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The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan – review

If you have ever felt like women are difficult to understand, reading a Caitlin R. Kiernan book isn’t going to help you unravel that mystery any time soon.  One of the things that I have always liked...

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Still Life with Shape-shifter by Sharon Shinn – review

Still Life with Shape-shifter is a loose sequel to last fall’s The Shape of Desire.  It expands on the world and includes some of the characters from Shape but has different main characters.  The...

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Cover Art Debuted For The Garden Of Stones

The cover art for the upcoming fantasy novel The Garden of Stones by Australian novelist Mark Barnes which comes out May 21, 2013. The novel is one that lovers of the fantasy genre will immediately...

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What are you reading this week?

I just got my copy of Imager’s Batallion, the 6th book in L. E. Modesitt’s series. The package might as well have come with a birthday card from Tor. Happy Moff Elena, indeed! I also picked up a copy...

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Tesseracts Sixteen (Parnassus Unbound) ed. by Mark Leslie – Review

Looking for a veritable banquet of the finest Canadian speculative fiction? Look no further than Tesseracts Sixteen (Parnassus Unbound) edited by Mark Leslie. Each of the previous anthologies have had...

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Scent of Magic by Maria V. Snyder – review

Publisher’s Description: As the last Healer in the Fifteen Realms, Avry of Kazan is in a unique position: in the minds of friends and foes alike, she no longer exists. Despite her need to prevent the...

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A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan – review

Publisher’s Description: You, dear reader, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart—no more so than the study of dragons itself. But such study offers rewards beyond compare: to...

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The Literary World of Pulp Adventure (And Dragons) With Marie Brennan – Guest...

All Art Courtesy of Todd Lockwood Ahhh, pulp adventure. It’s so fun, and yet such a mess. It was never a respected corner of publishing, even when respectable authors were working in it. The whole idea...

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Night of the Swarm by Robert V.S. Redick – review

Publisher’s Description: The mighty centuries old ship, Chathrand is long gone . . . At the centre of an infernal forest there is clearing. Above it looms a seven hundred foot tall fragment of a vast...

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Gillian Philip’s FIREBRAND – book trailer

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Prized by Caragh O’Brien – review

Growing up all too often means picking your battles.  As you grow up and develop your own system of values, you choose the things that are important to you based on your experiences with the people...

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Gillian Philip – FIREBRAND – interview

Bookspotcentral.com is very pleased to bring in author Gillian Philip for a fireside chat about her newest book, Firebrand, out today in the U.S.  We talk about the inspiration for the book, characters...

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Geek Girl’s Fictional Junk Food-o-Rama –“The Enormous Egg”

When I was growing up, there wasn’t a local bookstore anywhere close by.  I depended primarily on the racks of paperbacks in the grocery store and the local pharmacy both for comic books and regular...

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Trickster by Jeff Somers – review

Publisher’s Description: Magic uses blood—a lot of it. The more that’s used, the more powerful the effect, so mages find “volunteers” to fuel their spells. Lem, however, is different. Long ago he set...

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Brandon Sanderson’s Way of Kings sequel will be WORDS OF RADIANCE

A bit late with this, but worth noting all the same! Brandon Sanderson’s Way of Kings has a sequel coming out this November from Tor, and they just released the title: Words of Radiance. Included with...

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Book Bomb Tomorrow for Dave Farland’s Son

If you were on any politician’s mailing list in the last election cycle, you probably got an email about a “money bomb” wherein they sought to get media attention by raising a lot of money in short,...

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And the Winner Is – 7th Annual Book Tournament Finals Results!

Fair gentlefolk, the moment is nigh when our 7th annual book tournament will be crowned.  The competitors were rousted. The crowds were wild. The results were at no point certain, the lead changing...

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Imager’s Battalion by L.E. Modesitt Jr. – review

  Publisher’s Description: Quaeryt, now holding the rank of subcommander in the Telaryn army of Lord Bhayar, leads history’s firs imager fighting force into a retaliatory war against the hostile nation...

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The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett – review

Publisher’s Description: Sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she’s a criminal. No, she’s a Nightmare. Literally. Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell...

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Trapped by Kevin Hearne – review

Publisher’s Description: After twelve years of secret training, Atticus O’Sullivan is finally ready to bind his apprentice, Granuaile, to the earth and double the number of Druids in the world. But on...

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