne. . . badassness and this copy will be signed by [...]

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I asked the BookSpot Central contributors if they could list a few of their Halloween favorites a couple weeks ago and I just posted their choices!
We also had a special guest contributor, author Steve Mosby, who has written The Third Person, The Cutting Crew, and The 50/50 Killer .
GO CHECK THAT OUT!
Thanks to all who [...]

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Okay people, a debut of a new little feature at BookSpot Central. I’m going to cut/paste the intro to explain it a bit and then add more here that I didn’t want to say in the feature to clutter the feature itself:
This introduces a new type of feature at BookSpot Central today! We have [...]

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*opens windows and takes a deep breath, “mesh’la.”*
Back for another weekly round-up of the week that was at BookSpot Central. It’s about to heat up more this week, so time to catch while you can!
-Exclusives:
This week brought you a chapter excerpt to Way of Shadows the first book in Brent Week’s Night Angel trilogy published [...]

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Okay peeps, this is going to be real busy week starting today in terms of content/feature at BookSpot Central so stay tuned (I have two features I don’t even have titles for yet!) and we are going to kick it off with a chance to win some books by writer who is also contributor at [...]

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It’s us again! All we do is have daily goodies!  This morning we get to back to some exclusive contest as over at BookSpot Central I just posted a chapter from The Way of Shadows, the first book in the Night Angel Trilogy, by Brent Weeks.

This was released this month! We have the second chapter [...]

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I’ve been getting some reading done, so here are some brief thoughts (some reviewed already, some not).
- Paul of Dune by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert
Self-Admittedly, I’m just one of those people that can’t get over the absolute change in voice, direction and perceived depth of post-Frank Herbert work. If these weren’t branded [...]

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I’ve always wondered why a lot of these ‘franchise’ books weren’t always going after top writers from the beginning - I mean who better to write alien badasses on earth than some of the best speculative authors on the planet (psssst…some of which who are also the best writers of fiction today). Dark Horse, in [...]

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Earlier todayover at BookSpotCentral I put up my review of G.I. Joe#0, an early look at at an issue that contains three stories that each offer a teaser for the three titles IDW will be publishing in 2009.
GO CHECK OUT MY REVIEW!
The three titles will be G.I. Joe (Chuck Dixon and Robert Atkins), G.I. Joe: Origins [...]

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Over at BookSpotCentral I just put up my review of Matthew Stover’s latest, Caine Black Knife, that was released a couple days ago be Del Rey. A review I really struggled with as it’s tough to really talk about facets of this book without revealing too much. It does tell two stories (one from the [...]

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I didn’t really dig the round-up being at the BSC so, here we go, the last couple of the weeks that were at BookSpotcentral!
Exclusives:
- We have the exclusive on the first 2 parts of Matthew Stover’s latest Caine Black Knife published by Del Rey this week!
- In late September we also featured an [...]

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