Always cool to see Heliotrope alumni putting out novels! Today BookSpot Central is pleased to offer a copy of Heaven’s Bones by Samantha Henderson! Ms. Henderson’s story, Honey Mouth, was the first ever story I bought for Heliotrope!

Heaven’s Bones was released last September by Wizards of the Coast!

Synopsis:

Angels of horror offered as a gift to life.

Dr. Sebastian Robarts is a man paralyzed by the fate of his adored wife, dead in childbirth, their only child with her. He searches for a way to build angels from women, a pastime known to Scotland Yard as murder. Robarts meets the Vistani seer named Trueblood, who becomes his assistant and leads him to the Antebellum-era domain of Riverbend, controlled by the sadistic Dr. Weldon, to create…

Topics: Heaven's Bones, Ravenloft, Samantha Henderson, Wizards of the Coast

Contests ending, people are sad, so we have to keep on bringing what’s hot to keep days bright and spirits high! Today at BookSpot Central I have five copies of the forthcoming novel from Holly Phillips, The Engine’s Child, to be published by Del Rey. A lot of people are starting to put together their best of 2008 lists and this is a novel that’s one of those 20-25 or so that I have to cut down to 10-15 for my portion of the BookSpot Central end of the year lists.

Holly Phillips wrote one of my favorite collections of the last few years with her In the Palace of Repose which was a finalist for both the World Fantasy and Crawford…

Topics: Del Rey, Holly Phillips, Random House, The Engine’s Child

The fourth week of Masterworks Monday is here! Dark Sword Miniatures and BookSpot Central join forces and presents George R.R. Martin’s Masterworks Collection! Twenty weeks, twenty figures, up to twenty winners of George R.R. Martin goodness! These are GRRM approved renditions of characters from his A Song of Ice and Fire series produced by the people hand-picked by the man himself. The winner of the third drawing for the Hound figure will be announced tomorrow - you still have time to enter!

Today it’s time for Jaime “The Kingslayer” Lannister! Tell the truth, Martin has made his story one of the most compelling in the latter novels!

Who is Dark Sword Miniatures?

Dark Sword Miniatures Inc. was founded with the single purpose of creating extremely…

Topics: A Song of Ice and Fire, Dark Sword Miniatures, George R.R. Martin, George R.R. Martin Masterworks, Masterworks Monday

It’s better to give than receive and BookSpot Central is back offering an opportunity for 5 people to take home the kick-off book to the Night Angel trilogy, The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks. You can read the BookSpot Central review of The Way of Shadows and interview with Weeks.

Synopsis:

For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city’s most accomplished artist.

For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he’s grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.

But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he…

Topics: Brent Weeks, The Night Angel Trilogy, The Way of Shadows

Down to only five current contests and one ending later today and we just can’t allow that to happen! Today I have for you one of the books I’m currently reading, Neal Stephenson’s Anathem. Stephenson is NY Times Best Selling author of the wonderful and monumental Baroque Cycle (all three novels won one of the major genre awards) as well as books like Snow Crash, Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon among others. Recently Anathem was included in the Amazon Editor’s Picks for best books of 2008.

Synopsis:

Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable - yet strangely inverted - world.

Fraa…

Topics: Anathem, Atlantic Books, Neal Stephenson

I get this feeling for a lot of readers - in some small way - their continued reading of Science Fiction stems from trying to find that book that impacted them when they picked up Ender’s Game. I’m looking forward to seeing if it will be pulled off by the man that brought us Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card, with his forthcoming Ender in Exile. Ender in Exile is being called the first true direct sequel to the aforementioned classic, and we have a signed copy to offer to our readers! Ender in Exile is scheduled to be released on November 11th!

Synopsis:

Orson Scott Card returns to his best-selling series with a new Ender novel.

At the close of Ender’s Game, Andrew Wiggin - called Ender…

Topics: Ender in Exile, Orson Scott Card, Tor