The winter holiday season has always seemed to me to be a good time to strike out beyond my usual reading preferences. Maybe that’s a relic from the childhood years when adult relatives would give me the books they thought … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2013
A Feral Darkness by Doranna Durgin Suspense, romance, and a Celtic dog bundled into a contemporary fantasy setting. As a child, dog-loving Brenna Fallon naívely invokes an ancient Celtic deity to save her beloved hound–and inadvertently anchors the new-found power … Continue reading
Did Santa forget to bring you books for Christmas? Or did you get a new e-reader and need to stock up on e-books? Book View Cafe can help with our Boxing Week Sale — with over 100 e-books at half … Continue reading
Writer Brenda W. Clough has stitched together an exotic quilt of a career and a life. She’s written classic fantasy, fantasy humor, fantasy for children, science fiction, steampunk, and even contemporary mystery. Recent novels include Speak to Our Desires, an unusual murder mystery that takes place in 1969 New York City, and Revise the World, a science fiction tale of time travel, FTL drives, and resurrected Antarctic explorers. Her latest work from Book View Cafe is the re-release of How Like a God, where she asks the question, “Does absolute power corrupt absolutely?” A man on the edge is about to find out.
Continue readingBetween now and the end of February, I have six short story assignments rolling in, for a workshop that I’m taking. I’ve written two short stories, each about 5000 words, in the last few days. I have one more to … Continue reading
One of my favorite books of 2013 appeared quietly on the scene, an indie publication that pretty much had to go indie, as fitting it neatly into a marketing niche would be tough. I loved Pen Pal, by Francesca Forrest, … Continue reading
You’re here, at Book View Café. That means that you love great books, at great prices, written by great authors. But do you really know about Book View Café? Do you understand who we are, how we started, how we … Continue reading
(This post was originally published at the author’s website, Hahvi.net.) Until recently, I’d never heard of the movie Moon, directed by Duncan Jones and released in 2009, but over the past year I saw it mentioned several times in social … Continue reading
Butch Hancock said that at the end of one his shows at the Cactus Cafe in Austin. I’ve been thinking about it ever since. And since love is one of the themes of the season — or should be, anyway … Continue reading
By Brenda W. Clough So it came out in 2007 — I was busy then. Only this month did I get a chance to see Enchanted, the Disney movie starring Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey and James Marsden. What a delightful … Continue reading