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Mark Charan Newton interview
This Q&A should have seen the light last spring when Nights of Villjamur ( Canada , USA , Europe ) was published. Unfortunately, I was way too busy to conduct an interview at the time. Better late than never, right!?! Special thanks to Graeme Flory from ...
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Jeff Somers contest winners
These lucky guys and gals will each receive a set of the mass market paperback edition of The Electric Church ( Canada , USA , Europe ) and The Digital Plague ( Canada , USA , Europe ), compliments of the nice folks at Orbit. The winners are: - Jeff Madill, from London, Ontario, Canada - Lisa ...
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'Tis the Season Giveaway: Del Rey & Bantam Spectra
This is our second Holiday mega-giveaway, and it's another good one! Del Rey and Bantam Spectra teamed up for this contest to offer plenty of cool stuff! Their prize pack includes: - A signed copy of China Mieville’s The City & the City ( Canada , USA , Europe ) - A signed copy of John ...
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NFL SHOWDOWN: GRRM vs Pat (Week 11)
Washington Redskins: 6 vs Dallas Cowboys: 7 Atlanta Falcons: 31 vs New York Giants: 34 Christ, I thought the G-Men would lose again when the game went to overtime. And the Cowboys were atrocious against the Redskins. Thank God they were able to come out on top. But with the Eagles beating ...
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Amazon's Scifi Extravaganza
The good news: You can save up to 70% on a panoply of SFF DVDs and Blu-ray discs. The bad news: The sale ends today. Just found out this morning. . .:-( So head on out there is you want to save a bundle on blockbusters like the Star Wars, the Harry Potter, and the Batman movies. The ...
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Cover art for Steven Erikson's CRACK'D POT TRAIL
This one looks like it's going to be another good novella!=) Here's the blurb: It is an undeniable truth: give evil a name and everyone's happy. Give it two names and . . . why, they're even happier. The intrepid necromancers Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, scourges of civilization, ...
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Cover art for Jacqueline Carey's NAAMAH'S CURSE
This one will hit the shelves next spring! Here's the blurb: Far from the land of her birth, Moirin sets out across Tatar territory to find Bao, the proud and virile Ch'in fighter who holds the missing half of her diadh-anam, the divine soul-spark of her mother's people. After a long ...
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Coming attractions
Here's what I have on tap for you for the rest of 2009. Book Reviews I've read Alastair Reynolds' excellent Thousandth Night & Minla's Flowers ( Canada , USA , Europe , and Subpress ), and I'm almost done with Suicide Kings , the latest Wild Cards novel edited by George R. R. Martin and ...
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Submit your question for a Brandon Sanderson interview
Okay, so it's been ages since I've invited fans to submit their questions via the Hotlist. Mainly because the site has grown immensely since the last time I extended such an invitation. But since some interesting questions do see the light when I post something like this on message boards, ...
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This week's New York Times Bestsellers (November 17th)
In hardcover: Brandon Sanderson and Robert Jordan's The Gathering Storm is down three spots, finishing its second week on the NYT list at number 4. For more info about this title: Canada , USA , Europe . Charlaine Harris' A Touch of Dead is down four positions, ending its fifth week on the ...
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New Poll
The haters and the detractors bitching about GRRM overseeing the production of the pilot for the HBO AGOT TV series was the inspiration behind this silly survey. . . Let's see how the vote goes!;-)
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A bit of humor
Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today! Chippendales for you ladies! Thanks to Erica for sending this along. I suspect that she is one of those clowns having fun with the Yeard on Westeros. . . I laughed so hard I had coffee coming out of my nose! That hurts! So without further ado, on with the ...
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Howl's Moving Castle
When I first sat down with Émilie to talk about Japanese animated features last September, to my dismay I realized that I had seen one of Hayao Miyazaki's masterpieces. It was also Émilie's favorite Miyazaki film. Indeed, in the summer of 2005, my good friend Géraldine (who went to film ...
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Musical Interlude
You wanted the best and you got the best! The hottest band in the world: KISS!!!=) Ah, simply one of the best rock 'n roll songs ever!
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Mark Charan Newton on SFF artwork
I recently posted the cover art for the UK paperback edition of Newton's Nights of Villjamur ( Canada , USA , Europe ). Considering the lack of reaction, I reckon that most of you didn't have a problem with this new cover. On the other hand, elsewhere the comments have been flying, especially ...
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'Tis the Season Giveaway: Subterranean Press
With the Holidays just around the corner, I invited publishers to come up with special prize packs for the biggest giveaways of the year. In the next couple of weeks, you'll see similar contests cropping up, all of them a mix of autographed copies, bestselling titles, and Advance Reading ...
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Genre fiction and Tie-in Fiction – a conversation between Mark Charan Newton and Dan Abnett
SFF authors Mark Charan Newton and Dan Abnett had a conversation about tie-in fiction, work for hire, and original fiction, the stigmas associated, and why such snobbery only seems to exist in genre fiction. Newton hopes that they can change people’s opinions about what seems to be the black ...
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The Golden City
The enigmatic author John Twelve Hawks became a hit with the release of the international bestseller The Traveler ( Canada , USA , Europe ) and its sequel, The Dark River ( Canada , USA , Europe ). Having enjoyed both dystopian installments, I was looking forward to discovering how the author ...
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Quote of the Day
Shame on me for writing such beloved, best-selling books ! - ROBERT STANEK, in a recent blog post. WTF????????? In case you're wondering, Robert Stanek is the writer who photoshopped himself in a picture with Brian Jacques. What went wrong? Well, the guy forgot to put his legs in the pic. . . ...
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Steven Erikson contest winners!
Thanks to the kind folks at Transworld, these five winners will get their hands on the 10th anniversary edition of Steven Erikson's Gardens of the Moon . For more info about this title: Canada , USA , Europe . The winners are: - Matthew Hodgetts, from Montréal, Québec, Canada - Samuel ...
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