This blog post is included in: No Time to Spare Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler December 5, 2017 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Some of you may remember that, barely one month ago, Western Europe was on the brink of collapse. Not the economy this time but drought – the worst since 1976. Reservoirs were less than half full, rivers were drying up, … Continue reading
by Sue Lange I survived the shoot and I had fun, but I have to say I’m glad it’s over. I’m exhausted, drained, worn out, bereft, and confused. I mean that in a good way, of course. To be honest, … Continue reading
I have my indie backlist books distributed to Sony, iBooks, Kobo, etc. through Smashwords.com. So I keep up with what Mark Coker, CEO of Smashwords, has to say about the marketplace. Today, I’m sharing some VID (very important data). … Continue reading
by Phyllis Irene Radford This episode deals with loose threads and nit picking. But they are issues that crop up frequently today. Now we come to what we would call infrastructure, roads and bridges and such. These vital improvements keep … Continue reading
(I’m sharing some posts my father did when he blogged for a couple of years. His blog was called “I Heard It at the Icehouse.” In the introduction, he explained than an icehouse “had a bar, served beer, and had … Continue reading
I deal with religion, magic, faith, or some sort of spiritual belief system in most of my books and quite a few of my short stories. If not the main thread, these form at least a subtle part of the … Continue reading
(A slightly different version of this post originally appeared at Hahví.net) I like to read adventure novels. Science fiction, fantasy, historical: I enjoy them all. The important thing for me is a good, meaningful story, which by definition requires well-drawn, … Continue reading
Even after fifteen years of writing novels, having a new book come out gives me butterflies in the stomach. Eternal is a young adult fantasy, a sequel to Immortal which came out about a year ago from BVC. It was … Continue reading
by Phyllis Irene Radford I had a book come out today here on The Book View Café. Guardian of the Promise, Merlin’s Descendants #4 by Irene Radford. In many ways this was my favorite of the 5 book series. Well, … Continue reading