A Virtual Anthology: Jeffrey Ford & Ian R. MacLeod – BSC Flashback
Sunday usually means we put up a BSC Flashback, and today we are going back to where we went last week, just flipping some pages. Last week we talked Jeff Vandermeer and Shadow Cabinets. This week we go to the Virtual Anthology, an idea by top shelf author Jeffrey Ford that I first saw over [...]
Tomio’s Want List – October Dark by David Herter
We don’t run a ton of press releases because A. I tend to find them boring and B. Where do you stop? C. You get to a point where there has to be a paper exchange to post that information. Sometimes though something catches our eye, and seemingly for the most trivial of reasons.
For these occasions there’s Tomio’s Want List….
Contest – The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant & The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford (2 sets!)
Slacking on contests a bit because we’ve been making some moves over here at BSC! Frankly it’s the first feature that gets cut when site-time becomes an issue, but I’m back today with an opportunity for two people to win two collections, check that; two of the very best collections that have been put out over the last several years.
Last week I mentioned that Jeffrey Ford’s The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant and The Empire of Ice Cream. . .
Golden Gryphon’s Jeffrey Ford TPBs are now available!
I got an email from Golden Gryphon Press today announcing that the TPB versions of Jeffrey Ford’s magnificent first two collections are now available, and sporting covers by John Tomio-wants-a-sketch Picacio!
We are talking The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant and the The Empire of Ice Cream . . .
Short Fiction Round Table: The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford
Short Fiction Round Table: Best American Fantasy 2008
The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford
News – Omnivoracious Celebrates The Well-Built City
I was given a heads up yesterday that today Ominvoracious would be highlighting Jeffrey Ford’s Well-Built City trilogy in 3-parts starting today. Each part will focus on each book and today they look at the World Fantasy Award winning The Physiognomy. So go check out Jeff VanderMeer chat it up with Jeffrey Ford on [...]
Contest – The Well-Built City Trilogy by Jeffrey Ford (two sets!)
This is how we kick off a new week at BookSpotCentral! What we have here is a chance for two lucky winners to come away with the entire Well-Built City trilogy by the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Edgar Allan Poe Award winning author Jeffrey Ford. He’s one of the handful of writers that [...]
News – Jeffrey Ford’s Well-Built Trilogy rereleased and available now!
Golden Gryphon Books has republished The Well-Built Trilogy by Jeffrey Ford in trade paperback with all new covers by John Picacio and they are now available. Here is the statement by the publisher: Jeffrey Ford’s World Fantasy Award-winner The Physiognomy introduces Cley, master of Physiognomy, the pseudo-science of judging a person by his physical features, [...]
Book Review – The Shadow Year
Author: Jeffrey Ford Cover Artist: Dan Burn-Forti Publisher: William Morrow Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2008 Almost two years ago when I reviewed Ford’s collection The Empire of Ice Cream for FantasyBookSpot, I noted that Botch Town was my favorite of the bunch. It was something of a mystery story meshed with a coming of age [...]
Exclusive – The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford (1st and 2nd Chapter)
I left the Well-Built City at precisely 4:00 in the afternoon of an autumn day. The sky was dark, and the wind was blowing when the coach pulled up in front of my quarters. The horses reared against a particularly fierce gale and my papers—describing the case that had been assigned to me no more [...]
Book Review – The Empire of Ice Cream
Author: Jeffrey Ford Cover Artist: John Picacio Publisher: Golden Gryphon Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: April 2006 The Empire of Ice Cream represents Ford’s second collection of short stories, and if you liked the first, no doubt you will enjoy this one as well. Not because they’re the same kind of stories but because they represent [...]
Book Review – The Girl in the Glass
Author: Jeffrey Ford Cover Artist: Nicola Ferguson Publisher: Voyager Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2005 For 2005, THE GIRL IN THE GLASS won the Edgar award for Best Paperback Original from the Mystery Writers of America. You might think a crime-writing award a strange one for Jeffrey Ford to receive if you’ve principally considered him an [...]
