The Bodhisattva

I just put up my review of Catherynne M. Valente’s latest, the first part in her two-book Orphan’s Tales sequence entitled In the Night Garden at Fantasybookspot.com. I just love reading Cat’s books - she is the quintessential example of an author whose books cannot be summed up by accompanying synopsis. What she brings [...]

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Just kind of an all purpose post.

First, over at FBS Brian just announced a new contest for fans of mystery and this one apparently is on the humor tip* as well, written by Troy Cook and entitled 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers, he also recently announced the winner of a previous contest [...]

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I finished reading Valente’s (review on the way) Orphan’s Tales: In the Midnight Garden and the winner is in for a treat - there is some teriffic simultaneous storytellings (plural) going on here that even if you get lost in its weave, you enjoy finding your back. I just announced the winner of a [...]

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This is what I’m talking about! Opportunities to introduce yourself to the most creative writers in the field for free! What we have here is a chance to win Catherynne M. Valente’s Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden signed by Valente. We are talking about this bad boy:

EDIT - Kaluta did not [...]

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