The Bodhisattva

Vylar contacted me today and let me know that her story Galatea can be enjoyed the old fashioned way - somebody reading for you!  Galatea was first published in Heliotrope#2 by some really awesome people and can be read here in its original, vintage - dare  I say - classic format (it’s really going to [...]

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*Cracks open window and  a eyes silly boy and girl dropping bread crumbs in his yard and driveway - goes to warm up oven*
Time for this week’s recap of all things FBS!
-Exclusives:
- We have 3 exclusive sample chapters to Tobias Buckell’s forthcoming Sly Mongoose from Tor. This will be the third novel in a interconnected [...]

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*opens newly tinted windows*
Yes, tint people, because we are pimpin’ this week. Anyway here is a summary of what has happened this week at the  ‘bookspot and all our fiefdoms given to
-Heliotrope:
We named out final contributor to our forthcoming fall issue and it’s the legendary Alan Moore. Big time thanks to Chris Staros who has [...]

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Heliotrope is proud to announce it’s latest and last contributor to our forthcoming issue. To follow in the tradition of the previous announcement a fictional name is given here for your trivia nerds and the official straight-forward announcement. Here it is:
Detective Wanda Synaesthesia Jackson
Get the scoop at Heliotrope.
He’s possibly responsible for more great fiction [...]

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Table of Contents is a bit farther off, but over at Heliotrope I just dropped the list of contributors for our next issue. The official, no-fun list that is! Test your Speculative Fiction knowledge by finding out via some of their fictional creations:
The Rev
Metatron
Fat Charlie
Don Entrerosca
Erevis
Roxanne Bonaventure
Luther Arkwright
Ayako
Shadrach
 Or just go to Heliotrope and check out the list!

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Just wanted to let people know Heliotrope that the latest issue has its first fiction contribution announced.
- The FSB guy

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Just wanted to point to a small update at the Heliotrope site addressing some common issues I have been seeing.
This is more of a read for potential contributors/submitters, not an announcement regarding content.
Helio Stuff

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Been a bit busy lately with the holidays and moving, but apparently Damon has been doing his best Dave impression and remodeled what was a very stock Heliotrope site originally.
Because of being busy, I’m probably a month and half behind getting back to people (though I started cutting through the pile last week) so please [...]

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Please go check it out!

The final table of contents looks like this (more added):
Fiction:
Red-Haired Man in a Sweater by Brendan Connell
Moon at the Starry Diner by Tina Connolly
He Angles, She Refracts by Rob Vagle
Poetry:
The Witch by Theodora Goss
Articles/Columns:
The Anatomy of “Sleep” by Jeffrey Ford
Plus ca Change by Michael Moorcock
The Shadow Cabinet by Jeff Vandermeer
Previews/Exclusive Excerpts:
Once [...]

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I just posted the table of contents for the next issue of Heliotrope.
I had this whole write-up on it I was going to post, but then I realized I was retyping my editorial and I’m just not creative enough to write about something twice and have something original to say. This would be a surprise [...]

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First, D & D (Damon and Dave) did a kicks ass job on the delivery of this issue. People asked for HTML - you got it now! Issue is kind of bad ass.
I want to thank the contributors:
A Godmother’s Gift by January Mortimer
They Play in the Palace of My Dreaming by Gerald Houarner
Galatea by [...]

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…and
David Soyka reviews the first issue (Issue#2 will be out in January) of Heliotrope at Black Gate.
It’s not everyday that you get your forum sig quoted (which I boosted from an interview of M. John Harrison) - and I’m simple enough for this to make my day.
Good stuff!

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Very Cool, Samantha Henderson dropped me a line to let me know a couple of Heliotrope reviews are out. One positive, one negative, both very much appreciated. Thanks to IROSF and Tangent, two frequent E-stops of mine, and specifically to Lois Tilton and Yael Artom the reviewers.
Note, these are reviews of the short [...]

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Damon tells me the print versions of Heliotrope are ready to go and, “that they look hot.” I haven’t seen them myself, but I’ll take his word for it (although he doesn’t like Robotech so his understanding of what is hot may be questionable). Contributors should expect their copy soon and others can [...]

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I am in the middle of doing a couple of reviews and putting together a couple of interviews and I have a fresh batch of books came in that have been thumbing through that along with some other things have my thoughts swirling:\par
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- Introductions should be banned! Why? I got this beauty of [...]

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