The Bodhisattva

Taking a break from the grunt part of the our forthcoming new redesign and no rest for me, instead I take 5 and announce a new contest for you lovers of short fiction.  Two winners will be walking away with a copy of Clockwork Phoenix edited by Mike Allen that includes stories from people like [...]

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Three of our contests recently ended so I got another one for the  ‘bookspot fam.  This is for a copy of one of my favorite SF writer’s latest, The Night Sessions, signed by the man - Ken MacLeod.  You may remember that we are also hosting the exclusive excerpt to this novel as well, which [...]

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Just wanted to say that I announced the winner of our contest for signed copies of Shadowbridge and Lord Tophet by Gregory Frost.
Check to see if you won!
I want to thank all those who entered an congratulate the winner as this is a sweet duology from Del Rey!
I will be announcing more contests soon and [...]

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Damon finally gets around to naming the winner of the signed copy of Jhegalla, the latest Vlad Tatos installment from Steven Brust over at HQ.
Thanks to all who participated, Tor, and Mr. Brust and congrats to the winner!
Please note that we still have three other active opportunities for free goodies going. They are as follows:
- [...]

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*opens window looks out into the swamp and asks Ben, “you didn’t even change his last name?”*
Okay folks, a weekly round-up all things bookspot! A rather busy week from our contributors as we continue the countdown to our site redesign and Heliotrope’s redesign as well!
-Exclusives:
- This week we were able to snag an excerpt from [...]

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This month the first novel-length story arc in Gregory Frost’s Shadowbridge setting comes to and end with the release of Lord Tophet - the follow-up to Shadowbridge, both published by Del Rey.  Here we have an opportunity for a winner to get the set signed by the author.

If one remembers I was really behind the [...]

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Okay people, time for a little something to brighten the weekend of those not at SDCC like me. What I have here is the perfect compliment to another active contest we are running, (a chance for 10 people to win Esslemont’s Return of the Crimson Guard) as it’s an opportunity for two ‘bookspoters to win [...]

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So Damon goes over my helmet and announces a contest of his own to which it will land on yours truly to properly present.
Here is a wonderful chance for all of you haven’t bought the first ten Vlad Tatos books to jump on with the eleventh! This time you will have a special treat however, [...]

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Just wanted to let you know I named the 5 winners of a copy of Project Moonbase a collection by the legendary Robert Heinlein published by Subterranean Press.

FIND OUT IF YOU WON!
Thanks to all who participated and congrats to the winners. I also want to thank Bill and Subterranean Press!
Don’t forget we are also currently [...]

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*Opens window and tells Benedict to keep his armies of the lawn*
A look at what’s going on at the ‘bookspot in the last week!
-Exclusives:
- We have the first 3 chapters to Turnskin by Nicole Kimberling from Blind Eye books. I’ve been enjoying another one of their books, Wicked Gentlemen (we have the first 3 chapters [...]

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Got another contest for you! This is a chance for 5 lucky citizens of the ‘bookspot community to win a copy of Project Moonbase, a collection by Robert Heinlein published by Subterranean Press.  Obviously, a legendary figure in Science Fiction and here is the gist on this project:
Project Moonbase contains the screenplay for the now [...]

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Some serious, significant Malazan history goes down in this novel  and here is a chance for ten lucky people to take one home slightly before the regular edition hits stands! On August 7, ten people walk away with Malazan goodness as fans of Malaz get one half (along with Erikson’s Toll of Hounds) of the [...]

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The three winners of a signed copy of Jake Lake’s Escapement have been announced over at the ‘bookspot! Congrats to the winners and thanks to all who participated. Big thanks to Jay Lake for this and I highly recommend his Mainspring to people. Winners: please contact me within one week. We have a problem with [...]

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Okay this time we have three copies of Jay Lake’s forthcoming Escapement, his sequel to Mainspring. These are all signed by Mr. Lake and the contest is open to all FBS members.

“This lively and thought-provoking sequel to 2007’s Mainspring expands Lake’s alternate 19th-century world of baroque politics and gothic clockwork. Paolina Barthes is a teenage [...]

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As I said in a previous post Damon was at the NYC Comic Con and before he got kicked out by the Empire for harlaning the Princess he was able to steal some con exclusive goods:

Signed books, comics, posters and magazines for the faithful!
If interested just say the word and you’re in!

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