Laura Anne Gilman is a former book editor who went to the dark side of full-time writing in 2003. Her latest series, the multiply-award-nominated “The Devil’s West,” is published by Saga Press/Simon & Schuster. Previous novel credits include ten Cosa Nostradamus books (the “Retrievers” and “PSI” series), the Nebula-nominated The Vineart War trilogy, and the “Portals” duology, Heart of Briar and Soul of Fire, as well as the short story collection DARKLY HUMAN.
Wearing her editorial hat, she is the author of Practical Meerkat’s 52 Bits of Useful Info for the Young (and Old) Writer, available through the Book View Café Ebookstore.
Laura Anne also wrote mysteries under the name L A Kornetsky, and isn’t quite sure how many short stories and novellas she’s had published — more than 30, less than 50 (number subject to increase).
She lives outside Seattle, Washington, where she also runs d.y.m.k. productions, an editorial services company, and manages the tasting room for a local winery.
A Sylvan Investigations File (book 1)
by Laura Anne Gilman
$3.50 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-270-9
The person you pass on the street…may not be human.
They are known as the fatae, the various non-human species that make up the Cosa Nostradamus, the magic-using community. And they could be your neighbors, your teachers, your fellow commuters. Your local PI.
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A Lands Vin Novella
by Laura Anne Gilman
$2.50 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-177-1
Centuries before the Vineart War, massive sea-serpents roamed the seas, endangering the lives of all who sailed there. Only the greatest magic could keep them in check, and protect the coastlines from their depredations. And then…they disappeared. Legend credited Master Vineart Bradhai, and called him a hero.
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by Laura Anne Gilman
$3.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-748-3
A BVC Original
Visit an American West that never was, but could have been…
A woman in search of her fate, a people looking for a new place to call home, a young girl about to become more than she could ever dream, a magical creature trapped between what Is and what Will Be…
These stories and more welcome you to the Territory, where little is as it seems and everything is what we make of it.
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A Sylvan Invesigations File (book 2)
by Laura Anne Gilman
$3.50 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-273-0
The person you pass on the street…may not be human.
They are known as the fatae, the various non-human species that make up the Cosa Nostradamus, the magic-using community. And they could be your neighbors, your teachers, your fellow commuters. Your local PI.
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by Laura Anne Gilman
$2.99 (Story Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-650-9
A BVC Original
Alien landscapes. Run-down pool halls. Modern kitchens. Ghost-ridden memorials. There are shadows everywhere, housing the dark things that make us human.
Love. Hate. Fear. Hope.
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A Sylvan Investigations File (book 3)
by Laura Anne Gilman
$3.50 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-564-9
A BVC Original
Danny Hendrickson – ex-cop turned PI – and his partner Ellen could be any low-rent private investigators trying to make a difference, and a living, in New York City.
Except Danny’s father was a faun, and Ellen is a storm-seer.
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A Sylvan Investigations File
by Laura Anne Gilman
$3.50 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-597-7
A BVC Original
Danny Hendrickson — ex-cop turned PI — and his partner Ellen could be any low-rent private investigators trying to make a difference, and a living, in New York City.
Except Danny’s father was a faun, and Ellen is a storm-seer.
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Dragon Virus
by Laura Anne Gilman
$2.99 (story collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-178-8
“Laura Anne Gilman makes you care. You care about her characters and their choices; you care about what’s happening to their world.”
—Walter Jon Williams
It began soon after the Millennium. Reports of newborns with strange malformations, too weak to live…caused by a single genetic mutation. Or, as the press quickly dubbed it, the Dragon Virus. Scientists predicted that it was an evolutionary dead end; that the mutation would burn itself out quickly; that it was nothing to be worried about.
They were wrong.
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by Laura Anne Gilman
$2.99 (Non-Fiction)
ISBN 978-1-61138-151-1
Writing is a craft. Publishing is a business. Today’s world requires you to understand both.
A year’s worth of first-hand advice from the popular “Practical Meerkat” series, including:
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Tales Newly Twisted
Edited by Deborah J. Ross and Phyllis Irene Radford
$4.99 (Anthology) ISBN 978-1-61138-155-9
Not your grandmother’s fairy tales…
From the far-ranging imaginations of Book View Café authors comes this delirious collection of classic tales newly twisted into dark, dangerous, and occasionally hilarious re-tellings. From the golden isles of Greece to the frozen north, from fairytale castles to urban slums, join us on an unforgettable journey!
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Advice for Writers from the Authors
at Book View Café
edited by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff & Pati Nagle
$4.99 (Anthology) ISBN 978-0-98284-403-8
“Check any bookstore and you’ll find a host of titles on writing. Some are good, some not so good. Every author has his or her own strengths and weaknesses. But in Brewing Fine Fiction; Advice For Writers From the Bookview Café, you get a smorgasbord of professional advice and expertise. From the plausibility of fantasy, by Ursula LeGuin, to Deborah Ross’s comments on reviews, you’ll find every facet of the craft and writing life covered. For the wealth of information, experience, and diversity, all under one cover, you can’t beat it.” — Mary Rosenblum, Longridge Writers Group Instructor
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The Wisdom of Book View Café
edited by Phyllis Irene Radford
$0.99 (Anthology) ISBN 978-1-61138-087-3
With a dash of humor, Book View Café presents a review of the surest and fastest ways to bring your writing career to a screeching halt.
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