(Picture from here.) It’s harvest time on our tiny, tiny farm. It was an interesting summer. A woodchuck found its way into the garden and it took some doing to get him out. The old fellow was too smart for … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2015
NOTE: I’ll continue my British Columbia journey next time, October 17 I just attended the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Ceremony 2015, right here in beautiful Bellingham, WA. It’s a book-business-oriented conference, focused on educating authors about tools and techniques … Continue reading
When I was young, I had dolls. I remember them, clearly – all of them. There were the pretty ones – a couple of blondes and my favorite, the little black-haired one with cute bangs and eyes that opened and … Continue reading
The latest edition of the Book View Cafe newsletter is out and chock full of new releases, specials, and the latest news. It also includes an introduction to our newest member, Cynthia Felice, whose novel Downtime has just been released … Continue reading
by Brenda W. Clough Google. Google every neologism. Every name. Every term you cannot define. You want examples? Oh, do I have examples for you! Unfortunate obscenity A classic, but possibly NSFW. It’s political! Another inadvertent obscenity. They meant well, … Continue reading
At the Chanticleer book awards this week, Book View Cafe author Sara Stamey won the Cygnus Speculative Fiction Award for her near-future thriller THE ARIADNE CONNECTION, and the Paranormal Mystery/Suspense Award for her Caribbean psychic suspense novel ISLANDS. (The ebook … Continue reading
My sweetheart and I went backpacking at Point Reyes National Seashore last week, which meant we went three days without any news of the world or contact with anyone who wasn’t also out hiking. Coming back to the news of … Continue reading