Category Archives: Humor

Nostalgia Vacations and Indoor Volcanoes

There was another report this week about the rise in the traditional British holiday. Part of this is down to economics – ever since the financial melt down of 2008 people have had less money to spend on overseas holidays … Continue reading


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BVC Announces How Possession Can Help You Lose Weight by Chris Dolley

Ho Possession Can Help You Lose Weight

“I lost so much weight I could float above my bed!” – Lida Blair The hilarious new spoof diet book from New York Times bestselling author, Chris Dolley. It’s a fun, quick read (about one hour) covering everything from ‘the … Continue reading


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The Body in the Flowerbed

Local Rustics and Pirates (I'm on the left) sing and dance for Arny

When your first publicity stunt pushes the General Election result off the front page, what do you do for an encore? This was a question I was asking myself in 1975 when Plymouth Rag Week came around again. After all, … Continue reading


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BVC Announces Fools Paradise by Jennifer Stevenson

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“If I drown, you’ll explain to the cops, right?”

“I won’t let you drown, Bobbyjay,” she said in a small voice.

With a deep breath and a determined expression, he dove headfirst through the moon roof. Water and fish poured out around his body. Daisy squeezed her hands together. His arm and shoulder and then his face appeared at the side window of the Porsche, squishing fish against the glass. She heard his elbow bump on the window. Then the window began to leak water from the top, and water began pouring out of a growing slit as the window opened, and fish slithered past in a silvery flood, and then, just as she was worrying that she wasn’t strong enough to haul his big, heavy body free, his legs thrashed, and he withdrew. A nasty squeak sounded as he slid back out of the moon roof, and then he rolled over on his back and slid, gasping, to the ground. Continue reading


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BVC Announces King Of Hearts by Jennifer Stevenson

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A sexy, funny duel of wills and wits between a small town preacher’s daughter and a blue-collar prince of the blood. Continue reading


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Possession, Humour and Special Offers

How POSSESSION Can Help You LOSE Weight

A short post this week as I’m working hard to finish my spoof diet book, How POSSESSION Can Help You LOSE Weight. It may only be a 10k word story but it’s 10k words of humour, and humour is something … Continue reading


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BVC German Editions

Französisch mit Spickzettel

It’s a mark of how far Book View Café has come over the past four years that we’re now releasing our second German language edition. Sherwood Smith’s Crown Duel was the first – Kronenduell came out a few months back. … Continue reading


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David D. Levine reads “Letter to the Editor” on Tales to Terrify

You can now hear BVC member David D. Levine reading his story “Letter to the Editor” from The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination (featured here during Mad Scientist Week) on the latest Tales to Terrify podcast: http://talestoterrify.com/tales-to-terrify-show-no-65-joe-r-lansdale-david-d-levine/


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Sex demons: who’s the boss?

I’m in love, a shark is eating me, I wonder if I can convince it to spit up my heart at her feet on the beach. Continue reading


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How POSSESSION Can Help You LOSE Weight

How Possession Can Help You LOSE Weight

Brick Crapper M.D’s second book from Book View Café is the revolutionary How POSSESSION Can Help You LOSE Weight. It will be published on May 5th and ARCs will be available through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers April batch. We’re very excited about … Continue reading


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