The Bodhisattva

Hey peeps! over at BookSpot Central I just put up an exclusive sample (the prologue) of the latest/forthcoming from Hal Duncan. This is from Escape From Hell! to be published by MonkeyBrain Books next month.

GO READ THE EXCERPT NOW!
Hal Duncan is the World Fantasy, BFS, Locus and Crawford award nominated author of Vellum and [...]

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Holidays are no excuse for not bringing the thunder the next day - only the National Football League carries that kind of relevance (and possibly Gabrielle Anwar).
With that in mind over at BookSpot Central I just put up 10k word exclusive excerpt of Couch, the latest from Small Beer Press, by Benjamin Parzybok!

Couch was published [...]

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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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This is what I’m talking about right here.
Seriously, along with George R.R. Martin’s a A Dance with Dragons this is the book I’ve been anticipating the most for years. The blogosphere is full of situational hyperbole, but I’ve got this documented, baby! In January 2007 where I also mention it was on my list the [...]

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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!

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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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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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Another exclusive for you in the week of the BookSpotCentral relaunch!

We have the  first chapter of Eric Brown’s forthcoming Necropath, to be published by Solaris Books later this year!
Synopsis:
Bengal Station: an exotic spaceport that dominates the ocean between India and Burma. Jaded telepath, Jeff Vaughan, is employed by the spaceport authorities to monitor incoming craft [...]

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Okay folks, got a new exclusive sample for you that I jsut put up at BookSpotCentral.com. Today we have the first two chapters of Mark Teppo’s Lightbreaker for you to sample! Subtitled as The First Book of the Codex of Souls, this is scheduled to be published by Night Shade Books in Ocotber of 2008.  [...]

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I just put up another exclusive for you at FBS/BSC!  This is the first chapter of the forthcoming After the Downfall by Harry Turtledove. After the Downfall will be published by Night Shade Books in September.
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I want to thank Night Shade Books for bringing samples of their line for us to present.
Enjoy and [...]

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Damon doing interviews (or something like an interview) and me pulling excerpts, no wonder why we aren’t done with the new site! Today I have another exclusive excerpt,  a chapter from Ekaterina Sedia’s The Secret History of Moscow, a chapter she described as being as nice a sample as you can find being a bit [...]

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*opens window for fresh air as Mockra always gives him a headache*
Alright peeps, it’s that time again to take a look at the week of bookspot that was!  I’m going to be a little ghost this week and next here as we work on the new site design. We are in the grunt stages of [...]

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Okay fellas, got another hot exclusive for you. This is an exclusive excerpt from Unclean Spirits by M.L.N. Hanover, the first book in The Black Sun’s Daughter sequence. Most of you know the author better as Daniel Abraham, author of the sweet epic fantasy series from Tor, The Long Price Quartet (which we also have [...]

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Okay another chance to read some short fiction for you! What we have here is Steve Berman’s Tearjerker.  It was originally published in the Paper Cities anthology edited by Ekaterina Sedia and will also be included in Berman’s forthcoming Second Thoughts.
Check it out here!
Berman has been a Andre Norton Award Finalist and had a story [...]

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*opens window and begins to swap stories with Leodora and the little girl from the Night Garden passing around a bottle of the finest wine from the Arbor*
Another look at the week of ‘bookspot that was! Another week goes by and still no justice for your host, as no new design news to announce. Apparently [...]

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Over at the ‘bookspot I just posted an excerpt of Michael Jasper’s forthcoming A Gathering of Doorways. We have the prologue and first chapter that’s scheduled to be published in October. Here are some early opinions:
“A strong and compulsively readable first novel about family and friends and the horrors, ordinary and not so ordinary, that [...]

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