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 Star Wars with Paul S. Kemp.

-Reviews:

- Damon reviews Brett Weeks’ The Way of Shadows. People should be scared, he likes it which took it off the wantlist!

- Ken F. likes unFrank Dune in the form of Paul of Dune by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert.

- Trinu reviews Patricia Mckillip goodness taking a look at The Book of Atrix Wolfe.

- DWT takes a look at Veins by Lawrence C. Connolly.

- Rob continues his Clarke voyage with 3001: The Final Odyssey.
He also takes a look at the new Liz Bear work, All the Windwracked Stars.

- Maria does as the Bodhisattva foresaw by not doing what he says and reviewed The Skewed Throne by Joshua Palmatier.

-Articles/Columns:

- A Halloween edition of Damon’s Weekly Noise

- Mark’s music review column the Other Side of the Tracks takes a look at Keane - Perfect Symmetry.

- Author Sandra Ruttan brings us the second Saturday Sound-Off talkin’ Laura Lippman with The Names Don’t Get A Free Pass.

- The BookSpot Central family was joined by author Steve Mosby in presenting Givin’ Up the Goodies - a look at our favorite Halloween reads and shows.

-Current Contests:

We had some of our contests end this week so I brought back the damn thunder to replace them!

- I kicked of a contest that will run 20 weeks 9and 20 figures!) as BookSpot Central and Dark Sword Miniatures join forces to present the entire George R.R. Martin Masterwork collection - one each week! Get on that, the first figure up is Jon Snow!

- Yesterday I announced the Brandon Sanderson Library contest where you get all things Sanderson. You will win singed copies of his entire Mistborn Trilogy and his stand-alone Elantris

- I announced an opportunity to win a signed copy of Caine Black Knife
by Matthew Stover! Check out our exclusive excerpt from the novel and my review!

- I have 5 copies of a Predator novel. A Predator novel? A Jeff VanderMeer Predator novel, baby! This joint is called South China Sea and we have 5 copies that will be signed by Jeff and not only that - as announced in the BookSpot Beat - all winners will get a free Predator figurine!

- Sandra reminds us she’s the talent and we are the observers by allowing us to present two of her books that will be signed by her! What we have are What Burns Within and Frailty of the Flesh the first two books on her Nolan, Hart & Tain series for you crime/mystery fans. From the blurbage, lots of dope writers dig her work! We also have an excerpt of What Burns Within in our 4th issue of Heliotrope - so sample then enter!

I want to thank Jeff VanderMeer and Dark Horse; Tor and Brand Sanderson, Dark Sword Miniatures, Sandra Ruttan and Dorchester; Del-Rey and Matthew Stover for allowing BookSpot Central to present these at our venue and to our readers!

Please be sure to visit our contest page to be up to date with all current contests hosted at BookSpot Central. We are adding new loot constantly!

Damn, who does what we do on the weekly? NOBODY! Big thanks to all our contributors - the BSC is back on track!

-Coming up via Tomio!:

At least 3 interviews relatively soon of the ‘On the Spot’ variety - so back to comprehensive goodness - though one of them may not be soon as l’d like. I’m going to have to send my Hand to handle that sooner or later!

I’ve got a few make-up reviews coming up and one of a newer book!

At least one more exclusive this week!

Sweet new feature coming at BookSpot Central!

More contests!

I got this damn thing on lock - be on the look out and thanks to all for reading!

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