…or should. We finally started the mare who has been waiting ‘Way Too Long, and it was the kind of experience that you really want to have, especially when you’re the sacrificial monkey. The Hollywood illusion of the badass cowboy … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2010
As I’ve said before, I don’t know why I ended up continually discussing evolution in this venue. But it’s fun so I’ll continue. One of the interesting problems in evolution is capturing the change from one species to another. A … Continue reading
One criticism often levelled at writers is that we don’t get our villains right. They’re too evil – with not a single redeeming feature – or not evil enough. Or their motivation’s all wrong, or they’re a stereotype, or just … Continue reading
Today, let us discuss Trends. Shortly after I published my first book (a Regency romance), the first wave of the Big Romance Boom hit. Suddenly every publisher and his aunt Cressida was putting out a profusion of romances, from Regencies … Continue reading
BVC author Sarah Zettel’s original novella, “The Persistence of Souls,” has been nominated for this year’s Sidewise Award for best alternate history. The winners will be announced this afternoon at ReConStruction, the North American Science Fiction Convention being held this … Continue reading
Okay, we at Book View Cafe are about to start a new series of blog posts here called Spirits of Place scheduled to run on Fridays. I thought, what better way to kick this off than with a piece of … Continue reading
I had a wonderful experience this past weekend and want to share some great information I got with everybody. Debut novelist Jill S. Alexander and her agent Michael Bourret gave a fantastic sendoff to the educational part of this summer’s … Continue reading
The million word myth has been attributed to Henry James, Larry Niven, Virgil, virtually every well known author you can think of. Mumblty mumble years ago (my gosh was it 20?) I heard this as “You have to write a … Continue reading
Over on the SFWA Blog, Cat Rambo did an intriguing piece about the future of electronic publishing in which she made the following provocative observation: Any debate about the current struggle between electronic and traditional print publishing begins with this … Continue reading
So I’m tweeting along, minding my own business, when up pops a very nice tweet from @glecharles about how Book View Café is getting epublishing right. How wonderful! And weird. Who @glecharles is, I can’t remember. I’ve always enjoyed his … Continue reading